कृष्ण तिवारी, बेल्जियम
नेपालको इतिहासमा नेपालका राजनैतिक पार्टीहरुको विचमा राष्ट्रिय सहमति र सहकार्यको इतिहास त्यति लामो छैन । निरंकुश केन्दि्रकृत सामान्तबादी राजतन्त्रात्मक शासन प्रणाली र सो अन्तरगत रहेको सरकारले विगतका दिनमा गरेको नेकपा माओवादीको जनयुद्ध प्रतिको बर्वर दमन तथा तत्कालिन सात राजनीतिक दलहरुको सरकारलाई हालका गद्यीच्युत राजा ज्ञानेन्दले शत्ता बाट अपदस्त गरि शत्ता आफ्नो हातमा लिई जनता र नेताहरुको धरपकड गर्ने दमनकारी कदम नै उसको पतनको आखिरी कारण बन्न पुग्यो । जनयुद्धको विकास, वर्गसंघर्षले विकास गराएको जनचेतना, एवं समाजको अग्रगामी परिवर्तनकेा आवश्यकताले गर्दा पुरानो शक्ता समिकरणमा परिवर्तन भयो । त्यही विशिष्ट वस्तुगत अवस्थाको फलस्वरुप २२ नोभेम्वर २००५ - ७ मंसीर २०६२ ) मा ने.क.पा.-माओवादी) र तल्कालिन संसदवादी ७ राजनैतिक शक्तिका विच १२ वुँदे समझदारी कायम भएको थियो । यो नै निरंकुशताविरोधी राजनीतिक शक्तिहरु वीच कायम गरिएको पहिलो सहमतिको संस्कृति थियो । नेकपा माओवादी पार्टीको १० वर्षे जनयुद्धको जगबाट १२ वुँदे समझदारीमा टेकेर २००६ को १९ दिने अपि्रल आन्दोलन उत्कर्षमा पुगेको थियो । उक्त आन्दोलनको अभिव्यक्ति,इच्छा, मर्म र भावना समान्ती राजतन्त्र सिधै अन्त्य र गणतन्त्रको घोषणा गर्नु नै थियो ,जुन अनुरुप नै २८ मेई २००८ अर्थात -१५ जेष्ठ २०६५) तारिखका दिनबाट नेपालमा संविधान सभाको पहिलो वैठकद्धारा नेपाल संघिय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतान्त्रिक राज्यको रुपमा घोषित भयो ।त्यसपछि ऐतिहासिक संविधानसभा निर्वाचनबाट २५ वटा राजनीतिक दल संविधानसभामा उपस्थित हुन सफल भए । त्यस निर्वाचनबाट कुनै पनि राजनीतिक पार्टीले सरकार निर्माण गर्न सक्ने स्पष्ट बहुमत ल्याउन सकेनन । संविधान सभाको निर्वाचनमा सबैभन्दा बढी जनमतप्राप्त नेकपा माओवादी पार्टीको नेतृत्वमा अन्य दलहरुको सहभागिता रहने गरि सहमतिय ढंगले सरकारको निर्माण गर्न जनताले म्याण्डेट दिए अनुरुप एमाले,मधेसी जनअधिकार फोरम र नेपाल सदभावना पार्टीसमेतको संलग्नतामा संयुtm सरकार गठन भयो । संविधान सभामा दोश्रो दलको हैसियतमा रहेको नेपाली कांग्रेस प्रतिपक्षमा बस्ने निर्णयमा पुग्यो । शत्तामा बस्न नपाएपछि बाँच्नै नसक्ने संस्कृतिमा हुर्किदै आएको नेपाली कांग्रेस सत्ता छट्पटीका कारण सत्तारुढ दलहरुले संयुक्त सरकारमा सामेल हुन आग्रह गरिरहदा पनि आएको छैन् । नेपाली कांगे्रसले माओवादी नेतृत्वको सरकारलाई गिराएर आफ्नै नेतृत्वमा सरकार चलाउने भित्री नियत राख्दै आएको आएको छ र यसमा शत्तापक्षको घटक एमालेको एउटा खेमा पनि घांटी जोडेर संगै हिंडेको छ । यहि सत्ताको तिर्सनाले दिल्ली पुगेका नेपाली कांग्रेसका सभापति गिरिजा प्रसाद कोइराला र पारिवारिक भ्रमणका नाउंमा भारत गएका गद्दीच्युत राजा ज्ञानेन्द्र शाह, विविध रुपमा गएका नेकपा एमालेका नेताहरुको आवागमन सत्ता प्रतिगमनको तानाबानाको लागि थियो ।तर भारतिय शासकहरुले नेपाली जनताको पक्षमा रहेको माओवादीको नेतृत्वको संचालित संयुक्त सरकारमा सामेल हुन सल्लाह दिएका कारणले होला उनिहरु रित्तै हात नेपाल फर्के । उनीहरुले सोचेको तानाबाना अहिले यो पटक सार्थक बन्न सकेन । नेपालमा भइरहेको दिगोशान्ति प्रकि्रयाको थालनी,नयाँ संविधान निर्माण,सेना समायोजन गर्ने जस्ता कार्यमा माओवादी नेतृत्व सरकारलाई गिराएर राजनीतिक समिकरण बदलेमा ठूलो दुर्घटना हुन सक्ने छ ।अहिले नेपालमा राजनीतिक अस्थिरता पैदा गरेर फाईदा लुट्न चाहने प्रतिगामी र यथास्थितिबादी शक्तिहरु दिल्ली जमघट पछिको परिणाम बाट थप निराश बन्न बाध्य भएका छन् ।
नयाँ नेपालका लागि नेपाली जनताको त्याग, वलिदान तथा शहिदहरुको सपना साकार पार्ने नयाँ युगको बाटोमा मुलुक प्रवेश गरिसकेकोले आज सबैका लागि गणतन्त्रको संस्थागत गर्नु सबैभन्दा महत्वपूर्ण छ । सम्पूर्ण राजनितिक दल तथा नागरिक समाज र जनता एकबद्ध भएर अगाडि बढ्नु आजको माग र आवश्यकता नै रहेको छ । जनताको भावनालाई आत्मसात गर्दै जानुपर्नेमा मुख्य मुद्धामा सो नभै ठिक उल्टो अहिले नयाँ संविधान निर्माण तर्फ भन्दा शक्ता आफ्नो हातमा कसरी लिने भन्ने चलखेलमा शत्तामा रहेका केहि दल सरकारमा बसेर र नरहेका दलहरु पनि सडक, सदनमा साना साना घटना र विषयहरुमा अड्को थापी प्रतिपक्षको भुमिकाको गतिविधिमा सरिक छन।

प्रतिपक्षको रुपमा रहेको नेपाली कांग्रेस तथा तमलोपा लगायतका राजनिितक शक्तिहरुले बलेको आगोमा घिउ थप्ने कार्य गरि सहमतिय राजनीतिको दुरीलाई टाढा बनाएका छन । यस्ता विषयहरुलाई प्रमुख मुद्धा बनाई अहिले पनि राजनीतिक दलहरु पार्टीगत रुपमा प्रधानमन्त्री देखि शक्ता भागबण्डाका लागि देशी तथा विदेशी शक्ती केन्द्रमा गुहार गरिरहेका छन् । जनताको भावना र मर्म विपरित देशिय सामन्तबादीका अनुयायी तथा विदेशी शक्तिको ईशारामा नेपालको राजनैतिक घटनाक्रम अगाडि बढिरहेका छन् । नेपालका केहि राजनीतिक शक्तिहरु राष्ट्र, राष्ट्रियता, शान्ति ,विभिन्न जनजाति, भाषा भाषी, मधेशी ,महीला ,दलित तथा विपन्न वर्गको अधिकारको ग्यारेन्टी गर्नसक्ने स्वाधीन तथा जनमुखी संघीय ढाँचा सहितको गणतन्त्रात्मक जनमुखीसंविधान बनाउने जिम्मेवारीमा भन्दा पनि आफ्नो राजनीतिक भविष्य कसरी जोगाउने भन्नेमा बढि चिन्तित छन । सरकारको नेतृत्वमा रहेको एकिकृत नेकपा माओवादीलाई एक्ल्याउन,प्रतिशोधपूर्ण,संकिर्ण,स्वार्थी खेलमा यथास्थिति र परिवर्तन विरोधी शक्तिहरु अहिले फेरि तंछाड मछाड गर्न लागिरहेको र घेराबन्दी गर्न तल्लिन छन् ।यस्ता प्रतिसोध र स्वार्थी खेलको गठबन्धन फेरि दोहोरिने हो भने निश्चित रुपमा यसले मुलुकलाई राहात दिनुको साटो सिक्किमीकरणको दिशामा पुर्‍याउने छ । शक्ता र शक्तिका लागि जुनसुकै प्रकारका व्यक्ति समूहसंग अप्राकृतिक र गैरराजनैतिक खेल खेल्न पुरानो संसदिय कालमा बानी परेका केहि प्रमुख संसदबादी दलहरु त्यहि पुरानो संस्कृतिलाई दोहोर्याउन चाहिरहेका छन् । जुन घटनाका उपजहरु अहिलेको माओवादीको नेतृत्वको सरकार असफल बनाउन मात्र नभै पार्टीहरुकोवीचकोे सहमतिय राजनीतिलाई तोड्ने र जटिलतामा धकेल्नु नै हो । अहिले नेपाली जनताको सुनौलो भविष्य निर्माण, नयाँ जनसंविधान निर्माणमा जनताका हक अधिकारहरु प्रत्याभुति गर्न, नयाँ नेपालको परिकल्पना, विस्तृत शान्ति सम्झौताको पालना गर्ने विषय विषम चुनौतिको घेरा भित्र पर्न थालेका छन् । वर्तमान अबस्थामा राज्य संचालन गर्न, सामन्तवादका सबै प्रकारका अवशेषलाई निर्मूल पार्न,राज्यको पुनर्संरचना गरी संघीय गणराज्यको निमांण गर्न,जनताको भावनाअनुरुप नयाँ जनसंविधान निर्माण गर्न र संघीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्रको संस्थागत विकासको थालनी गर्न राष्ट्रिय सहमति र सहकार्य विना सम्भब छैन् ।

मुलुक संक्रमणकालीन अबस्थामा गुजि्ररहेकोले यसको व्यवस्थापन,दिगो शान्तिको स्थायित्व प्रदान गर्ने,नयाँ जनसंविधान निर्माण गरेर संमृद्धशाली नयाँ नेपाल निर्माण गर्न ,संघिय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्रात्मक राज्यव्यबस्थालाई संस्थागत विकास गर्ने महान लक्ष्य पुरा नगरुन्जेल नेपालका राजनीतिक दलहरुवीचको सहमति र सहकार्यको विकल्प छैन् । यस बाटोमा मुलुकलाई डोर्‍याउनका निम्ति राजनीतिक पार्टीहरुका नेताहरुमा रहंदै आएको सामन्तवादी चिन्तनलाई फ्याँकेर लोकतान्त्रिक र परिवर्तनको नयां सोच र संस्कारको विकास हुनु आबश्यक छ । । यसै सन्दर्भमा नेपाली जनताको पक्षमा बन्ने जनसंविधान, नेपालको राष्ट्रियता,जनजिवनको सवालमा गरिने आन्दोलनहरुमा स्वदेशमा मात्र नभै विदेशमा रहेका सबै प्रवाशी नेपालीहरुले पनि अझ बढि संगठित भै सहयोग र समर्थन गर्न आबश्यकता र जिम्मेवारी रहेको हुन्छ । सो अनुसार सबैपक्ष बाट देशका लागि सहयोग गर्नु जरुरी छ ।

यसर्थ, यहां एउटा हेक्का राख्नै पर्ने कुरा यो छ कि जनसंविधान बनाउने महान कार्यमा बाधा खडा गर्ने शक्ति, राष्ट्रियता, भौगोलिक अखण्डतामा कंहि कतैबाट गम्भिर आंच र आघात हुने कि्रयाकलाप गर्नेलाई राष्ट्रघाति र देशद्रोहीका रुपमा नेपाली भूमि बाट त्यस्ता शक्तिहरुलाई सदाका लागि बिदाई गर्न सचेत नेपाली जनता अब पछि पर्ने छैनन् । शान्तिपूर्ण नयाँ नेपालको निर्माण गर्न आम जनता राजनीतिक पार्टीहरु एकबद्ध र लामबद्ध हुन जरुरी छ ।

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नेपाली लोकतान्त्रिक गणतान्त्रिक मोर्चा,बेल्जियम

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कृष्ण तिवारी
मार्च, २८ बेल्जियम
गैर आवसिय नेपालीहरुको संगठन एनआरएन को स्थापना पछि र यसका गतिविधी सुरु भएपछि प्रवाशमा रहेर यो पङतीकारले पनि यस्लाइ नजिकवाट अध्ययन गर्दै आइरहेको छ । नेपालको तत्कालिन राजनैतिक,समाजिक, आर्थिक परिवेशमा नेपालीहरुका समस्या समाधानको कुनै राजनीतिक निकासको टुंगोमा नपुगिरहेको अवस्थामा गुजि्ररहेको थियो । त्यसवेला गैर आवासिय नेपालीहरुले देशको आर्थिक र सामाजिक पक्षमा केही योगदान गर्ने कुरा आवश्यक हुदाहुदै पनि राजनैतिक पक्ष महत्वपुर्ण रहेको थियो । कुनै पनि देशमा आर्थिक विकासको लागि राजनीतिक स्थिरता र स्थायी शान्तिको आवश्यकताको साथै त्यो देशको सरकारको देश सुहाउंदो आर्थिक योजना र त्यसलाइ लागु गर्ने अठोटको आवश्यकता रहेको हुन्छ । नेपालमा दशवर्षे जनयुद्ध र शान्तिपुर्ण १९ दिने जनसंघर्षको समायोजनको फलस्वरुप सम्पन्न दोस्रो जनआन्दोलनले नेपालमा संघिय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतान्त्रिक राज्यव्यवस्था स्थापना गरेर नेपाली जनताको सम्पूर्ण समस्याहरुलाइ सम्वोधन गर्ने संविधानको निर्माण गर्ने दिशा तर्फ अहिले देश अघि वढिरहेको छ । संविधान सभाको निर्वाचन पछि सामन्तवादी राजतन्त्रको अन्त र संघिय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपालको स्थापना भए तापनि सामन्तवादी संरचना र अवशेषहरु भने अझै कायमै छन । यो नयां परिवेशमा लोकतान्त्रिक पद्धतिवाट आएको सरकारी निति तथा कार्यक्रम अनुरुप देशभित्र तथा देश वाहिर रहेका नेपालीहरु सवैको रचनात्मक सहभागिता र सकि्रयताले मात्र नयां नेपालको निर्माण सम्भव हुन सक्दछ ।
त्यसकारण वर्तमान अवस्थामा देश भित्र मात्र नभइ विदेशमा रहेका गैर आवसिय नेपालीहरुले पनि राष्ट्रिय पूंजिको विकासको लागि समावेशी ढंगले सहभागी भइ वर्तमान नेपाल सरकार संग समन्वय गर्दै गैर आवसिय नेपालीहरुले आर्जन गरेको पूंजिलाइ वर्तमान सरकारले लिएको आर्थिक निती पव्लीक,प्राइभेट पार्टनरसिपको अवधारणा भित्र रहेर हाम्रो देश सुहाउंदो आर्थिक विकासको योजनामा आम जनताको सहभागितालाइ प्रोत्साहित गर्दै साना,मझौला तथा ठुला र तत्कालिन तथा दिर्घकालिन आर्थिक विकासका योजनाहरुमा आम जनताको लगानीको सुरक्षा तथा ग्यारेन्टी सम्वन्धि निती नियम वनाएर योजनावद्ध ढंगले क्रमस सहभागी गराउंदै लैजानु पर्ने सबै सचेत प्रवासी नेपालीको दायित्व र जिम्मेवारी रहेको हुन्छ र यसका लागि सबै पक्षले एन आर एन लाई प्रभावकारी ढंगले संस्थागत रुपमा लान जरुरी छ र यही विशिष्टतामा रहेर विविध कारणले विदेशिएका नेपाली समुदायमा नेपालको सुन्दर भविष्यका लागि देशको अगाध माया प्रतिको लगामलाई स्थायी रुपमा निमार्ण गने उद्धेश्यमा रहि विदेशमा रहेका नेपालीहरुका विचमै संगठित हुने प्रकृयाको थालनी हुंदा यो गैह्र आवासीय नेपाली संघको जन्म हुन पुग्यो । अहिले एन आर एन ले आˆनो पांच वर्षको कार्यकालको समय पुग्दा नपुग्दै विश्वका करिव ४५ भन्दा बढी देशमा आफ्नो उपस्थितिको निर्माण गरिसकेको छ । तर कतिपय देशहरुमा रहेका एन आर एन को विगत र बर्तमान कि्रयाकलाप र भुमिकाले सिंगो एन आर एन संस्थालाई नै बदनाम गराएका छन । एन आर एन लाई कसैबाट प्राप्त विर्ता,दान दातव्यबाट र पैतृक सम्पति पकेटमा राख्ने निजी स्वार्थ पुरा गर्ने साधन, श्रोत र राजनिति गर्ने अखडाको रुपमा लिन खोजिरहेको कुरा यसको ऐतिहांसिक पृष्ठभुमिले उजागर गराई रहेको छन र त्यस किसिमको इतिहासको गलत रवैयाको धङधनि अहिलेको नयाँ परिवेश र नयाँ मोडमा गर्न खोज्नु स्वयं मुर्खता र भुलको सिकार बन्नु भन्दा अरु केहि नहोला । अहिलको नयाँ विशिष्टतामा यस्ता घटिया स्वार्थ शिद्धगर्न चाहने अमुक शक्तिहरुले निरन्तरता गर्न खोजेमा र गरेमा इतिहास र वर्तमानले मुक्ति तथा क्षमा दिने छैन ।
यसै सन्दर्भमा युरोपको राजधानी मानिने बेल्जियममा पनि सन २००६मा गैर आवासिय संघ,वेल्जियम स्थापित भइ आˆनो एक कार्यकाल पुरा गरिसकेको छ । बेल्जियममा गैर आबासिय संगठनको विगत पृष्ठभूमि बुझ्ने हो भने यसको स्थापना कालदेखिनै पङतीकारले जाने बुझे अनुसार गलत मनसायबाट अभिप्रेरित भै अगाडि बढेका कारण र सोही अनुरुपका गतिविधि गरिआएको कारण नत विवाद रहित रहन सक्यो नत नेपाली जनमानसमा प्रभावकारी बन्न पुग्यो । योसंस्था संथागत रुपमा नभै केहि व्यक्तिको एकतर्फी निजी जस्तो संस्थाको रुप धारण गर्दै आएको कारणले पनि बेल्जियममा रहेका नेपालीहरुमा विचमा यसको प्रभाब नकरात्मक रह्यो । करिब करिब विघटनको संघारमा पुगेको संघलाई निकै सुझबुझका साथ दुर्घटनाबाट बचाएर ल्याइएता पनि निरन्तर षडयण्त्रका तानाबुना र चलखेल चलिरहेका छन् । यस अबश्थामा रहेको एन आर एन बेल्जियम लाई संस्थागत रुपमा विकास गर्न र गतिशील पार्न १२ अक्टोवर २००८ का दिन सम्पन्न प्रजातान्त्रिक पद्धति अनुरुप सम्पन्न निर्वाचनमा यथास्थितिवादी सोच र परिवर्तनकारी नयां सोच र विचार भएका शक्तिहरुको विचमा निर्वाचनको माध्यमबाट २१ सदस्यिय नयां मिश्रति कार्यसमिति बन्न पुग्यो । निर्वाचनबाट निर्वाचित भएको वर्तमान कार्यसमितिको नेतृत्व र यस संग सरोकार रहेका पदाधिकारीका विचमा साना साना झिना मसिना विषय र प्रस्ताव सल्लाहकार समिति,संरक्षक को राख्ने,को बनाउने जस्ता विषय र एजेण्डामा अल्मलिने र विच बाटोमा नै हराएको छ । बेल्जियमबासी नेपालीहरुको गौरवमय अभिमतको म्याण्डेटलाई आत्मसाथ गरि अगाडि बढ्ने प्रतिवद्धता र विश्वासमा अडिक नभै संस्थाको उद्धेश्य र लक्ष्य प्राप्ती कसरी गर्ने,के हुने र रहने भन्ने तिर नलागिे आगामी दिनको भावि कार्यक्रम के हुने त्यस तर्फ चासो दिएको देखिदैन बरु अमुक राजनैतिक पार्टी तथा शक्तिको इशारा र निर्देशनमा आफ्नो व्यक्तित्व र अस्तित्वमा प्रश्नवाचक चिन्ह लाग्ने गरि अगाडि बढि रहेको गतिविधि, कार्य र कदमले बेल्जियमको मात्र नभै सिंगो एन आर एन केन्द्रको पनि साख गिराएको छ । वेल्जियमबासी प्रगतिशील नेपालीहरुद्धारा संजिवनीदान पाएको एन आर एन र सो को नेतृत्व र सरोकारवाला समिति ६ महिना नपुग्दै फेरि धरापमा परि कुनै दिन संघको अस्थित्वमा नै प्रश्नवाचक लाग्न सक्ने स्थितिमा उन्मुख छ र जुन कुरा बेल्जियमबासी गैर आबासिय नेपालीहरुका लागि दुर्भाग्यको दिन हुने छ ।
गैर आबासिय नेपाली बेल्जियमका करिव उपस्थित कुल सदस्य संख्याको ८६ प्रतिशत सदस्य संख्याले नव निर्वाचित कार्य समितिको चयन गर्ने दिन देखि बन्द शत्र सम्ममा भएका घटिया जंकी र हातपात गर्ने दुत्साहस समेतको तैयारीको गतिविधि,क्रियाकलाप तथा एकतर्फी रुपमा तैयारी रुपमा ल्याइएका प्रस्ताव तथा विषयहरु उपरमा गरिएको घटनाक्रमले पनि शान्तिपूर्ण र प्रजातान्त्रिक पद्धतिको बाटो नभै दादागिरी पद्धतिले जसरी पनि आफ्नो पोल्टामा र अनुकुलतामा ल्याउन खोजिएको पुष्टि गर्दथ्यो । त्यसबेला वातावरण असहजता र असमान्य परिस्थितिमा पुगेको थियो ।त्यसबेलाको विषम परिस्थितिको निकासको विकल्पमा गरिएका भनिएका गम्भिर त्रुटिपूर्ण निर्णयले एन आर एन बेल्जियमका साधारण सदस्यहरुको मौलिक हकमा बन्देज लगाएको छ । जुन कार्य सिंगो एन आर एन संस्थाको भावना ,निति र विधान विपरितका गम्भिर त्रुटिपूर्ण कार्य भएका छन । गैर आवासिय संगठनको मुल्य मान्यता,सिद्धान्त ,निति र विधान अनुसार एन आर एन का जो कोहि साधारण सदस्य पनि आफु रहेको देशको आइ सी सी सदस्यमा भाग लिन पाउने अधिकार रहन्छ । जुन विषय बेल्जियमको एन आर एन मा पनि तड्कारो गम्भिर र मुख्य चर्चाको विषय यहि बनेको छ । बेल्जियममा मेडिया तथा छापाहरुमा आएका समाचार र कुत्सित मनसायबाट प्रेरित केहि व्यक्तिहरुको हवला दिएर यो पनि भनिएका छन कि साधारण सभाले गरेको निर्णय विधान सरह हुन्छ र यसमा विधानले केहि असर पार्न सक्दैन भनि कुतर्कहरु अगाडि आएका पनि छन् । यदि त्यसो हो भने भोलिका दिनमा एन आर एन प्रभाबमा पारेर बास्तविक कालो रङ्गलाई सेतो रङ्ग हो भनेर सच्चाईमा चक्मा दिएर संघ अगाडि बढाउन चाहनु भएको हो कि ? कि यो पनि गर्न मिल्ने ? म यो प्रश्न उपरमा प्रतिपश्न गर्न चाहान्छु ।अर्को रोचक विषय यो पनि छ कि बेल्जियमको तत्कालिन विघटित कार्यसमितिको हवलाबाट प्रकाशित समाचार अनुसार एन आर एन आइ सी सी सदस्यको पदावधि बांकी रहदा रहदै आइ सी सी सदस्यता खारेज गरिएको भन्ने जस्ता हांस्यास्पद र लज्जास्पद गतिविधिले पनि विगतमा बेल्जियममा एन आर एन को हविगतलाई छर्लङ्ग पारेको छ ।
अहिलेको एन आर एन को कार्यप्रगतिमा कार्यसमितिको पटक पटक बैठक बसी कुनै ठोस निष्र्कषमा पुग्न नसक्नु, ८०० भन्दा बढि मतदाताले चुनेका र भएका सदस्यहरुलाई अर्पूण भन्दै कसैको इशारा र निर्देशनमा मनोमानी ढंगले ४ सदस्य मनोनित गरेर ल्याएपछि मात्रै कार्यसमितिको बैद्यता लिन खोज्नु,सार्वजनिक ठांउमा व्यक्तिगत सहयोगका लिष्ट प्रस्तुत गर्दै व्यक्तिवादको हावी दिंदै सिंगो संघको गरिमालाई कुल्चेर हिड्नु नेतृत्वमा प्रश्नवाचक हो ? यो गम्भीर भुल हो र यस्तो भुल रहि रहेमा एन आर एन बेल्जियम कुनै दिन पुनः विघटनको संघारमा पुग्ने कुरामा बेल्जियमका नेपालीहरु चिन्तित बनेका छन । नेपालको नयाँ बन्न लागेको संविधान निर्माणका लागि एन आर एन का विभिन्न देशका अध्यक्षहरु सदस्य रहेको संविधान सुझाव समिति बनेको सन्दर्भमा राय संकलनका लागि ९ मार्च २००९ का दिन आव्हान नागरिक सुझाव समितिको कार्यक्रममा ४ जनाको मात्र सहभागिताको रिपोर्टले पनि जनमानसमा वर्तमान एन आर एन नेतृत्वको असक्षमता हो भन्ने कुराको पुष्टि गरेको छ ।
यसर्थ गैर आवासिय संगठनको मुल्य मान्यता,सिद्धान्त ,निति र विधान विरुद्ध नलागि यस अन्तरगत रहि नागरिकको मौलिक हक अन्तरगतको हरेक क्षेत्रमा भाग लिन पाउने नैसर्गिक अधिकारबाट बन्चित हुने खालका यस्ता गम्भिर गल्तिका निर्णय सच्चाउन र विधानत कार्य गर्न समग्र गैर आवासिय नेपालीहरु, विश्वभरिका एन आर एन को गम्भिर ध्यान आकृष्ट होस ।
यि माथि उल्लेखित घटनाक्रमले एन आर एन बेल्जियमका समस्त सदस्यहरुलाई चिन्तित बनाएको छ भने अर्को तर्फ यसका लागि जनमानसले नयां बाटो र विकल्पको खोजी के ? भन्ने सवालहरु च्ार्चामा आइरहेका छन । यस सन्दर्भमा म पनि एन आर एन बेल्जियमको साधारण सदस्य भएका नाताले हाम्रो संघ धमिराले खाएको काठ नवनोस नयाँ नेपालको विकास गर्न आफ्ना भावी कार्यक्रम अगाडि सारेर त्रुटिपूर्ण निर्णयहरुमा पुर्नविचार गरि तत्काल सच्चाएर संस्थागत संस्थाको रुपमा लगी अमुक राजनैतिक पार्टी र शक्तिको इशारा र निर्देशनमा आफ्नो अस्तित्वमा प्रश्नवाचक चिन्ह लाग्ने गरि अगाडि नबढ्न र एन आर एन बेल्जियमको साख उचो पार्न ध्यान, दृष्टि पुगोस अनि शसक्त जुझारु एन आर एन बनोस भन्ने कामना सहित गहन जिम्मेवारी बहनहोस ।
अस्तु………………………….

साधारण सदस्य
गैर आवासिय नेपाली संघ,बेल्जियम

After four months in the saddle, Pakistan’s new civilian government still gives the impression of having mounted a wild horse. On several occasions in recent weeks it has embarrassed itself by issuing important orders and statements it has had to retract within hours. And critics say it has displayed little skill in managing either food inflation, virtual anarchy in the natural gas market or the country’s ever worsening power crisis.
Meanwhile, the ruling alliance that was formed after the February elections appears to have degenerated into an unsavoury union of strange bedfellows.
But there are some sectors, traditionally handled by the army, where life goes on as usual.
The military statistics released by the Pentagon late last month suggest an almost 40% increase in attacks by Taleban militants in eastern Afghanistan.

Not in control

Nato forces believe this is due to increased infiltration by militants from sanctuaries in the adjacent Pakistani tribal region.
On the eastern front, the peace process with India seems to be coming under stress following recent border clashes between Indian and Pakistani troops across the Line of Control (LoC) that divides the disputed Kashmir region.
The response of Pakistan’s pro-establishment analysts is - the militants are not in our control, and the Indians are encircling us both from their spy stations in Afghanistan and from across the Line of Control in Kashmir.

Mr Gilani put up a brave face during his visit to the US

But observers in India and Afghanistan believe that while the new Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government struggles to find its feet, the country’s top intelligence outfit, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), is resurrecting the Indian threat as a means to divert attention from its “strategic assets” - Islamic militants - in the region.
The Pakistani government, led by the reputedly anti-establishment PPP, appears to be in two minds on the issue.
During his visit to the United States this week, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani put on a brave face amid allegations that the ISI was tipping off militants about the moves of coalition troops in Afghanistan.
“Actually, ISI is a great institution,” he told CBS in an interview. “As far as this is concerned [that] some of them… are sympathetic to the militants, this is not believable.”
But just days before this statement, Mr Gilani himself had issued an order putting the ISI under the Interior Ministry, a step clearly intended to bring the service under more direct civilian control.
Eyebrows were raised when he had to rescind that order within six hours, presumably after a shocked military ratcheted up the pressure on his government.

Directly accused

Apparently, the PPP was forced to back down from a position it had initially considered justified in view of the storm raised in the aftermath of the 7 July suicide bombing of the Indian embassy in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai directly blamed the ISI for the attack.
Soon afterwards, the Indian national security adviser, MK Narayanan, said his government had “a fair amount of intelligence” suggesting that the ISI had been involved in the attack.
President Karzai has blamed the Indian embassy attack on ISI
On Wednesday, Pakistan’s Defence Minister, Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar, publicly admitted that US President George Bush had shared with Mr Gilani his annoyance that some ISI elements were leaking to militants intelligence the US had shared with Pakistan.

A day later, the New York Times quoted American officials saying they had intercepted communications between Pakistani intelligence officers and militants who carried out the Kabul bombing.
Meanwhile, the Indians accuse Pakistan of stepping up the pressure on the LoC to facilitate infiltration of militants into Indian-administered Kashmir.

Pakistan denies all these charges.
But there are credible reports of renewed militant presence in some areas on the Pakistani side of the LoC since April, soon after Mr Gilani was sworn in as prime minister.

Clear choice

Last month, several dozen women in the town of Athmuqam in the Neelum valley marched to an army post and told officers there that the militants had renewed their activities in the area and local people feared that the ceasefire, in force since November 2003, would break down.
“All we want is peace, we don’t want to spend the rest of our lives living in bunkers like we did before the ceasefire,” one of the marchers, Sarwar Jan, told the BBC Urdu service.
Many in Kashmir and north-western Pakistan believe this to be a dangerous game which a popular political force like the PPP must guard against.

The party has a clear choice.
It can own up to the army’s traditional perception of the “Indian threat” and settle down for a secondary role in the government.
Or, it can order an entirely fresh assessment of whether India poses a real and immediate military threat to Pakistan at all.
The first choice is likely to make life easy but inglorious for the PPP, whereas the second will require it to first learn to tame the horse it has mounted.

कृष्ण तिवारी

सदस्य, संयुक्त नेपाली मोर्चा युरोप

नेपाली जनताले संबिधानसभा मार्फत मई २८ तारिखका दिनबाट नेपालमा संविधान सभाको पहिलो वैठकद्वारा २४० वर्षे निरंकुश केन्द्रिकृत सामान्तबादी राजतन्त्रात्मक शासन प्रणाली विधिवत अन्त्य गर्दै ,संघिय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतान्त्रिक राज्य घोषणा गरि नेपाली जनताको त्याग, वलिदान तथा शहिदहरुको सपना साकारपार्ने नयाँ युगको बाटोमा प्रवेश गरेका छन्‍ । गणतन्त्र स्थापनाको साथसाथै यसलाई संस्थागत गर्नु सबैभन्दामहत्वपुर्ण भएकोले सम्पुर्ण राजनितिक दल तथा नागरिक समाज र जनता एकबद्ध भएर अगाडि बढ्‍नु आजको माग र आवश्यकता नै रहेको छ । नेपाली जनताले संबिधान सभाको निर्वाचनमा दिएको जनमतको कदर गर्दै सबैभन्दा बढी जनमतप्राप्त नेकपा माओवादी पार्टीको नेतृत्व सर्वपक्षिय सरकारको निर्माण गर्न अन्य दलहरुको पनि सहभागिता रहने गरि जनताको म्याण्डेट प्राप्त भएको छ । पार्टीहरुको राजनीतिक सहमति अनुसार अन्तरिम संविधान संशोधन देखि राष्ट्रपति, उपराष्ट्रपति, संविधानसभाध्यक्ष, उपाध्यक्ष र नयाँसंविधान निर्माणका लागि जनताको भावनालाई आत्मसात गर्दै जानु पर्नेमा मुख्य मुद्धामा सो नभै ठिक उल्टो अहिले जनताको भावना र मर्म विपरित देशिय तथा विदेशी शक्तिको इशारामा नेपालको राजनैतिक घटनाक्रमहरु अगाडि बढिरहेका छन्‍ ।

संविधानसभाको जनादेशअनुरुप माओवादीलाई शत्ता हस्तान्तरण गर्‍यो भने आफ्नो राजनीतिक भविष्य दुई बर्षमै अन्धकार र समाप्त हुने भय र त्रास बोकेका कांग्रेस र एमाले यतिवेला राष्ट्र, राष्ट्रियता, शान्ति र लोकतन्त्रभन्दा पनि आफ्नै भविष्यको बारेमा बढि चिन्तित देखिन्छन्‍ । यहि चिन्ताकै कारण उनिहरु फोरमसंग रातारात अराजनैतिक प्रकारको माओवादी विरोधी मोर्चा निर्माण गरि राष्ट्रपति र उपराष्ट्रपतिको निर्वाचनको प्रकृयाको शुरुआत नै अपवित्र गठबन्धन बन्न पुग्यो । के यो गठबन्धनले जनादेशको सम्मान गर्दछ ? के यो गठबन्धनले शान्ति प्रक्रियालाई तार्किक निश्कर्षमा पुर्‍याउछ ? के यो गठबन्धनले दुइबर्ष भित्रै नयाँ संविधान निर्माण गरी राज्यको पूनसंरचना र नयाँ नेपाल निर्माण गर्ला ? के माओबादीको उपस्थिति विना नयां संविधान बन्छ? के यि तिनदलको अप्रकृतिक गठबन्धनले नयां नेपालको निमाण सम्भब छ ? आदि जस्ता थुप्रै प्रश्नका जिज्ञासाहरु अहिले नेपाली जनताको विचमा उठ्‍न थालेका छन् । यसको जवाफ गठबन्धकका नायकहरुले दिन जरुरी छ र जुन प्रश्नहरुको जवाफ अनुत्तरित नैहुदा नेपाली जनताहरु पुन: चिन्तामा परेका छन्‍ । माओवादीलाई एक्ल्याउन, प्रतिशोधपूर्ण, संकिर्ण, स्वार्थी खेलमा यथास्थिति र परिवर्तन विरोधी एमाले, कांग्रेस तथा फोरम बिचको घेराबन्दी गर्न गरिएको अपवित्र गठबन्धनले मुलुकलाई राहात दिनुको साटो सिक्किमीकरणको दिशामा अगाडि बढाउन खोजेको देखिन्छ । शत्ता र शक्तिका लागि जुनसुकै प्रकारका व्यक्ति समूहसंग अप्राकृतिक र गैरराजनैतिक घृणित खेल खेल्न पुरानो संसदिय कालमा बानी परेको संसदबादी दल कांग्रेस र एमालेले राष्ट्रपति र उपराष्ट्रपतिको निर्वाचनमा त्यहि पुरानो संस्कृतिलाई दोहोर्‍याई छाडे । जुन घटनाले अहिले गठबन्धित पार्टीहरु र माओवादी पार्टीको बिचको सहमतिय राजनीति जटिल र धरापमा पारेको छ । यसै सन्दर्भमा राष्ट्रपति र उपराष्ट्रपति निर्वाचित भै सके पछि यही श्रावण ८ गते नेपालका नव निर्वाचित उपराष्ट्रपति परमानन्द झाले भारतको राष्ट्रभाषा हिन्दीमा पद तथा गोपनियताको सपथ ग्रहण गरेर नेपाली राष्ट्रभाषा र उनको आफ्नै मैथलि भाषाको ठूलो अवमूल्यन गरेका छन्‍ । नेपालको अन्तरिम संविधानमा व्यबस्था भए अनुसार राष्ट्रभाष वा आफ्नो मातृभाषामा गर्नु पर्ने संबैधानिक व्यबस्थाको समेत धज्जी उडाउंदै, हिजोका दिनमा कानूनको अपव्याख्या गरि न्याय क्षेत्रमा समेत बदनाम कमाउन सफल भै आएको राष्ट्रको दोश्रो स्थानको उच्च पदमा रहेका झाले हिन्दीमा सपथ गरेको कार्यले नेपाली राष्ट्रियतामा गम्भीर कुठाराघात गर्दै आफ्नो भारत परस्त चरित्र हो भन्ने कुरामा नेपाली जनता विच औपचारिक रुपमा पुष्टि तथा सावित गरेका छन्‍ । जुन यो राष्ट्रविरोधी कार्यलाई आज नेपालीहरु स्वदेश तथा विदेशबाट घोर निन्दा, भत्सर्ना तथा विरोधका कार्यक्रमहरु सार्बजनिक भएका छन् र नेपालमा जनताले देशव्यापी रुपमा लगातार राजीनामा माग र नेपाली भाषामा पून: सपथ लिन दबाब स्वरुप आन्दोलनको घोषणा गरि आन्दोलित भईरहेका छन् । नेपाल राष्ट्रविरोधी चिन्तन र सोच भएका व्यक्तिहरु राष्ट्रका अति महत्वपूर्ण पदमा रहंदा नेपाली राष्ट्रियतामाथि गम्भिर खतरा हुन सक्ने संभावनाप्रति हामी सबै स्वदेश तथा विदेशमा रहनु भएका सम्पूर्ण नेपाली सचेत र सजग हुन जरुरी छ ।

आज मूलुकमा गठबन्धनकारी राजनैतिक दलहरु नेपाली जनताकोपक्षमा गर्नु पर्ने काम र नयाँ संविधान निर्माण तर्फ भन्दा शत्ता आफ्नो हातमा कसरी लिने भन्ने चलखेलमा लागिरहेका छन्। पार्टीगत रुपमा प्रधानमन्त्री देखि शत्ता भागबण्डामा देशी तथा विदेशी शक्ती केन्द्रमा गुहार गरिरहेका छन्‍ । सरकार गठन प्रक्रियामा नव निर्वाचित राष्ट्रपतिले पनि प्रदत संबैधानिक अधिकार क्षेत्र भन्दा बाहिर गै परामर्शको नाममा सेरेमनियल राष्ट्रपति सक्रिय हुनुले कसको इसारामा के का लागि अनधिकृत राजनीतिक चलखेल गरिरहनु भएको छ ? यसले गम्भिर आशंका उब्जिएको छ । नेपालको अन्तरिम संविधानमा सरकार गठनका लागि तिनवटा मार्गहरु स्पष्ट किटान गरेको छ ।

धारा ३८ (१) बमोजिम राजनीतिक सहमतिको आधारमा प्रधानमन्त्रीको नेतृत्वमा मन्त्रीपरिषद् गठन हुने, सो हुन नसकेकोमा धारा ३८-२ को उपधारा (१) बमोजिम संविधानसभामा समान्य बहुमत जुटाउने दलको नेता प्रधानमन्त्री हुन सक्ने र सो हुन नसकेमा संविधानसभामा सबैभन्दा ठूलो दलले स्वत: सरकार गठनको अवसर पाउने विश्व प्रचलित लोकतान्त्रिक राज्यको मान्यता हो । तर अहिले मुलुकमा देखा परिरहेको राजनीतिक गठबन्धनका घटनाक्रमले राजनीतिक मान्यता र लक्ष्य विपरित उन्मुख र सरिक रहेको कारण नेपाली जनताको सुनौलो भविष्य निर्माण, नयाँसंविधान निर्माण र नयाँ नेपालको परिकल्पना विषम चुनौतिको घेरा भित्रको पर्दामा पर्न थालेको छ । विस्तृत शान्ति सम्झौताको पालना गर्न, नेपाली जनताको जनमतको कदरगर्न र सबै मूल्य मान्यता विपरित एमाले, कांग्रेस र फोरमका बिचमा गरिएको अपवित्र गठवन्धन तोडी नयां आधारमा नयां एकता निर्माण गरि माओवादीको नेतृत्वमा सहमतिको सरकारको निर्माण गरि जान सकेमा मात्र जनताका हक अधिकारहरु प्रत्याभुति हुन र बास्तविक नयाँनेपाल बन्न सक्ने छ । अबका दिनमा विगतमा जस्तो हत्या, हिंसाको राजनितिको सामना गर्न नपरोस र सम्पूर्ण राजनीतिक दल, नागरिक समाज र आम जनताहरु एकजुट भै गणतन्त्रको रक्षा गर्दै देश विकासको मार्गमा अघि वढी शान्तिपूर्ण नयाँ नेपालको निर्माण गर्न आम जनता राजनीतिक पार्टीहरु एकबद्ध हुन जरुरी छ । नेपालको राष्ट्रियता, भौगोलिक अखण्डतामा भावी दिनमा कहि कतैबाट गम्भिर आंच र आघात हुने क्रियाकलाप पाईएमा राष्ट्रघाति र देशद्रोहीका रुपमा नेपाली भूमि बाट सदाका लागि बिदाई गर्न सचेत नेपाली जनता अब पछि पर्ने छैनन्‍ । नेपाली जनताले गर्ने नेपालको राष्ट्रियता, जनजीवनको सवालमा गरिने आन्दोलनहरुमा विदेशमा रहेका हामी सबै प्रवाशी नेपालीहरुले अझ बढि संगठित भै सहयोग र समर्थन गर्न आबश्यकता र हाम्रो जिम्मेवारी रहने छ ।

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Nepal’s reclusive Maoist leader

Until now, Prachanda has rarely been seen in public
The leader of Nepal’s Maoist rebels, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, 52, is better known under his nom-de-guerre of Prachanda (Fierce One).
The former agriculture student, born in the Annapurna region of Nepal, is the undisputed leader of the Maoists, and supreme commander of their army.
He has led a bloody 10-year war against the monarchy in the impoverished Himalayan nation in which more than 13,000 people have been killed.
Until recently, very little was known about him. Nepalis knew Prachanda from only a couple of photographs.
The rebel leader told the BBC he has three daughters and a son, who all support the Maoist movement. His wife, whom he met through the party, is also a Maoist official.
‘School-teacher’
In the past, Nepali journalists would from time to time interview Prachanda’s widowed father, who himself had not seen his son for years.
The rebel leader was rarely seen in public and is believed to have frequently slipped between India and Nepal, over the long, porous border.

The Maoists derive their inspiration from Peru’s Shining Path rebels
But when he gave his first ever television interview, to the BBC in January, Prachanda looked more like the school teacher he once was - moustached, bespectacled and with a slight paunch.
The BBC’s Charles Haviland, who conducted the interview, said he came across as surprisingly mild-mannered and shy - more humorous than intimidating and without the charisma of some revolutionary leaders.
All this stands in sharp contrast to the perception of him as a ruthless leader responsible for executions and terrorising swathes of Nepal’s population.
His number two, Baburam Bhattarai, with a cloth cap and eagle eyes, and often seen flanking Prachanda, fits much more easily with the traditional view of what revolutionaries should look like.
But in a sign that his mild-manner could well conceal a tough interior, a year ago Prachanda expelled Dr Bhattarai and his wife from the party for accusing him of being power-hungry.
It took months for him to be reinstated.
Puritanical
The Maoists participated in the country’s first parliamentary elections in 1991 but their disenchantment with political squabbling and anger at the plight of the rural poor prompted them to take up arms.
Prachanda derived his inspiration from Peru’s Shining Path rebels and dreamt of setting up a communist republic.
He envisaged the erosion of class, caste and gender barriers.
But he has also been described as puritanical, outlawing alcohol, gambling and “vulgar literature” from India and the United States.
But as talks with the government are under way there are signs that he may be willing to compromise - even perhaps on the contentious issue of accepting a role for the king of Nepal if that is the will of the people.

2008-07-02,Wednesday

हिजो के थिएँ, म आज के भएँ ! सम्झेर ल्याउँदा मेरो हृदय सात चिरा परेर धुरुधुरु रुन्छ । हेर्दाहेर्दै, कहाली लाग्दालाग्दै म राजनीतिको गरिमामय शिखरबाट तल फोहोर फेदीमा झ्वाम्मै खसेँ । आफू परियो नास्तिक, इहलोकमा ‘हे हरि’ भनेर दुःखमा सहारा खोज्ने आधारसमेत मेरो केही रहेन । उदास जुँगामा हतास औँलाले ताउ लगाउँदै म घोत्लिन्छु, अढाइ करोड नेपालीमा सबैभन्दा अभागी जीव हामी दुईजना रहेछौँ । ज्ञानेन्द्र शाह र म माधवकुमार नेपाल । सँगसँगै यता मेरो बल्खुदरबारको सिंहासन ढल्यो, उता ज्ञानेन्द्रको नारानहिटी दरबारको सिंहासन घोप्टियो । यता म बल्खुदरबारको गजुरबाट पतीत भएँ, उता ज्ञानेन्द्र नारानहिटी दरबारबाट निकाला भए । चुनावमा लतारिँदा मेरालागि सिंहदरबारको ढोका बन्द भयो, सिंहासनबाट पछारिँदा ज्ञानेन्द्रका लागि नारानहिटी दरबारको द्वार बन्द भयो । मेरी आमा ! बरु ज्ञानेन्द्रले त कमसेकम सानै भए पनि नागार्जुन दरबार पाएका छन्, मेरा भागमा लोकको खिसिट्युरीसिवाय केही परेकोछैन ।

सम्झेर ल्याउँदा मलाई उदेक लाग्छ, ज्ञानेन्द्र र मेरो आदि र अन्त्य एकनासको रहन गयो । मलाई महासचिव पद योग्यताले, रोलक्रमलेे आएको होइन । यो अकस्मात् हुन गएको कमरेड मदनको हत्यापछि अपुतालीमा आएको थियो । ज्ञानेन्द्रलाई श्रीपेच परम्परागत योग्यताले, रोलक्रमले आएको होइन । दाजु वीरेन्द्रका छातीमा ‘स्वचालित हतियार अकस्मात् पड्किन गई’ अपुतालीमा त्यो आएको थियो । अपुताली पाउनेले पाएको जिनिस उल्फाको धन, फुपुको श्राद्ध गरेर स्वाहा पार्छ भन्छन् । नभन्दै त्यस्तै भयो । मेरो महासचिव पद लज्जास्पद ढंगले स्वाहा भयो । ज्ञानेन्द्रको सिंहासन लज्जास्पद ढंगले स्वाहा भयो । यस घडीमा, चरम दुःखको यस घडीमा, ज्ञानेन्द्र शाह नागार्जुन दरबारमा धुरुधुरु, म माधवकुमार नेपाल कोटेश्वरको निजी निवासमा धुरुधुरु !

जब सबैतिर हारेँ, मलाई नैतिकता भन्ने चिजको झल्याँस्स याद आयो । अनि नैतिकताको मन्त्र जप्दै महासचिव पदबाट मैले राजीनामा दिएँ । यसमा मेरो भित्री सोचाइ महान् थियो । मैले राजीनामा दिएपछि मेरो सिको गर्दै मजस्ता हरुवा केपी, ईश्वर, प्रदीप, रघुहरुले पनि आ-आप\mना पार्टी-पदबाट राजीनामा देलान् । अनि खालि ठाउँमा उत्तम विचार, उत्ताल जोस र जंगी जाँगर भएका कमरेडहरु आउलान् । अनि पार्टीको जर्जर ज्यानमा प्राण सञ्चार होला । तर, त्यस्तो भएन । यी कुर्सीका कीराहरु कुर्सीमै टाँसिइरहे । त्यो देख्दा हतारिएर बित्थामा राजीनामा दिएँछु भनेर मलाई पछुतो लाग्यो । यत्रो एमाले पार्टीको नैतिकताको सगर थाम्ने जिम्मा मेरैमात्र हो र ? अरूलाई लाज नलागे पनि हुने, मैलेमात्रै किन लाज मान्नुपर्ने ? एमालेलाई लतारेर पतनको बाटोमा ओरालो लगाएको मैले एक्लै हो र ? हे हरि !

छँदाखाँदाको महासचिव पद गयो, मसँग नभएको फुर्सद मलाई आयो । पदमा छँदा बिहान भाले बास्न नपाउँदै मेरो घर-दैलोमा पार्टीभित्रका चाकरी गर्ने र चुक्ली लाउनेहरुको धुइरो लाग्थ्यो । त्यो बेला मलाई भ्याई-नभ्याई थियो । कहिले कार्यकर्ताहरुलाई ज्ञान-बुद्धि दान गर्न भेलामा गयो । कहिले नारानहिटी दरबारबाट सकारात्मक संकेत आउला कि भनेर लोभी नजरले झ्यालबाट यसो चियाएर हेर्योट । कहिले दूतावासतिरबाट उर्दी आउँदा सात काम छाडेर उतै कुद्यो । कहिले रिपोर्टर्स क्लबमा भाषण ठोक्न हेलियो । कहिले मोदनाथ प्रश्रतिको पछि लागेर सीताराम प्रसाईँका छोराको बिहाभोज डम्प\mयाउन पुग्यो । कहिले सात दलको गाँड कोराकोरमा सामेल भयो । मलाई यतै भ्याई-नभ्याई, उतै भ्याई-नभ्याई ! तर अब त्यो सब लफडो छैन । मलाई फुर्सदै फुर्सद छ । त्यसैले अचेल म गहन आत्म-समीक्षातर्फ लहसिएको छु ।

म त हारेँ, हारेँ, मेरै कार्यकालमा हाम्रो एमाले पार्टी पनि नाइटासम्मै डुब्यो । अब बाँकी डुब्न के बेर ! यो डुबान के कति कारणले भएको हो ? मलाई लाग्थ्यो, एमालेसँग जबज नाउँको दिशा दिने, उज्यालो दिने अजेय अस्त्र छ । जबजले सधैँ एमालेको भलै भलो गर्छ । तर खै त ? महाकाली सन्धि गर्दा जबजलाई इतिहासको फड्के किनारमा साक्षी राखिएकै हो । तर निहुँखोजाहाहरुले यसलाई प्वाक्क ‘राष्ट्रघाती सन्धि’ भनिदिए । एमालले चन्द बाबुसाहेबलाई प्रधानमन्त्री बनाएर शिरोपर गरेको पनि जबजलाई सोधेरै हो । तर सधैँ छिद्र खोज्नेहरुले एमालेलाई पञ्चको लगौँटी भनिदिए । सांसद किनबेचमा डट्दा, प्रभुका पाउमा दाम चढाउन निहुरिँदा वा मौसुफको त्रुटि सुच्याउन तम्सिँदा हाम्रो जबज कहाँ थियो ? यहाँनेर कसो-कसो मलाई शंका लाग्छ । कि त हामीले बीचैमा जबजलाई छाड्यौँ, कि त यी काम लाग्दैनन् भनेर जबजले हामीलाई छाड्यो । यी सब क्रियाकर्म गर्दा जबज हामीसँगै थियो भने, गोप्यरूपले मैले भन्नैपर्छ, यस्तो नाथे जबजको केही काम छैन । आखिर जबजको रटान गर्दागर्दै डुबियो त ! तर एमाले कृतघ्नहरुको पार्टी होइन । डुबियो भन्दैमा एमालेगण जबजका जो भएका गुन बिर्सँदैन । हो, हाम्रो जबज सजिलो थियो ।

यसमा ‘संविधानसभा,’ ‘गणतन्त्र,’ ‘राज्यको पुनर्संरचना,’ ‘संघीय राज्यप्रणाली,’ ‘समानुपातिक प्रतिनिधित्व,’ ‘पार्टीको आन्तरिक लोकतान्त्रीकरण’जस्ता झ्याउ-झमेलाहरु केही नै थिएनन् । कल, छल, बल जेले हुन्छ, चुनाव जित । शक्तिकेन्द्रहरुको चाकरी, स्वस्ति, पाउलागी जे जे गरेर हुन्छ, सरकारमा उक्ल । उक्ल र ‘आप\mनो गाउँ आपै“m बनाऊ’ । बस्, जबजको तत्त्व यत्ति हो । तर मूले माओवादी यी सारा झ्याउ-झमेला लिएर होहल्ला गर्दै जंगलबाट सहर पस्यो । हाम्रो एमालेको ओराली सुरु भएको माओवादीको यही बद्मासीले गर्दा हो । अनि मेरो महासचिव पद ! उप !

राजनीतिमा जबज र भ्रमको नाता के हो ? कहिलेकाहीँ मलाई यो प्रश्नले हैरान पार्छ । म सम्झन्छु, चुनाव संघारमा आइपुग्दै थियो । जताततै एमालेको जितैजितको हल्ला फैलियो । डिएफआइडी नाउँको बुद्धि र धनको घैँटो तीनहात उपxfर एमालेलाई जिताउँदै थियो । के अनुसन्धानकर्मी, के मिडिया, के विद्वान् प्राडा सबैका मुखमा एमालेको बहुमतै-बहुमत थियो । यिनका कुरा सुनेर केपी, ईश्वर, प्रदीप, रघुहरु सबै मक्ख थिए । ती चाप्लुसीको भाकामा मलाई भन्दैथिए- कमरेड ! माओवादीसँग बन्दुक छन्, जन छैनन् । कांग्रेससँग न बुद्धि छ, न जन छन् । त्यसैले मुलुकभरिका जनजति जम्मै एमालेका । कमरेड महासचिव ! आगामी सरकार एमालेको, प्रधानमन्त्री पद माधवकुमार नेपालको । बेबकुफहरु ! अरूले त मलाई बेबकुफ बनाए-बनाए, हाम्रै केपी, ईश्वर, प्रदीप र रघुहरुले पनि मलाई थाङ्नामा सुताए । अरू कागले कान लग्यो भन्ने, कान नछामी यी अल्छीतिघ्रेहरु खुरुखुरु पत्याउने । अनि मलाई पत्यार गराउन यी हत्ते हाल्ने ! बाहै्रमास काठमाडौँमा हल्लिएर बिहान दूध र काजु, बेलुका मदिरा र कबाफ उदरस्थ गरेर मुलुकै हाम्रो हो भन्दै भ्रमको सुतीखेती गरेर एमालेलाई डुबाउने माउकर्ताहरु यिनै हुन् । म त सोझो मान्छे, यिनका कुरा पत्याएरै मेरो पत्तासाफ भो । हैन, यो जबज भनेको फगत भ्रम हो त ? एमाले यसरी उँधै, उँधै र उँधै मुन्टिरहँदा हाम्रो पुज्य जबज कहाँ थियो ? मौकामा बुद्धि नदिने यो जबजलाई अझै दह्रोसँग पक्रेर हाम्रो एमाले कहाँ पुग्ने हो ?

उसो त मेरो गहन आत्म-समीक्षाबाट अर्को एउटा गुह्य पनि खुल्यो । एमालेको ट्रेड युनियन कार्यालयमा जाँदा म सधैँ प्रसन्न हुन्थेँ । बाहिर भित्तामा मनमोहनभवन लेखिएको छ । कोठैपिच्छे लाए-खाएका, सुकिला, चिल्ला र हँसमुख राजकुमार-राजकुमारीजस्ता जनहरु कम्प्युटर खोलेर बसेका छन् । एमाले ट्रेड युनियनका नेता भुईंमा खुट्टा टेक्दैनन्, जताततै पजेरोमा हुइँकिन्छन् । त्यो सब देख्दा मलाई लाग्थ्यो, जबजको दिशानिर्देशमा मुलुकको कायाकल्प भयो । मजदुर-किसान उठ्यो ! तर जब आतंकको अनुहार लिएर चुनावको नतिजा आयो, म झल्याँस्स भएँ । अरे बाबा ! मुलुकमा मैला-धैला र भोका-नाङ्गा मजदुर-किसान अझै पनि बाँकी रहेछन् । सहरको सोख र विलासको सिकारी भएर एमालेले तिनलाई बिर्सेछ । अनि एमालेलाई त्यागेर ती सब माओवादीमा छिरेछन् । यो सब अनिष्ट भइरहँदा हाम्रो जबज खै के हरिबस्याथ्यो ? अनि अहोरात्र जबजको रटान गर्ने हाम्रा उच्चपदस्थ विलासवीर कमरेडहरु !

उप\m ! मुलुकको एउटा ‘उप\m’ नागार्जुन दरबारमा, अर्को ‘उप\m’ कोटेश्वर गृहमा । मैले के त्यत्रो पाप गरेको छु र म विचरो ‘उप\m’माथि सधैँ अपमानै अपमानको यो ओइरो ! पहिले प्रधानमन्त्रीको पद देखाएर मलाई धेरैले धेरैपटक थाङ्नामा सुताएका थिए । अहिले राष्ट्रपतिको पद देखाएर मलाई उही गन्धे-थाङ्नामा सुताइरहेछन् । म यी सबको सदावहार भकुन्डो रे ! कुन दुनो सोझ्याउन हो मलाई थाहा छैन, झलनाथ खनाल म भकुन्डोरूपी माधवलाई यताबाट लात्तले हान्छन्, उताबाट प्रचण्ड मलाई लात्तले हान्छन् । अनि बीचमा केपी शर्मा ओली छिर्केदाउले म भकुन्डोलाई गिरिजाबाबुका खुट्टामा पास दिन्छन् । म यस राष्ट्रको भकुन्डे राष्ट्रपति यत्रो पनि हुन्न । जसलाई हुनु छ, भइरहोस् । जसलाई खानु छ, खाइरहोस् ।

by Netrabikram “Biplap” Chand
Member of secretariat and CC Committee, CPN (Maoist)

Our revolution is in the stage of negotiation and our party sees compromise as another aspect of the class struggle. The question has not yet been finalised whether the revolution will be accomplished through compromise or it will be pushed towards counter-revolution. There is an incessant and fierce struggle between two different world outlooks that is attracting attention nationally and internationally.
Marxism accepts the possibility of making compromises; however, it considers impossible to accomplish a revolution through too many compromises. Compromise can be useful at a point in the revolution to obtain state power, but it is impossible to secure state power for the proletarian class only through compromise. On the contrary, opportunist and reformist tendencies not only consider compromise as necessary, but consider compromise as everything. They believe that society and state power can be changed and transformed through compromise rather than through revolution, through ‘negotiationism’. These two tendencies are gradually coming to a head in our country.
Our party, the CPN (Maoist), and the Nepali Congress (NC) are at logger heads over the issue of negotiation. From the point of view of class struggle, the NC doesn’t see or believe in the necessity of a revolution in Nepal. The NC, according to its viewpoint, wants to negotiation with the CPN (M), the CPN (UML) and other parties by dividing the ministries. According to the NC’s outlook, it is enough to progress economically. Political revolution is not necessary.
According to the NC’s outlook, the logical debate and planning of revolution is an activity of extremists. They suggest that the CPN (Maoist) should not do the revolution and be satisfied with a share in the government. But the ultimate goal of the CPN (M) is Communism through a People’s Republic and through the stage of socialism. For that, the state must be under the leadership of a Communist party. Therefore, we, the Maoist, should oppose ‘negotiationism’, though we are not against making particular compromises per se.
Due to the impact of class struggle, different views on compromise and ‘negotiationism’ are surfacing within the party; this should not be a surprise. Frankly speaking, the tendency of ‘negotiationism’ is spreading like a viral disease within our party. This type of tendency developing within the party is hundred times more dangerous than the ‘negotiationism’ of the NC. This tendency, through the so called economic ‘revolution’ and power sharing seeks to end the political revolution here. We would consider that it is an extremity of ‘negotiationism’ to depend upon hostile elements by neglecting the compulsory foundations for securing state power.
The NC wants to push the country into counter-revolution. The NC desires that a scientific communist party and the proletarian revolution should sink down into status-quo establishment and into the stagnant pool of the old state. Therefore, it has put forward a seven point demand that includes the dissolution of the YCL, the PLA and a rollback of all the gains made during the Peoples War.
If CPN (M) accepts these preconditions, it can be in the government, if it doesn’t, then it cannot. The purpose of these preconditions is to push the country towards counter-revolution. To accept these conditions is to end the revolution.
We, Maoists, desire to change this compromise into revolution and strengthen the revolution against the counter-revolution. For this, we should expand the means and the foundations of the revolution. Let us consolidate the party, the PLA and the United Front and take them to a new level. Let us establish a clear political and economic outlook and take state power.
We have already dissolved our local people’s power centres. We dissolved the people’s courts and the peoples’ militia. Our co-operatives, communes, health posts and educational institutions, established during the war, are now becoming weaker. In this situation, if we accept the seven-point demand of NC, directly or indirectly, we would declare that the revolution is over. A big debate has not taken place on it, but a tendency considers that it will make no difference if we accept the seven-point demand of the NC. The tendency to be liberal towards these demands is not a revolutionary tendency; it helps the interests of the NC.
Compromise is an unusual condition for revolution. Things seem peaceful in the period of agreement and negotiation but it is just an illusion. Two rival thoughts, tendencies and forces are fighting terribly behind a thin curtain. They both are trying to win under the cover of compromise. Each wants to destroy the other; one becomes bigger than the other, a process of swallowing begins. When the one about to be swallowed isn’t safe, then it breaches the norms of accord and begins to protect itself through struggle. If protecting itself becomes impossible by defending itself, it is obliged to start the confrontation between revolution and counter-revolution. Then the compromise will end and the balance of two opposed forces breaks down. This has happened previously in our country. Until now, the NC and the imperialists thought that they would be able to destroy the CPN (M) before the election. The masses and the fraternal parties and organisations of the world had thought that somewhere the CPN (M) would be swallowed! But in the election, the people protected the CPN (M) like their own children, and the NC and the imperialists failed in their mission. As a result, the NC has now put forward its seven point demand. We have defeated the NC in the election, but if we cannot protect the revolution, we will be ruined in no time. This conflict, indeed, is related to the series of compromises we have made. Now, we should direct our attention towards the defence of the revolution by ending the situation of compromise.
The issue of compromise is a common issue related to the world revolution, if we accept that the Nepalese revolution is a part of the world revolution. If we want to learn the lessons from communist states of the past century, the issue of compromise must be a common topic for all the revolutionaries of the world. It means that we should think deeply and develop a new ideology and knowledge to solve the problems before us and for the protection of the Nepalese revolution. Even though it has not been enough to tackle , the present necessities and possibilities to this date, we have been encouraged by the suggestions and participation of the RIM committee, the RCP and the CPI (Maoist).
In short, compromise is possible in a revolution, but revolution is not possible only through compromise. The imperialists and reactionaries want to push the revolution towards counter revolution, but revolutionary communists want to change the compromise into revolution. The conspiracy to change compromise into counter revolution is vigorously going on in Nepal. We should make this conspiracy fail by uniting the revolutionary forces of the world. Fighting against the reactionary forces, we should defeat them. Any revolution in any part of the world is a part of the world revolution. Likewise, any compromise also a part of the world revolution. Therefore, the revolutionaries of the world should make a joint effort to change the compromise into revolution. Revolution is compulsory but the ‘negotiationism’ is impossible.

A Philippine communist leader accused of commanding a rebel uprising for more than 20 years from his home in exile was arrested by Dutch police Tuesday, suspected of ordering the murder of two former allies in his home country, prosecutors said.

Jose Maria Sison, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People’s Army, was picked up in the central Dutch city of Utrecht, authorities said. He was due to appear in a Hague court on Friday.

He was accused of ordering the killings in 2003 and 2004 of Romulo Kintanar and Arturo Tabara, who were gunned down in the Philippines on Sison’s command, said a statement the Public Prosecutor’s Office.

Spokesman Wim de Bruin said Sison, 68, will be put on trial in the Netherlands, not the Philippines.

“There is no extradition request,” De Bruin said. “These are crimes that were committed in the Netherlands. Ordering murders is a crime according to Dutch law.” (more…)

नारायणप्रसाद शर्मा
नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टर्ीीमाओवादी)ले भदौ ३ गते २२ सूत्रीय कार्यक्रम जनसमक्ष ल्याएपछि राजनीतिक वृत्तमा ठूलो तरङ्ग पैदा भएको छ । त्यसले अझ एक प्रकारको हलचल पैदा गरेको छ । नेपाली काङ्ग्रेसले आफ्नो प्रेस वक्तव्यमार्फ यसको भर्त्सना गर्दै माओवादीले संविधानसभाको चुनाव नचाहेको आरोप लगाएको छ । नेपाली काङ्ग्रेस प्रजातान्त्रिकले पनि झण्डै यस्तै प्रतिक्रिया जनाएको छ । एमालेको भाषा अलिकति नरम भए पनि आशय त्यस्तै छ ।

व्यवस्थापिका संसद्मा पनि निन्दा र प्रशंसा दुबै सुन्न पाइन्छ । पत्र पत्रिका र रेडियो एवं टि.भी.मा यही २२ बुँदाकै चर्चा परिचर्चा छ । नेकपा माओवादीको सधैँ आलोचक रही आएका पार्टर्ीीले माओवादी चुनावबाट भाग्न खोज्दैछन् भन्दैछन् भने माओवादीहरूले चुनावी वातावरणका लागि यस प्रकारको आन्दोलन अनिवार्य भन्दैछ । अध्यक्ष प्रचण्डकै शब्दमा’अहिलेको स्थितिमा राजतन्त्र कायमै राखेर संविधानसभा हुन्छ भन्नु जस्तो महाझुठ, पाखण्ड र बेइमानी अर्को हुनै सक्दैन ।

प्रश्न गम्भीर छ- माओवादीकै कारण संविधानसभाको चुनाव हुँदैन त - अथवा माओवादीले भने जस्तै अहिलेकै स्थितिमा चुनाव हुनसक्दैन या हुनु पाखण्ड नै हुन्छ त - माओवादीले २२ बुँदे माग राखेर आन्दोलनको कार्यक्रमको घोषणा गरेका छन् । व्यवस्थापिका संसद्मा २२ बुँदाको खासै चर्चा चलेन तर माओवादीको जनकारबाही भन्ने शब्दले भने धेरैलाई तर्सर्ााो छ । माओवादीहरूले जनकारवाही भनेको रायमाझी आयोगले दोषी ठहर गरेका व्यक्तिहरू अर्थात् राजावादी शक्तिहरूमाथि कारबाही हो र त्यो युद्धकालीन शैलीको होइन भनेका छन् । यसो भए पनि माओबादीका कट्टर आलोचकहरू यसबाट तर्सर्ेेे पक्कै हो ।

आखिर के छ त माओवादीको २२ बुँदामा - २२ बुँदा आउनुअघि १८ बुँदा आइसकेका हुन् । त्यतिबेला मन्त्रिपरिषद्मा नेपाली काङ्ग्रेसका ११ बुँदा, एमालेको १० बुँदा र माओवादीका १८ बुँदासहित ४३ बुँदा छन् । सबै बुँदालाई सँगै राखेर तत्काल मिलनबिन्दुको खोजी गर्ने प्रयास गरेका भए सायद यति ठूलो हलचल पैदा हुने थिएन कि - पछि थपिएका ४ बुँदा पनि एकदमै सुनिँदै नसुनिएका बुँदा त हैनन् तथापि आन्दोलनमा उत्रने र जनव्रि्रोहको कुराले प्रतिपक्षमा खलबली मच्चिएकै छ । (more…)

• Fidel engaging in increasingly intense and valuable activities • Willing to hold talks, on an equal footing, with the United States • Cuba will accept foreign investment: capital, technology and markets
• Strengthening our defensive capacity • A special effort must be made in food production to save on imports • Our people will never give in to pressure or blackmail from any country or group of countries
(Translated by ESTI)

Friends accompanying us here today;
People of Camagüey, good morning;

Compatriots:
Exactly one year ago, as we were listening to the speeches given by the Commander in Chief in Bayamo and Holguín, we could hardly even suspect what a hard blow was awaiting us.

Next July 31 will be the first anniversary of Fidel’s Proclamation, and to the delight of our people he is already taking on more and more intense and highly valuable activities, as evidenced by his reflections which are published in the press, even though, not even during the most serious moments of his illness, did he fail to bring his wisdom and experience to each problem and essential decision.

THOSE WHO ARE AMAZED AT OUR PEOPLE’S CAPACITY TO RISE TO THE LEVEL OF EVERY CHALLENGE, NO MATTER HOW GREAT, DO NOT KNOW THEM VERY WELL

These have truly been very difficult months, although with a diametrically different impact to that expected by our enemies, who were wishing for chaos to entrench and for Cuban socialism to collapse. Senior U.S. officials even made statements about taking advantage of this scenario to destroy the Revolution.

Those who are amazed at our people’s capacity to rise to the level of every challenge, no matter how great, do not know them very well, since this is really the only behavior consistent with our history.

The battle waged by many generations of Cubans is well-known, from La Demajagua and Moncada, right up to the present, always facing enormous obstacles and powerful enemies. So much sacrifice and difficulties! How many times did we have to recommence the struggle after each setback! (more…)

A World to Win News Service

“That fateful summer, 8:15. The roar of a B-229 breaks the morning calm. A parachute opens in the blue sky. Then suddenly, a flash, en enormous blast – silence– hell on earth.

“The eyes of young girls watching the parachute melted. Their faces became giant charred blisters. The skin of people seeking help dangled from their fingernails. Their hair stood on end. Their clothes were ripped to shreds. People trapped in houses toppled by the blast were burned alive. Others died when their eyes and internal organs burst from their bodies. Hiroshima was a hell where those who somehow survived envied the dead.” (From the 6 August 2007 memorial statement by Hiroshima mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, in a plea to rid the world of all nuclear weapons)

On 6 August 1945 the US unleashed the atomic bomb on humanity. The world’s first use of nuclear weapons, against the Japanese city of Hiroshima, was followed on 9 August by the bombing of Nagasaki.

As the US threatens war – including the use of nuclear weapons – against Iran, supposedly because the Islamic regime seeks nuclear weapons capability, it is more important than ever to emphasize what country has been the first and only to ever actually use such weapons.

The two atomic bombs dropped at the end of World War 2 were deliberately set to explode high in the air. The point was to maximize the killing, not the destruction of buildings. More than 110,000 people died immediately in the two bombings and the radiation eventually killed hundreds of thousands more. Many years of painful death by cancer and later birth defects lay ahead for the survivors and their descendents.

If terrorism is defined as the killing of innocent civilians for a political purpose, then the world has seldom seen such terrorism. Think of 40 times 11 September 2001 in New York and you will only imagine the first few seconds.

Shortly after, Japan surrendered. But its economy and capital city had been destroyed before the atomic bombs reduced two non-military and relatively unimportant cities to towns of the dead. Many historians believe that country was on the verge of surrender before those terrible days in August 1945. The main reason the US wanted to use atomic weapons was as a demonstration of strength to threaten the USSR. The Soviet Union was then a socialist country. It had been allied with the US against Germany and Japan during the war, but even before that war was over, the US was baring its teeth to the USSR and setting out to dominate the world.

Before World War 2, bombing civilians was considered a barbaric and illegal act. The US was not the only nation to commit that crime in WW2, but along with the British it did so on an enormous scale. Since then the US has threatened to use nuclear weapons on dozens of occasions, not only against the USSR when that country later became an imperialist rival to the US, but also Vietnam and China. That the US would make first use of nuclear weapons whenever it felt its interests sufficiently threatened has been official US doctrine and the cornerstone of American military policy from the 1950s through today.

Currently, despite the fact that the US’s rival in Cold War nuclear terrorism, the USSR, has collapsed, the Bush government has launched a plan to redesign and rebuild every weapon in its nuclear arsenal, which still contains, like Russia’s, roughly 5,800 active atomic warheads. This includes both giant city-crushing long-range-missile- born bombs and smaller “tactical” nuclear weapons to vaporize smaller targets. The Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab in California, which is carrying out this project, was the target of a planned series of demonstrations to commemorate the bombings of the two Japanese cities and oppose an American attack on Iran. The use of “tactical” nuclear weapons against Iran is a popular topic of discussion in Washington.

It is also criminally ironic that just the week before the Hiroshima anniversary, the US and Indian governments reached agreement on American technical assistance to India’s nuclear programme at the same time the US is threatening Iran for undertaking its own programme. Unlike Iran, India has refused to sign the nuclear non-proliferation pact, and unlike Iran, India has developed and tested nuclear bombs. Obviously, for the US the question is not preventing nuclear proliferation but supporting or toppling regimes according to its perceived interests.

As the UN International Atomic Energy Agency has said, there is no evidence that Iran’s nuclear programme includes weapons at this time. It is true that nukes are nukes and much of the same technology and skills used for nuclear power plants can be used to make nuclear bombs. It also may be that the Iranian Islamic regime seeks nuclear weapons. It would be wrong to deny these facts and prettify an anti-people regime.

But the world has only known one nuclear war criminal, and that criminal must be stopped from doing it again

by Johan Petter Andresen

The Health Team for Nepal was formed in 2006. The aim of the Health Team project is to help poor people in rural areas of Nepal. The Health Team for Nepal cooperates with the medical department of the People’s Liberation Army in order to attain this goal. The health team for Nepal consists of two parts: medical specialists and a support group.

The specialists have a program to train approximately 20 medics based on a course developed by progressive Norwegian surgical specialists. The curriculum is based on two books: Save Lives Save Limbs and War Surgery. As part of this project we have sent 50 copies of each in English and the books are also being translated into Nepali. The training course takes 18 to 24 months to complete and contains three intense training sessions. The surgeon Hans Husum and specialist nurse Merete Taksdal have completed the first course together with PLA medics and medical staff at Gorneti Model Hospital in Rolpa in November 2006.

The second course is scheduled for October 2007. The support group collects money needed for the project and spreads information about the democratic revolution in Nepal. So far we have collected approximately 2,200,000 (NRS). Of this we have used 150,0000 (NRS). In order to complete the project we will be collecting another 800, 000 (NRS) (about US$11,000) within the next nine months. The health team support group has held audiovisual lectures at about 14 schools and approximately 15 mass meetings in various cities in Norway. (more…)

ऋतुराज
दाईं हाल्ने परालको घानमा नारिएका गोरूको माझमा गएर दाम्लो घाँटिमा छिराएपछि गोरू जसरी घुम्ने गर्छन् त्यसरी नै घुम्नर्ुपर्छ । घुम्न चाहेन भने दाम्लोले लतार्छ । नेपालको सत्तामाथि दाईंहाल्ने क्रममा नागरिएका सातओटा गोरूको माझमा आठौं गोरू बनेर नारिन माओवादी पनि गयो । पाँचओटा मन्त्रालयको जिम्मेवारी पायो । सरकारमा गइसकेपछि अरू जसरी हिँडेका छन् त्यसरी हिँड्नर्ैपर्छ भन्ने आम मान्यता रहन्छ । सरकार भएपछि सरकारकै रूपमा देखिनु पर्छ । यो सरकार हुनुको वाध्यता हो । राजावादीहरू, राप्रपाहरू बाहेकको अहिलेको यो सत्तामा सबै समाविष्ट छन् । कोही प्रतिपक्ष छैन । सबै सत्ता पक्ष । त्यसैले यो बहुमतको सरकारको हो । अहिलेको सत्तालाई यसरी नै बुझ्ने गरिएको छ । माओवादीलाई सबैले सत्तापक्ष अथवा सत्तारूढ दल भनेर बुझ्छन् । र, माओवादी र नेपाली कांग्रेस, एमाले एउटै लिकमा हिँडेको भन्ठान्छन् । सारमा जे होला रूपमा यही नै वास्तविकता हो ।
कुरा दोलखा र पाँचथरतिर मोडौं । दोलखामा प्रमुख जिल्ला अधिकारी माओवादी वाइसीएलको आक्रमणमा परे । प्रजिअमाथि आक्रमण हुनुको कारण भने निश्चय नै छ । माओवादी निकटका व्यक्तिले एकजना राजावादी कार्यकर्तालाई कालोमोसो दले । कालोमोसो दल्नाको पनि कारणहरू छन् । उसले त्यहाँ राजतन्त्रका पक्षमा राजनीति गर्दै आठ दल र जनआन्दोलन-२ को खिल्ली उडाइरहेको थियो । राजावादी चम्चेहरूले पुरानो राजतन्त्रात्मक संसदीय संविधानको आडमा कालो दल्नेमाथि र्सार्वजनिक अपराधअन्तरगत जिल्ला प्रशासन कार्यालयमा उजुरी दिए । उजुरवालाको उजुरी तुरून्तै सुनेर माओवादीका कार्यकर्तालाई पक्रियो । उनीहरूलाई छाडियोस् भन्ने माओवादीको आग्रह रह्यो । प्रशासनले मुद्दा चलाउने क्रम अघि बढायो । त्यहाँ राजावादी गन्ध देखियो । त्यसले भनाभनको रूप लियो । बढ्दैजाँदा उग्र भयो । तोडफोड भयो । प्रशासनले थप अरूलाई गिरफ्तार गर्‍यो । त्यसक्रममा प्रजिअ पनि धक्कामुक्कीमा परे । एकजनालाई छाड्न आग्रह गर्न जाँदा अरू दर्जनौंलाई गिरफ्तार गरेपछि त्यसको विरोधमा दोलखा बन्दको कार्यक्रम अगाडि सार्नुपर्‍यो । यही नै दोलखाको वास्तविकता हो । (more…)

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It is big news in Nepal these days that Maoist Party is striving very hard to develop its foreign relations. They also make their assessments that it has achieved tremendous success in this regard. The visits made by some of the leaders of our Party to foreign countries and our bilateral talks with the official delegations of various countries including our immediate neighbor and a tested long time friend of our country, China is being cited as the examples. This short article relates to the same subject.

Yes it is true that we are striving very hard to develop and strengthen our foreign relation. During the period of People’s War the regime had declared our party a terrorist organization and had approached most of the governments of the world. Based on their relation with the regime some of the governments had listed our party as terrorist organization and some though did not listed but treated us as terrorists. In such circumstances it was not possible for us to develop any king of relation and ties with us. When we negotiated with parliamentary parties to launch a joint mass movement against the autocratic monarchy with the aim of establishing democratic republic and made a series of negotiations including the interim legislature and interim government in which we have significant representation in both. A new political situation has emerged due to this new change in political scenario.

Therefore, our party’s international relation was confined to the relation with the fraternal and friendly revolutionary parties and organizations of different parts of the world. Because of the change in the political situation that has given rise to a new possibility of developing revolution with peaceful form of struggle we are obliged to develop state to state relations with various governments which are friendly to our nation and the process that we have decided to adopt to resolve the political crisis and way out for forward development.

We have already brought out our views in open through different mediums. Now we have two aspects of our foreign relationship: fraternal and friendly relations with Maoist and other revolutionary communist parties and organizations and side by side relation with other political forces and the governments of various countries which are friendly to our country and the people of Nepal and supporting the ongoing political process. Therefore the success of out foreign relation can be gauged through both the perspectives.

There is no such significant shift in the development of fraternal and friendly relations with the Communist forces. It is also true that we have come in touch and extended relations with new such forces. As because there is no upsurge of the revolutionary movements led by communists in the world today, this relation will have no such a magnitude to determine or influence the ongoing political developments. But it never means that it does not bear any significance. Unity of the communist revolutionaries has its own significance and deserves to be maintained and developed.

It is true that there is a significant shift in developing relation with various governments which are friendly to our country and supporting the ongoing political process in Nepal and providing help to enhance this process. Frankly speaking we have good relation with all countries of the world except the Bush administration. During the 52 minutes long discussion with the leadership of our Party, the visiting former US president Jimmy Carter opined that it was unjust not to remove the terrorist tag from our party in the given situation that we have a strong presence in the interim legislature and also in the interim government. The relation with the European countries is good enough. We have easy access with them. The recent visits of our leadership including our Chairman have enhanced this relation to further higher level. The heightened relationship of our party with the European countries will definitely create diplomatic pressure to Washington. The Bush administration is thus isolated from the world and from even within US for its flawed policy regarding its relation with our party.

Our relation with China, the immediate neighbor and long tested friend of the Nepalese people has developed enormously within short span of time. The strong statement made by the Chinese Ambassador explaining the policy of his country that ‘China would never tolerate any foreign intervention in Nepal’ at a time when we are facing a threat against the integrity of our beloved motherland is really of paramount importance, which paves the way thus demonstrating that there is ample scope in advancing our relationship at the higher level. The relationship with our other immediate neighbor India is fairly good. The support the separatist elements are enjoying from India, especially from Bihar has definitely caused some problem in Nepal. But the government of India seems not to have any role into it. Our only concern is that the government of India should use its good office to help control the bad situation in Nepal by preventing such elements from getting any support from the Indian soil.

Therefore it will be no exaggeration to say that the foreign relation of our party has been enhanced and it is developing fairly well.

By Dave Lindorff

The looming collapse of the US military in Iraq, of which a number of generals and former generals, including former Chief of Staff Colin Powell, have warned, is happening none too soon, as it my be the best hope for preventing military rule here at home.

From the looks of things, the Bush/Cheney regime has been working assiduously to pave the way for a declaration of military rule, such that at this point it really lacks only the pretext to trigger a suspension of Constitutional government. They have done this with the active support of Democrats in Congress, though most of the heavy lifting was done by the last, Republican-led Congress.

The first step, or course, was the first Authorization for Use of Military Force, passed in September 2001, which the president has subsequently used to claim-improperly, but so what? -that the whole world, including the US, is a battlefield in a so-called “War” on Terror, and that he has extra-Constitutional unitary executive powers to ignore laws passed by Congress. As constitutional scholar and former Reagan-era associate deputy attorney general Bruce Fein observes, that one claim, that the US is itself a battlefield, is enough to allow this or some future president to declare martial law, “since you can always declare martial law on a battlefield. All he’d need would be a pretext, like another terrorist attack inside the U.S.” (more…)

Realize the dreams of innumerable Martyrs

The spring thunder of Naxalbari was a clarion call for the poor, oppressed, and exploited people of India. It showed them the path for liberation. It has been forty years since four peasant women and three children had laid down their lives in Naxalbari village while fighting for land and life with dignity – their liberation.

The Indian Communist movement had gone through many ups and downs since then. Many were the twists and turns, ups and downs in these forty years. Finally on September 21, the two streams of revolutionary Communists – the MCCI and CPI (ML)(PW) merged into CPI (Maoist) and a strong single centre to guide the movement was finally formed. In the 37 years of class struggle and people’s war of these two streams before the merger many comrades had laid down their precious lives for the victory of New Democratic Revolution in India. The soil in the remote villages of India turned red with the warm blood of these immortal martyrs. The unity of the party could be achieved only through their invaluable sacrifices. It is the base on which the party stands today and endeavors to advance the people’s war. It is by paying homage to their glorious martyrdom that the unity was cemented.

It is the duty of every Communist Party to pay tribute to the memory of martyrs by continuing the tasks left behind by them till the victory of communism. People are always inspired by the sacrifices of martyrs. So it becomes our duty to propagate about their great qualities, which we have to emulate, their lives and their ideals, among the vast masses so that they are inspired to join the struggle to carry forward their lofty aims.

July 28th to August 3rd is celebrated as martyrs’ week to commemorate them and to take a vow that we will follow their path with renewed determination. We are using this occasion to give the readers a glimpse into the lives of women martyrs of CPI (Maoist) party since the merger of the two parties. We are also planning to bring a book about all women martyrs since Naxalbari soon. This is a prelude to that attempt.
It is with great grief that we are writing here that out of a total of 139 women comrades who were martyred, we could collect the life histories of about 40comrades. CPI (Maoist) is leading a movement which is spread in a vast area and that too it is concentrated in the most backward and remote pockets of India. So one of the main reasons for the unavailability of their life histories is the lack of regular communication between the various zones. We have made an effort to compile the whole list of women comrades martyred between September 2004 and July 2007. We are giving the available life histories and the list of women comrades martyred in this period as far as we could gather. The list is more or less complete but there are some more women comrades who were martyred during the state sponsored Salwa Judum terrorist campaign unleashed by the Chattisgarh ruling classes in Dandakaranya whose names and details we could not get in time. Some more women comrades also died recently in encounters with para-military and other armed forces in DK whose details we could not obtain due to the war like situation prevailing there. We would definitely overcome these shortcomings for the book on all women martyrs. But meanwhile we thought it would be useful and inspiring to bring out as many life histories as possible on this solemn occasion when we commemorate our beloved martyrs.
When we look at the lives of these women martyrs many things strike us as significant. In the Srikakulam struggle, which was the major armed struggle of the Naxalbari period, there were 17 women martyrs. Altogether the total number of women martyrs of that period will be in dozens. But after 1985 and especially in the 1990s and in the new millennium their numbers reached hundreds. And more than a hundred women comrades have laid their lives just in this past two and half years since the merger. The majority of them were killed in the three zones of Andhra Pradesh (AP) due to the fascist repressive regime of YS Rajasekara Reddy and in Dandakaranya due to the Salwa Judum counter revolutionary terrorist campaign.
The reason for the repression becoming more and more severe in the past 15 years is the globalization policies pushed by the government under the guidance of the imperialists. The ruling classes of India i.e., the feudal landlords, the comprador big bourgeoisie and the imperialists want to plunder the vast mineral and natural resources of India especially in the forest areas of Chattisgarh, Orissa, Jharkhand and North Andhra. Many brave men and women have lost their lives in Kalinga nagar in Orissa and in Singur and Nandigram of West Bengal when they opposed such exploitation.

The reactionary ruling classes want to suppress the Party and PLGA which defends the interests of the people and which are organizing the people into struggles against the plunderers. That is why so many people as well as party activists and soldiers of PLGA have to lay down their lives in this bitter struggle against the imperialist led ruling classes. As more and more women are realizing the truth and joining the struggles, the number of women losing their lives also increases.

As the people’s war advances the number may increase more. But this large number not only indicates the level of repression and the scale of the movement but also the fact that women are joining the party and army in large numbers. It shows that oppressed women are increasingly choosing the revolutionary path.

On the other hand when we look at some of the incidents we can gauge how the fascization of the armed forces has risen to unprecedented heights. It even looks like the state is exceptionally cruel towards women. In the bizarre Manala covert killings three women comrades (with another 7 male comrades) were very cruelly tortured after they became unconscious from the sedatives mixed in their food and then killed. The whole scene was so ghastly that people were terrified when they saw the mutilated, mauled bodies. In Sangidigundala six women comrades were brutally gunned down. Out of them three were Chenchu adivasi young girls and the other three were also young women from a poor peasant background. (more…)

Nepalese Maoists have threaten to quit unity government after presence of security persons without their knowledge in their residence on Sunday.

The five ministers who have been included in the Government from Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) have expressed disagreement and objection on deputation of security personnel for the purpose of their security from Singanath Battalion who were undergone ranger training from Bhairabnath Battalion.

Bhairabnath Battalion is infamous as Nepali Abu ghraib because of brutality in there. More than 40 prisoners, mainly Maoists, had been disappeared from the battalion. Analysists believe that they were already been killed. Maoists had been demanding to publish their whereabouts and close down that infamous battalion.

Minister for Women, Children and Social Welfare Khaddar Bahadur Bishwokarma, Minister for Physical Planning and Works Hisila Yemi, Minister for Forest and Soil Conservation Martina Yadav, Minister for Local Development Dev Prasad Gurung and Minister for Information and Communication Krishna Bahadur Mahara expressed their objection by issuing a joint press statement.

In the press conference, organized Monday by the Ministers at the Office of the Parliamentary Party of CPN (Maoist), Minister Mahara said they could not meet the Prime Minister though they had requested for his time to inform him in this regard. He said the Ministers had taken the matter seriously.

Maoists ministers claimed that the army is not in control of government. They follow orders from anothe place.

They were seemed agressive because they were not pre-informed about new deployment. “Why deployment for Maoists minister only, why not for other ministers too?” Mahara asked.

Chairman of CPN-Maoist Prachanda Monday said that the possibility of reactionary forces impeding the Constituent Assembly (CA) elections would continue to grow if the nation was not declared a republican state prior to the CA elections. He said the country would not be able to move ahead in the right direction unless the peace process took a smooth turn and unless the ten-year-long people’s war of the Maoists was evaluated in the right manner. The peace process would take a sluggish course if Nepal were not declared a republican state immediately, he added.

Addressing a press conference organised by the Revolutionary Journalists’ Association (Lumbini), he said as the reactionary forces were all out to dislodge democracy, it would be wise to declare Nepal a republic and move ahead for the CA elections.

The Maoist Chairman warned the CA elections could not take place by sidelining the Maoists.

He said that his party was not for severing relations among the eight political parties. The eight-party unity needs to be further cemented for sometime to come, Prachanda added.

He claimed that in the beginning some bigger parties had attempted to wipe out Maoists’ existence from the Terai, but the parties that made such attempts themselves got swept away.

Stating that the eight parties were now facing existential threat in the Terai, he warned, if anybody was imagining a Nepal without the Maoists, then it would be unfortunate.

“Some bigger parties have been taking the elections lightly, but they do not seem to be worried over the fact that a congenial environment for the elections has not been yet created.”

He said, first it was imperative to create the right environment for polls, before embarking on to the actual polling.

Madhes has turned into rendezvous of pro-royalists and Indian criminals and the celebration of the king’s birthday substantiates that the reactionaries have been trying to disrupt the CA polls.

“It cannot be denied that the promotion of some high ranking officials of the Nepal Army and the maneuvering being hatched by the palace could come on the way of the CA polls,” Prachanda said.

He accused the parties in the government of trying to defame the Young Communist League (YCL) and suggested all not to make such attempts as the YCL was a security wing of the CPN-Maoist.

Underlining the need to merge the Nepal Army and the People’s Liberation Army, he said only the Armed Police Force (APF) and the civil police could provide security during the elections adding the YCL help ought to be sought in this regard.

Stating though some hitches had surfaced in the second round of verification of the Maoist army, Prachanda hoped that it would resume soon. He said attempts were underway to disarm the Maoists, which would never be successful.

He said that his Europe visit was a success.

शक्ति लम्साल
संविधानसभा निर्वाचनको मिति घोषणा भएको छ, तर यो घोषणाले चुनावी उत्साह ल्याउन सकेको छैन, यसलाई यहाँले कसरी लिनुभएको छ ?
पहिले पनि संविधानसभाको निर्वाचन जेठ मसान्तभित्र गर्ने भनिएको थियो, तर त्यसको कार्यतालिकालगायत आवश्यक तयारी भएको थिएन । जनताको चाहना, आकाङ्क्षालाई परिपर्ूर्ति गर्नकै लागि मात्र अपर्झ त्यसो भनिएको थियो । जेठ मसान्तभित्र निर्वाचन सम्पन्न गर्ने भित्रैदेखि इच्छा, आकाङ्क्षा स्वयं सातदल र सरकारको पनि थिएन, त्यसो हुनाले निर्वाचन हुन सकेन ।

अहिले मङ्सिर ६ गते चुनाव गर्ने निर्ण्र्ााभएको छ । पार्टर्ीी, जनता आदिको माहौल, विभिन्न प्रतिक्रिया र अभिव्यक्तिहरूलाई हर्ेदा चुनाव घोषणा भए पनि चुनाव हुनका लागि बाहृयस्थिति त्यति सवल देखिन्न । आन्तरिक रूपमा समेत चुनावको तयारी सुषुप्तरूपमा भइरहेको जस्तो लाग्दैन । त्यसैले जनतामा अझ पनि शङ्का, उपशङ्का मडारिइरहेको छ, चुनाव हुन्छ वा घोषणामात्र गरिएको हो भन्ने कुराको चुनाव हुन्छ, हुन्न भन्ने खालको आशङ्का मेटाउने गरी चुनावी तयारी गर्नु आवश्यक छ । (more…)

किशोर पन्थी
युद्धको अवधिमा सही सूचना प्राप्त गर्नु कठिन कार्य हो । कुनै घटना हुँदा घटनास्थल पुगेरै वास्तविकता पत्ता लगाउन पनि सधैँ सम्भव हुँदैन । यो स्थितिमा घटनाको बारेमा सञ्चारमाध्यमबाट जनतालाई सुसूचित गराउनु चुनौतिपर्ूण्ा कार्य हो । जब २०६१ साल माघ १९ मा राजा ‘कू’ गरे, त्यतिबेला सञ्चारमाध्यमहरूमा प्रतिबन्ध लाग्यो । एफ. एम. रेडियोले गीत घन्काउन थाले, रेडियो नेपालले निरङ्कुशताको भजन गाउन थाल्यो तर रेडियो जनगणतन्त्रको प्रसारणलाई निरङ्कुशताको ‘जालो’ ले बाँध्न सकेन । तर्सथ युद्धको बेलामा सूचना जनतासम्म पुर्‍याउने चुनौती रेडियो जनगणतन्त्रले सामना गर्‍यो । (more…)