2005-11-22

The 12 "New Delhi/München" steps to hell

The 12-point understanding between the 7 dwarfs and jungle commissars:

1. Despotic monarchy is chief enemy of democracy as well as peace. So all sides will work to fight despotic monarchy and establish full-fledged democracy.
2. Continuing dialogue and consolidating movement for democracy.
3. For the lasting peace, ending autocratic monarchy, holding elections for Constituent Assembly, consigning arms to the UN or other reliable international supervision prior to the election to Constituent Assembly, holding the election in a free and fair manner and accepting the outcome of the election;
4. Maoists have expressed their commitment to competitive pluralistic governance, including human rights, rule of law and fundamental rights of people and have vowed to conduct their activities accordingly.
5. Maoists have expressed commitments to allow other political parties activities freely and to make arrangement so that displaced political leaders and party-workers could return to their places with dignity and their unduly confiscated properties handed back to them.
6. Maoists have made self evaluation and regretted for the mistakes committed in the past , and also vowed not to repeat similar mistakes in the future.
7. Seven-party alliance has also made similar self evaluation and regretted for the lapses and shortcomings that prevailed when they were in power or in parliament.
8. Respecting the norm and values of human rights and press freedom, and moving accordingly;
9. Opposing and boycotting the municipal as well as parliamentary polls offered [by the King?s government] to legitimize the unconstitutional government;
10. Commitment to nation, national integrity and democracy;
11. Appeal to general people for support;
12. In cases where parties have demanded probe and action in matters relating to their own wrong activities in the past, conducting probes, punishing the guilty and making such actions publicly noticeable.
The signatories include Girija Prasad Koirala, Madhav Kumar Nepal, Gopalman Shrestha, Amik Sherchan, Bharat Bimal Yadav, Krishnadas Shrestha and Prem Suwal.

Not that I believe one second any of this will become reality. No, I post it here as a matter of record, so in a year's time, when they will be hanging Prachanda on Tundikhel with the Royal Nepal Army Band playing Last Waltz and those named above will be watching it live either from jail or from exile in Benares... then we all have a good laugh and sigh with relief that the nightmare is over!
This is a classic case of what marxist like to call "false consciousness" and these spent, corrupt, 'passé' politicians only delude themselves. Since they launched and "relaunched" their silly "andolan" (movement), confined to an are between New Road and Putali Sadak and few thousand hangers-on, Nepal and nepalese, millions of them, have moved on.
That they refuse participate in the upcoming municipal elections and will actively obstruct them show their contempt for Democrazy. The King is more attuned to the 'Zeitgest', having taken stock of the sucesfull excercises of electoral appeal in Afghanistan and Iraq, where the security sitation is much, order of magnitude, worse!

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