Democracy For Nepal

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Reciprocate The Maoist Ceasefire Immediately

Declaration of a constituent assembly and a total reciprocation of the Maoist ceasefire has to be the first order of business on Friday.

Nepal Maoists announce truce Advertiser Adelaide, Australia
Nepal Maoists announce truce Courier Mail, Australia
Nepal's Maoists announce three-month truce: report New Straits Times, Malaysia
Nepal Maoists announce truce Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia
Nepalese Insurgents Vow to Fight On Bluefield Daily Telegraph, WV
Nepal Maoists announce truce NEWS.com.au, Australia
Nepal Maoists announce truce Australian, Australia
Maoists announce 3-month ceasefire in Nepal Hindu, India
Maoists announce ceasefire in Nepal Sify, India

This is a de ja vu experience.

A Militarist King And A Wasted Ceasefire
The King Is Being Super Unreasonable
Why The Maoists Should Not Go Back To Violence
Robert Kaplan Is An American Cowboy
Isolating The Monarchy
Maoists Should Go Beyond Ceasefire To Peaceful Mobilization
Prachanda Statement
Prachanda, Extend The Ceasefire By Three Months
INSEC Report: One Month Of Ceasefire
Art Of War, Art Of Peace
The Maoists Need To Come Clean Or They Go Down With The King
Homework For Another Round Of Civil War
Militarists, Maoists, Monotones, Dorambaites, Naxalites
Militarists Attempting A Doramba Repeat To End Ceasefire
A Question For Mahara
100,000 Unarmed Maoist Cadres
The Onus Is On The King
The Maoists Could Do More
The RNA Could Be Disbanded
The Maoist Ceasefire: The Devil In The Details
For The First Time In A Decade, Permanent Peace Feels Possible
Ahobhagya Shaubhagya: Confusion InThe Monarchist Camp
Options For The Maoists And The Democrats
The King, The Army, The Ceasefire
Alliance Of Steel
The Obstinate Monarchists
Irresponsible Response To Ceasefire
Prachanda, Do Not Break The Ceasefire
The King Should Now Move To Step 2
To Trust Or Not To Trust The Maoists
RNA, Declare Your Own Ceasefire, You Have No Choice
After Ganapathy, A Ceasefire

This ceasefire announcement is in the same league as the king's last address. This is huge. I congratulate the Maoists. They have taken the initiative for peace.

Army Under Parliament, Now
Declare Constituent Assembly On First Day Of Parliament
Maoist Reaction To Democratic Victory: Not Right
Madhesi Rights: Total Equality
ितमीले देखाइ िदयौ
18 Days Of April Revolution: Victory

The terroirst label has to be taken off. We do want the top Maoist leaders to be able to move around the country freely. We do want Prachanda and Baburam to be able to address mass meetings. And we do want them to have personal bodyguards when they do so. All this would be part of the trust building that will make the formal peace talks smooth.

The whole idea is to mainstream them. The idea is that they end up a political party inside a multi-party framework. And we are very much on schedule.

In the mean time I am going to work on a proposal that says dismantle the two armies, dismantle the monarchy.

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BBC Nepali Service: माधवकुमार नेपालसंग-26.04.06

Army Under Parliament, Now

We don't have to wait for a constituent assembly and peace talks with Maoists and a new constitution to get the army totally under the parliament. The seven party alliance has enough votes in the parliament to amend the constitution fundamentally. It needs to take care of this detail. Now.

Army men kill 6 civilians in Morang NepalNews Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) soldiers have shot and killed six innocent civilians and wounded two dozen others in Belbari area of the eastern district of Morang. RNA solders sprayed bullets on the local residents who had gone to protest in front of the security base camp in Belbari this afternoon after army men allegedly raped and killed a 22-year-old local girl, Sapana Gurung, last night ...... the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in a statement this evening confirmed the death of six civilians but claimed that the security forces opened fire in self-defence as the crowd turned violent and tried to vandalise the security post...... The MoD said six persons were killed on the spot while 11 others were injured in the incident.

This case has to go to a civilian court. The soldiers who raped and killed Sunita Gurung need to be brought to civilian justice. And an inquiry has to be made into the details of the shooting incident. Looks to me like some soldiers will end up in civilian court also on this count.

This incident is of huge symbolic importance. It is for the SPA to show it is now in control.

Nepal’s Army ‘positive’ about mergence with Maoists Expressindia.com, India "The RNA is positive about the merging of the Maoist militants with the national Army," said Royal Nepalese Army's Chief of Army staff Pyar Jung Thapa."We can incorporate some of the Maoist cadres into the Royal Nepalese Army on the basis of their capability and qualification," he said. The Army is willing to work with any government and it would continue to be answerable to Prime Minister and the Defence Minister, he said.
Maoists can join us: Nepal army chief NewKerala.com

It is not for the army to decide if it will merge with the Maoists or not. The army is not an autonomous institution.

The parliament has to bring the army fully under its control. After it does that, it might as well order that army to wage a war on the Maoists. Who knows? I hope not, I think not. But the parliament has to have that option open, otherwise the army is not yet under the parliament. We will know that much.

And should there be integration, it will not be for the army to decide which Maoist soldiers they will take, and which they will not. It will be for the civilian government to decide on the framework.

After the parliament brings the army totally under its control, the seven party government will have several options. It could hire, fire, promote and demote individuals in the army. It could order the army to wage war on the Maoists. It could order it to declare a ceasefire. It could later order the command of the army shifted to the UN temporarily, if peace talks might thus warrant. It could even order the army dismantled.

That is what it means to have civilian control over the army.

The seven party government has the option to conduct extensive investigations to identify individuals guilty of human rights violations so as to bring them to justice. And you can do that without demoralizing the entire institution.

Good Thing Maoists Lifted Blockade

Maoists withdraw blockade NepalNews A statement issued by the Maoists said they called off the blockade till the first meeting of the reinstated House of Representatives (HoR)

Declare Constituent Assembly On First Day Of Parliament

I am glad for it. There are many people who share their sentiment that a constituent assembly is the bottom line. I doubt anyone in the seven party alliance will disagree. But a continued blockade would have been against the spirit of the people.

In The News

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SPA leaders all set to take up the reins of the new govt.
Transportation services return to normal
EU, Australia welcome king's proclamation to reinstate parliament
The new govt. should stick to its roadmap: Editorials
WFP urges resumption of food aid deliveries
House restored: What next?
UK, Denmark welcome reinstatement of parliament
India, China welcome new political developments in Nepal

We'll be a separate party in parliament too: NC-D Kantipur Publications
NC expels Pun, Koirala; discusses agendas for parliamentary meet
Maoists lift blockade until first meet of Parliament
Soldiers kill 6 people protesting rape in Morang
‘House should go for constituent assembly’
India welcomes restoration of multiparty democracy
'Maoist militia could be incorporated in RNA'
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अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय समुदायको स्वागत
ँमाओवादीका सेना समाहित गर्न तयार’
संसद् सचिवालयमा कामको चटारो
खुसियालीमा देशभर सभा
प्रदर्शनमा संविधानसभा माग
सहिद परिवारलाई दस वर्षसम्म १ हजार
ँआन्दोलनको दबाब जारी’
पुनर्निर्माणको थालनी
परिवर्तन जनताका लागि
सात दलको निर्णय
पुनःस्थापित संसद्को कार्यसूची
जनताको रोडम्याप

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From: "Nepal" nepal@forum-asia.org
To: nepal@forum-asia.org
Subject: [forum-asia] FA Statement on Nepal Situation - Nepalese King retreats in the face of People's power
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:32:35 +0700

Please find herewith attached the statement of FA on Nepal.

We have emphasized that:

“The government of King Gyanendra must be directly held accountable for the atrocities committed by the Nepalese security forces against the unarmed protestors, as well as other gross and systematic human rights violations, repressive laws and restriction on basic freedoms imposed since 1 Feb. 2005.”

We also called upon the Seven Party Alliance and the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M) to immediately declare a nationwide ceasefire and pursue a just resolution of the armed conflict through dialogue and political settlement and Seven Party Alliance to fulfill its six-point Joint Declaration for a United Effort to Resolve the National Crisis brought out on 8 May 2005, which speaks about their road-map towards democracy and peace.

Once again in solidarity with people in Nepal,

Anselmo Lee
Executive Director

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