Good questions...but I doubt Baburam will reply.
On the other hand, you coulda posed some of these
questions to our present-day inept government, who are
monkeys, as well. "Monkeys come and go but the organ
grinder stays the same" as some political analyst put it.
Such is the face of the governance of Nepal.
Answers to some of the posed questions (unless Baburam bothers
to answer them- ha ha) could be extrapolated from the past
experience of China - and by studying the Maoists' actions over the
years. Books and articles on the Maoist Insurgency have
come out and are still coming out.
Of course, the Maoist problem raging in Nepal is not as
simple as whatever the possible answers to your questions
may be. Well, I doubt if there is a single expert who can
answer them all to your heart's content, let alone Baburam.
The problem cuts across ethnicity, gender, historical neglect
and injustice, exploitation by the ruling and urban elites,
resource control, landlessness, serfdom, feudalism, exclusion,
discrimination, nepotism, corruption, etc. etc. etc.,
which is already more than a mouthful. Something had to
give, so it did. The problem is really a reflection of the
failure of the government, development sector, and all
concerned.
Now we have terrorists (Maoists) in the countryside and
state terrorism (trigger happy security forces) across
Nepal. Both are terrorists.
Know them for what they are: fighting machines
even though they may look like your brothers and sisters.
Both are brainwashed, and ready to serve their masters.
They are pawns in the power game. Increasingly, they
resemble each other in ferocity, human rights be damned.
I'm surprised that you are already taking sides. I am
not. The truth is: one is as likely to be finished off
by an Army bullet as by a Maoist bullet for no reason. They
say over 10,000 have been killed so far. I am wondering how
many of them were actually innocent. If you thought one system
is good the other bad or one better than the other in practice,
well think again. I for one think they are one and the same
- different in ideologies - but similar in actions. They
are the Tweedeldee and Tweedeldum -evil twins - of our
Himalayan country.
As systems I hate them both, as individuals I have equal
empathy for both the Army and the Maoist personnel. No
sympathy for their masters. Look closely at the army and
the Maoists: both have the same kind of farmer's face. But
who turned them both from tilling machines into killing
machines and for what reason? The executioner's face is
always well hidden.
Not more than a handful of puppet masters decide the fate
of millions of puppets that are indeed us. Whither goes
the democracy that I keep hearing about.
I could go on writing but soon my words would turn into a
meaningless ring.
