Two Serial Bomb blasts in two days and what is this incompetent and impotent government doing? Write to the PM and demand answers NOW.
it didn’t take very long for this to happen did it? barely has the ink dried on the post warning against Prachanda’s Charm offensive where this blogger contended that Maoist leader is merely trying to lull his enemies into complacency while aiming to seize absolute power for himself and his motley crew comes the news that the slimy snake that he is he has already began to hiss and bare his fangs.
Maoist chairman Prachanda, expected to lead the next government in Nepal, has warned the media against criticising his party, saying that “we will no longer tolerate criticism as we have already been elected by the people”.
Addressing a rally to celebrate the declaration of republic in Kathmandu Prachanda said his CPN-Maoist will not tolerate further criticism by the media and warned of serious consequences if it continued to criticise the party.
Targeting the Kantipur publication that brings out the largest circulated dailies Kantipur and The Kathmandu Post, the former rebel leader said, “You journalists did well to continuously criticise the Maoists before the constituent assembly polls, otherwise the election would not have taken place at all.”
“Now we will no longer tolerate criticism as we have already been elected by the people,” he said, adding that the other newspapers criticising the Maoist will also meet the same fate.[link]
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that it didn’t take him long to start operationalising the standard operating procedures manual used by the communists worldwide to incrementally seize absolute power by first threatening the Free and thriving Nepali media. simply because a free media with its ability to scrutinise their working is what the Communists universally dislike. since it is a huge obstacle in executing the next step of their manual, viz blowing off the heads of all the opposition leaders and supporters, subverting the autonomous institutions of the state such as the Judiciary, the Election commission and the Nepali Army, and installing a banana republic in place where a small privileged elite called the politburo led by himself ofcourse get to dictate the lives of millions of Nepalis.
and all this While the left-liberal Indian and Western media go gaga over Prachanda’s charm offensive and give him and his band of thuggies a free pass and look the other way while they get down to the work of destroying Nepal and terrorising its people into submission.
It is therefore imperative on all free thinking people both in Nepal and the rest of the world to frustrate the dubious Maoist-Communist agenda in Nepal. The Nepali people unfortunately conceded far too easily on the Maoist demands to abolish the monarchy which was a very big mistake. I believe they should have instead replaced Gynanedra with a more acceptable individual and retained the institution as a constitutional monarchy which would have been a symbol of stability for Nepal.
But now that the deed has been done it is doubly important that they do not concede ground on the Right to freedom of speech and expression. Prachanda’s contention that the Media should not criticise him and his party because now they have been elected by the people is laughable. if that is the case then no one should criticise George bush or Gordon brown or Manmohan singh or any of the parties they belong to since even they were elected by the people.
The Nepali mediamen did the right thing by immediately condemning Prachanda’s statement and asking him and his party to demonstrate their commitment to the democratic process.
On India’s part it is absolutely imperative that the Indian government should openly come out in support of the Right to Freedom of Speech and association in Nepal and roundly condemn this statement by Prachanda and demand that he disarm his militia and submit to the democratic political process in Nepal.
Update: Nepal’s newly minted Propoganda minister seems to have disappeared and is suspected to have gone to China on an all expenses paid trip sponsored by the Chinese embassy ostensibly perhaps for some advanced training on the nuances of terrorising the Nepali media into toeing the party line. coincidentally at the same time as his boss Prachanda has begun to threaten the Nepali media of “serious consequences” if they continued to hold him and his motley crew accountable for their actions.
To the fattened lards of Beijing and their idiotic apologists in the Indian diplomatic establishment who foolishly rushed the Indian government into officially recognising Tibet as a part of China back in 2005 as a fait accompli comes a sharp reminder that even after six decades of brutal repression Tibet is far from pacified. And if the Communist regime still continues to refuse to negotiate a political settlement with the Dalai Lama, Tibet could well turn out to be the Achilles heel of their carefully constructed “harmonius” society where the cookie will begin to crumble like it did back in 1989.
For a repressed society like China whose regime depends for its survival in successfully enforcing a climate of fear any act of defiance of the regime in any part of the country could easily give the others in other parts of the country with their own grievances the courage to rebel against it. A bushfire that the Chinese regime is very aware of and would want to avoid.This is what exactly happened back in 1989 when months of street protests in Tibet which though later brutally crushed also gave courage to people in the Chinese heartland to also come out into the streets in defiance of the murderous regime and which was again crushed by the authorities in tianamenen square with the very same brutality.
But the China of 1989 is not the same as the China of 2008. In the intervening years China has emerged from its hermetical isolation to being very closely integrated with the rest of the world and it can at this time ill afford to use the same tactics that it did back then to continue to hold onto power if things reach a tipping point and people come out onto the streets again especially if they do so on the eve of the olympics in August.
Because inspite of the breathtaking economic development that has taken place in the last 19 years raising the living standards of millions of people there is no shortage of grievances against the regime in every part of the country. The regime is guilty of illegally seizing land from farmers and homeowners without adequate compensation to build its shiny factories and business parks whose proceeds go onto line the pockets of the communist party bosses. There are periodic protests against such land acquisition in China, The Chinese regime also brutally supressed the falungong spiritual movement and
imprisoned, tortured and murdered thousands of its adherents in the Chinese heartland itself, It has failed to keep the solemn promise it had made to Hong Kong of allowing democratic self rule on the eve of its return to Chinese rule a decade ago and has since then delayed the holding of free and fair elections with universal sufferage there on some pretext or the other gaining the ire of the people there and thus making Taiwan wary of any reunification talks with Beijing.
This entire edifice of fear could come crumbling at a moment’s notice and especially if one group can show sustained defiance of the regime or a considerable period of time. And the Tibetans have a history of doing just that.
And this time comrade Hu Jintao as President may not have the same tools at his disposal to deal with widespread unrest if it erupts now that he had as martial law administrator of Tibet back in 1989. Any act of mass murder whether in Tibet or in the Chinese heartland could seriously backfire by leading to a boycott of the Olympics and also the products with a Made in China label from the rest of the world destroying the basis of the very export led economic growth and perceived “national prestige” that has temporarily pacified some sections of society there.
So one can expect the Chinese authorities to move very carefully till atleast the end of the Beijing Olympics and then seek revenge against its tormentors later.that is hoping that they can somehow put the lid on things till then.
The Hindu, the unofficial communist mouthpiece in India cannot hide its glee at what it calls a “meticulously planned attack” by the Naxals on a police armoury, station and a training school in Nayagarh, Orissa last night which killed more than 14 people and injured many more including many civilians.
Maoists kill 14 in meticulosly planned attack in Orissa
Nayagarh (Orissa) (PTI): Maoists killed 14 people, including 13 policemen, and took away a huge quantity of arms and ammunition in a meticulously planned attack on a police station, police training school and armoury here in Nayagarh district late Friday night.
A group of nearly 100 maoists, including women cadre armed with guns and bombs launched the attack at 11:00 pm last night, the first attack in coastal Orissa a mere 90 km from the state capital, and a rerun of the March 2006 attack on a sub-jail in Udaygiri in Gajapati district and looting of an armoury in Koraput town earlier in February 2004.
Nayagarh Superintendent of Police Rajesh Kumar said while 10 policemen were were shot dead by the maoists at the police training school, a civilian died after being caught in the crossfire at the Daspalla police station, 30 km away.
The two other police casualties occurred when the maoists, retreating after attacking the Mahipur police outpost shot them dead, the SP said.
The maoists took away all the arms in the district armoury and the police training school in a truck and a hijacked bus.
Landmines laid by the maoists while retreating at Majuriapali near here injured one person.
Very difficult to miss the triumphant language used while recounting the body count of this gruesome incident and the spoils taken away by the marauders. there is absolutely no sympathy for the innocent people killed in the barbaric attacks anywhere in this article by this newspaper. It makes one wonder where the sympathy of this paper really lies? what kind of an India do they envision if they condone violence and lawnessness in this manner? Is this how a “respectable” newspaper should behave in this hour of tragedy?
Sometimes a lot can be said in Humour. And no one better to say it than the Onion
Chinese authorities Execute 10 Million Recalled Toys
BEIJING—In an attempt to assure the world’s children that the millions of Chinese-made toys currently being recalled for containing toxic lead paint and tiny choking hazards canno longer hurt them, high-level Chinese officials announced Tuesday that millions of playthings are being rounded up and immediately put to death.
In the past six weeks, Mattel Inc. has recalled more than 20 million toys from China that are believed to contain lead paint and other safety defects, a situation that prompted the Chinese government to send People’s Liberation Army forces into major industrial sectors to mercilessly slaughter any remaining items that have not been exported for sale overseas. So far, an estimated 9 to 10 million toys, from anonymous dolls and miniature cars to trademarked characters such as Thomas the Tank Engine, Curious George, and Big Bird have been reportedly kicked, smashed with rifles, shocked with electric batons, hanged, pounded with nails, had their ears severed and eyes gouged out, and were then shot.
A toy-abuse-monitoring group, the Association for the Advancement of Plastic People (AAPP), said it has gathered evidence suggesting that the Chinese government has also detained an additional 20 million toys for questioning. According to the group, even toys that contained only trace levels of lead paint were loaded onto trains bound for detention centers in remote provinces of Western China, where they were allegedly deprived of sleep, burned with cigarettes, and subjected to traditional Chinese water torture.
The AAPP also released video smuggled from an unidentified detention center showing Chinese intelligence officers attempting to extract information on the whereabouts of suspected lead-tainted toys from a Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Doll, despite the fact that she was capable only of asking for her bottle and playing peek-a-boo. The gruesome footage shows the doll’s eyes being forcibly taped open and her lack of genitals being melted with a soldering iron.
Government officials, however, still refused to confirm the whereabouts of Thomas the Tank Engine, rumored to have been splintered into pieces by attack dogs in Manchuria. Nor would it address allegations that hundreds of toy steam shovels in Guangdong Province were forced to dig their own graves before they were executed.
That is what this sobering analysis by that much maligned page 3 rag paper, ToI says in the aftermath of the latest outrage in Hyderabad last saturday. It says that after Iraq, India is the only country with the highest casualty rates due to terrorism and Iraq is officially a war zone!
Which means of all the countries that are “technically” at peace India is the one that has suffered the most in the past decade and infact has suffered more casualties than even most other regions of the world put together.
In fact, India has since 2004(when the UPA came to power -ed) lost more lives to terrorist incidents than all of North America, South America, Central America, Europe and Eurasia put together.
All of these vast swathes of the globe lost a total of 3,280 lives in terrorist incidents between January 2004 and March this year. India alone lost 3,674 lives over the same period of three years and three months.
If that page 3 rag paper was so outraged as to interrupt its regular programming of half-naked ladies on the one hand( that too during a weekend!) and pimping for the Wagah candle kissers lobby on the other hand then one can only imagine what would it be like among the public. Perhaps Mr Sardesai and his trusted minion Mr Yogendra Yadav can come up with another make believe poll to gauge the public sentiment.
One year ago more than 200 innocent people doing nothing more than returning home from a hard day’s work were brutally murdered and hundreds more were injured in the name of an insidious and perverted ideology.
But the perpetrators of this dastardly crime are still at large and even basic security measures to make sure such tragedies never occur are yet to be taken. Our politicians aided by the heavily politicised media are more than happy to brush this and other such incidents under the carpet by invoking the so called “Mumbai spirit” and thus escape their own responsibilities to ensure safety and security in the vulnerable public places across the country.
A week after July 11, 2006, Western Railways installed close circuit television (CCTV) cameras at seven of the 28 suburban railway stations in Mumbai. It was decided that a total of 530 CCTV cameras would be installed throughout the suburban rail network. This has not happened yet, as mandarins continue to dither over whether it would be cheaper to hire these cameras rather than buy them.
This is just the tip of the iceberg that no one seems to be worried about crashing into time and again. As we did in the days following July 11, 2006, we’ll hear more about the indomitable spirit of Mumbaikars this week. By extension that’s the tragic tale of India and its general approach to terrorism: we can handle every tragedy; all we have to do is to keep calling it ‘moral victory’.[HT]
A former member of an radical Islamist terrorist group, Jemaah Islamiya, a group affiliated to Al-Qaeda, Dr Tawfik Hamid has severely criticised the liberal “intellectuals” and self proclaimed “progressives” for obfuscating the threat of radical Islamist ideology to the world at large and also being an obstacle to reformation in the Islamic world.His criticism also holds good for our own homegrown “intellectuals”.
Yet it is ironic and discouraging that many non-Muslim, Western intellectuals–who unceasingly claim to support human rights–have become obstacles to reforming Islam. Political correctness among Westerners obstructs unambiguous criticism of Shariah’s inhumanity. They find socioeconomic or political excuses for Islamist terrorism such as poverty, colonialism, discrimination or the existence of Israel. What incentive is there for Muslims to demand reform when Western “progressives” pave the way for Islamist barbarity? Indeed, if the problem is not one of religious beliefs, it leaves one to wonder why Christians who live among Muslims under identical circumstances refrain from contributing to wide-scale, systematic campaigns of terror.
Western feminists duly fight in their home countries for equal pay and opportunity, but seemingly ignore, under a façade of cultural relativism, that large numbers of women in the Islamic world live under threat of beating, execution and genital mutilation, or cannot vote, drive cars and dress as they please.
Ouch! that hurts especially when it is one of those former “misguided youths” who is taking a potshot at thee.
While their Comrades across the border are busy butchering innocent villagers, killing Policemen and assaulting an Union minister in the very hall of the Indian Parliament itself. The Maoist thugs in neighbouring Nepal in true Communist style have broken every one of the treaties they had signed with great fanfare a few months ago and are now single mindedly aiming to undermine the current interim government and seize full political power for themselves.
The End Game: Maoists fail to Abide by the Peace agreement
“The mere absence of war is not peaceâ€, said J. F. Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis. This statement is relevant to Nepal’s context today. Despite repeated assurances from the Maoists that they have retracted from violent politics, the reality is vastly different. Clearly, the Maoist have made a travesty out of the peace process and arms management. It has become obvious that the elections to the Constituent Assembly cannot be held in the stipulated time frame for mid June. This unfortunate circumstance is mainly due to the failure of the government to confine Maoist to peacetime politics. This failure consequently led to the rapid deterioration of law and order. The ramification of the postponement of the elections is immense – a fluid political vacuum.
This is very much on expected lines. The standard communist practice is to consider every peace treaty as a mere timeout to regroup and rearm for the next round. In my post on the very next day this treaty was signed i had said.
The key ingredient necessary for this accord to succeed is to make sure that the Maoists are disarmed. As long as they are armed, they are dangerous and can renege on any ‘agreement’ signed on a ‘piece of paper’ any time they wish. It is absolutely imperative for the Nepal govt and the international community to make sure that all the arms are taken away from the Maoist groups and they are disbanded as a fighting force.
This observation had been made keeping in mind the treacherous history of the Communist movement. From the undermining of the Alexander Kerensky’s interim government in Russia by the Bolsheviks in 1917 to the backstabbing of the Nationalist Chinese government distracted by the Japanese invasion of China in 1930’s by the Chinese Communists to the Communist North attacking South Korea first in 1950 to the efforts by the Vietnamese Communists to undermine South Vietnam in the 1950’s, the whole history is there for those who care to learn from it.
This week saw three events in quick succession involving India’s accursed communists, the first was the beastly act in Nandigram in West Bengal where the communists are in power and using the machinery of the state butchered the common man in the dozens with all the accompanying claptrap, gaudy red rhetoric that it was for their own good in true classical Soviet-Chinese-Khmer Rouge style, the next in Chhattisgarh where another more “purer” and virulent strain of the same gutter virus, this one known to toxicologists as the ‘Naxalite(Maoist)’ strain murdered more than 50 policemen in cold blood because they were agents of the state, and ofcourse the one involving the more domesticated, scotch and soda sipping, suave, but always obstructive and a no do-gooder “mainstream” political outfit which this time contented itself by “merely trying” to assault and manhandle a minister of the Union government in the very heart of Indian democracy- the hall of the parliament itself!
As repulsive and disgusting as the above incidents are the response of the so called watchdog of democracy, the mainstream media and the self appointed “secular” conscience keepers of the country, the “intellectuals”, assorted NGO’s and the human terrorist rights mafia is even more disgusting. Their one line excuse on behalf of their comrades for each one of the above incidents -It is the other guy’s fault.