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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Peace Process in Void

                                    ‘One country two armies’ situation ends in Nepal

‘One country two armies’ situation ends in Nepal! unfortunately,it does NOT.Unlike blustered by the people of the Special Committee for the Supervision, Integration,and Rehabilitation, peace process has not come to conclusion instead the "ignominious recruitment" of Maoist combatants into Nepalese Army has (more or less) led the whole peace process astray. As devised earlier, the intent of peace process was to minimize any prospect of arm struggle.Contrarily,the integration process has failed even to acknowledge this. The pundits of conflict management politicized the whole peace process. Their prolonged squabble on numbers and rank of combatants in integration was just bargaining chip for bigger pie.Maoists had interest in gaining high hand in army structure while non-Maoists hastened to dissolve the former's "P.L.A". What about the 2/3 of politically-indoctrinated  guerrilla-warfare-trained Maoist combatants?Who guarantees that they won't take up arms again,that they won't be used again?

Monday, October 1, 2012

India-Nepal in Assymetrical Relationship

From distant past to current unfolding of political drama, issue of nationalism has always become easy and handy tool for Nepalese political parties. It is not surprising that Baidhya-led Maoists want ban on Indian vehicles and 'obscene' movies. Nevertheless, the hardliners are partly right in that they seem not to acquiesce to unequal relationship imposed by the Indian government to the date. How come the Indian vehicles have frivolous access to Nepalese transport business and Nepalese ambulance (let alone private ones) can not enter into Indian territories!! Does not it sound little unjust? My concern is: the two nations should revise existing treaties based on equality. On doing so, initiation should be taken from both sides in diplomatic levels. Hopefully, CPN-Maoist's move would prove to be helpful rather than detrimental in taking this first step.
 (In response to Prashant Jha's article http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/maoist-splinter-continues-ban-on-indian-vehicles/article3952207.ece#comments)