All Hail the People's Revolution in Nepal!

[Adam Smith]

Ramo:

Originally posted by Ramo
The guerillas are pretty damn rotten, but the government is even worse. There're extrajudicial executions, "disappearances," indefinite detentions, arbitrary arrests, torture, the works......This isn't a pluralistic, free society that the Maoists are fighting against...

The point, as you can see on the AI site and on Human Rights Watch, and as I mentioned in a previous post, is that there is no evidence of any such activity by the government prior to the Maoist insurgency. So this cannot be sluffed off as a case of "everybody is equally bad". The responsibility, as I said before, lies squarely on the backs of the Maoists.

What's the distinction?

Taxes are voluntarily, though not necessarily happily, agreed to. Extortion, in this case, proceeds from the barrel of a gun. This has direct bearing on the alleged democratic nature of society in rebel-held areas.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Adam Smith
Are you describing the government's actions before or after the start of the Maoist insurgency?

I don't know what things were like before, but the way they are repressing it doesn't give me much faith in their attitude. There are numerous credible reports of civilians with no connection to the rebels being murdered by the Army, and the people in the villages I saw interviewed were clearly as frightened of the government as they were of the Maoists.

[Dr Strangelove]

Are you sure that this revolution isn't being backed by Beijing as a means to reduce the threat of revolt in Tibet?

[KrazyHorse]

Huh?

[Zoid]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Kamrat X/Tom201: You don't appear to know much about the government of Nepal. Tell me, on what do you base your knee-jerk support for the Maoist rebels. Somesort of commie brotherhood?

Yes, all commies are brothers. Didn´t you know that?

[chequita guevara]

Dr Strangelove, it's unlikely the "comrades" in Beijing are behind this. They haven't been pro-Communist since 1977, when Deng Xao Peng began his capitalist road. In fact, I think they'd not be too happy with it, because revolutions have a tendency to spread, even to counter-revolutionary states posing as Communist. Most of the Maoist parties of the world do not recongize the current PRC as a communist society or the CCP as a communist party. If the Chinese were behind it, I'd expect the rebels to be better trained and better armed.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Dr Strangelove, it's unlikely the "comrades" in Beijing are behind this. They haven't been pro-Communist since 1977, when Deng Xao Peng began his capitalist road. In fact, I think they'd not be too happy with it, because revolutions have a tendency to spread, even to counter-revolutionary states posing as Communist. Most of the Maoist parties of the world do not recongize the current PRC as a communist society or the CCP as a communist party. If the Chinese were behind it, I'd expect the rebels to be better trained and better armed.

Heh, Heh. This reminds me of an old Doonesbury cartoon series, in which Uncle Duke and his oreintal girlfreind go up to the sino-Soviet border to investigate the activities of Cuban troops moving into the area. Duke gets all excited about the possible threat of Cuban socialism to China before his girlfriend reminds him about China. It was writen in the late 1970s when Cuban advisors were popping up all over Africa and South America.

[chequita guevara]

Yeah, the Cubans were all gung-ho to support their breatheren in Africa and Nicaragua. They did a lot of good, too, bring doctors and teachers and medical supplies and food. And they helped the locals defeat the US sponsored terrorists in most cases.

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Yeah, the Cubans were all gung-ho to support their breatheren in Africa and Nicaragua. They did a lot of good, too, bring doctors and teachers and medical supplies and food. And they helped the locals defeat the US sponsored terrorists in most cases.

As opposed to the Russian supported Terrorists/death squads?

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Lonestar


As opposed to the Russian supported Terrorists/death squads?

Who was talking about the Russians?

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


Who was talking about the Russians?

Quiet, Frenchie.

[Giancarlo]

Che you are so misled it isn't even funny. You really want to know what this group is about? It doesn't represent the people, it only represents a bunch of power hungry thugs that are going to end being killed by the Nepalese Army that is undergoing a massive arms build up. If you watch even CNN, it shows pictures of the Nepalese Army and they have M-16A2s (from the Americans). The Rebels have old WWII **** weaponry. Guess who will win this? The Nepalese Army.

I mean who the **** wants to support a Pol Pot revolutionary group that should be hanged because they represent a danger to democracy and the rights of the people? Like every other commie group.

I won't respond to anything because I got a very busy week.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Giancarlo
I mean who the **** wants to support a Pol Pot revolutionary group that should be hanged because they represent a danger to democracy and the rights of the people?

Why don't you ask the US?

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Lonestar


Quiet, Frenchie.

I thought so.

[Goingonit]

Che, for all its drawbacks, the advantage of a multiparty system is that if the people want to change governments, they don't need revolution.

And though a revolution may need the support of the majority of the population, an armed uprising only needs the support of the majority of the armed population.