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| Kathmandu Thursday April 04, 2002 Chaitra 22, 2058. |
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Maoist
atrocities
This refers to the news
story titled "Will 2026 BS SLC topper disrupt its happening this year?" dated
March 31, 2002, TKP.
After this story, the
outlawed Maoist fugitives called off the five day long nationwide bandh and SLC examinees
have begun to write their papers without much harassment. But the Maoists, led by Babu Ram
Bhattarai, disrupted last year’s academic calendar, calling bandhs regularly. The
Maoists often closed down educational institutions and even tortured teachers when they
attended their schools. This is a kind of cruelty imposed on students and teachers. Such
cruelty also underlines the "poor" ideology preached by the 1970’s topper.
If Bhattarai were a really good student, he would not have opted violence against
students. He appears more a barbarian than a human who learns lessons to sow seeds of
non-violence in this country. Bhattarai is not better than Saudi millionaire Osama bin
Laden.
I think the Maoist way
of violence to achieve the goal — that is to overthrow the present government and
establish an autocratic communist system in this country — will never materialise.
Nepali society is not as horizontal as the Chinese. It is more vertical in form and
content, thus the practice of non-violence has been more practical to restore peace.
Killings will remain a mere goal of the Maoist ideologue rather than establish a (crude)
law to rule this country.
The students appearing
in the SLC examination will remember this year as the year of Maoist atrocities.
Suraj Bhattarai
Jhapa |
