Condemn Violence
THE country has already seen much blood shed
and loss of enormous life and property in the last five years because of the violence and
insurgency perpetrated by the ( Maoists). About 1500 people including security personnel
and innocent civilians have been killed and property worth billions of rupees has been
damaged. The violence and insurgency have severely affected the development activities in
some western hilly districts. Maoist insurgents have been resorting to killing political
activists, security personnel and innocent civilians and looting and destroying public
property in the name of "people’s war". Only the other days, the Moist
launched the biggest-ever offensive in Dunai, headquarters of Dolpa, in which 12 policemen
lost their lives and more than three dozen others were injured while fighting with the
insurgents. Rebels also robbed over 50 million rupees from Dunai branch of Nepal Bank Ltd,
, destroyed several key installations including district land revenue office, district
administration office, district police office, and district jail and released prisoners.
Nepal is a democratic country that allows all individuals and organisations to carry out
their political activities peacefully within the framework of constitution. When
constitution itself has guaranteed the right to carry out political activities openly in a
peaceful manner, the violent approach is clearly against the democratic political system
that was ushered in ten years ago. Moreover, the government has openly called upon the
insurgents to give up violence and come to negotiating table to solve the problem
peacefully. Despite government’s liberal and flexible approach, the insurgents have
not been positive enough about it. The fundamental duty of the government is to maintain
law and order and protect life and property of the people. At a time when the government
has already issued strict instruction to all concerned bodies to take necessary measures
to maintain law and order in the country, the incident in Dolpa comes as a big challenge
to it. Violence breeds violence and no political, social and economic goals can be
achieved by means of killing innocent people and looting public property. As the country
has already suffered much, more violence only ruins the prosperity of the nation. In this
situation, violence must be condemned from all sections of the society and all political
parties, organisations and people need to be united such killings and looting. At the same
time, government needs to strengthen law and order and assure the people that their life
and property is secured.
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