Barbaric Attacks
WITHIN days after the lifting of the State of Emergency in the country, a spate of attacks
have been carried out by the Maoist terrorists in different parts of the country,
including in Kathmandu. Civilians and security personnel have been killed in separate
attacks and property worth millions of rupees were destroyed. But the most barbaric attack
came on Saturday night, when Maoist terrorists armed with sophisticated weapons, attacked
a police post in Sindhuli district and almost fifty police personnel, including one
inspector and several junior officers were brutally murdered. According to some survivors,
many of the policemen were killed in cold blood by the terrorists. Coming as it did just a
day before the festival of Teej, when some fast for many hours praying for the long life
of their husbands, the brutal attack came as more of a shock. Hot on the heels of this
shocking news from Sindhuli, reports have been trickling down from Arghakhanchi in
mid-Western Nepal that many security personnel and others have been killed in another
barbaric carnage perpetrated by the terrorists there. The whole nation has been shocked by
this senseless murdering of innocent people and men doing their duty for their
country.Quite rightly, political parties and all others who want to see peace and
development in the country have roundly condemned the terrorist attacks. The Government
has also quickly swung into action and pressed reinforcement, consisting of the Royal
Nepalese Army, Armed Police Force and the Civilian Police to the affected areas and
according to a Home Ministry statement, intensive search operations are on to nab the
terrorists. At a time when many sections of the society were making efforts to give a
political outlet to the terrorist problem, though the government was steadfast in its
policy to deal firmly with the Maoist terrorists, the present attacks will prove a huge
setback for those voices that were mooting to bring the Maoists into the political
mainstream through dialogue. Now the government has no alternative than to take sterner
steps against the terrorists. When the whole world is showing solidarity to fight
terrorist activities, within one's borders and at an international level as well, the
Maoists are showing suicidal symptoms by carrying out such barbaric attacks. The
government, all political forces and the people must stand united against such terrorists
and put an end to their heinous activities.
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