LETTERS (Spotlight Weekly)

Crisis At The Top

The serious crisis at the political level has started seeping into all fronts of national life ("Koirala Under Attack", SPOTLIGHT, April 6). The stench of political rot is slowly beginning to affect common citizens. The times are really dangerous. Every sane citizen agrees that the time has come for a total revamp of the existing system. For starters, those at the helms of affairs should leave the scene to allow a fresh breath of air to come inside. Since there is a crisis at the top, the solution, too, should be searched from there.

Niraj KC
Lazimpat

Don’t Turn Bloody

The incidents at Rukumkot and Mainapokhari have indicated that Maoists are turning violent by the day ("Koirala Under Attack", SPOTLIGHT, April 6). Their demand for changes in the political system may be right, but that does not justify the spilling of blood in the remote hills. By killing their own fellow citizens, Maoists cannot claim to be working in the interest of their motherland. How can they justify the killing of their own brothers and sisters? This is sheer terrorism. You cannot hide this truth by any ideological shroud.

Dinesh Thapa
Kalimati

Why The Small Fish?

The killing of innocent civilians and junior police officers will not earn the Maoists a good name ("Koirala Under Attack", SPOTLIGHT, April 6). While the political masters whom the Maoists have their grievances against are staying in relative safety, petty officers and civilians are being forced to bear the brunt of their violence. And for what? Is the police constable stationed at the Rukumkot responsible for the ills against which Maoists supposedly claim to work? Or can that constable fulfill their demands? All this violence is absurd and beyond any logic.

Krishna Hari Bista
Satdobato

Bloody Projection

Last week saw the Maoists capture the headlines for all the wrong reasons ("Koirala Under Attack", SPOTLIGHT, April 6). Although they claimed tremendous publicity, their projection was all in negative light. Any sane person will now have second thoughts over the real intention of the Maoists. If they are working to uplift the status of the poor Nepalese people, there are better and constructive ways to do that. Chopping off the head of a fellow citizen and riddling his body with bullets cannot be the way to go. How can such terror tactics be fruitful?

Sudesh Shrestha
Patan

We Don’t Want A Kashmir

The bloody war in Kashmir has resulted in more and more deaths in the once-beautiful valley in northern India ("Koirala Under Attack", SPOTLIGHT, April 6). We do not want same thing to happen to our country. The en masse killing of police personnel and rampant terrorizing of civilians will take Nepal on the same deadly course. There is one-way traffic on the road to terrorism. Returning from that road is extremely difficult, if not impossible. All Nepalese need to seriously ponder the recent happenings in the country and prevent at any cost a civil war from occurring here.

Jeevan Rai
Satdobato

Dialogue Is The Best

The government and the Maoists must come to the negotiating table ("Koirala Under Attack", SPOTLIGHT, April 6). No more life should be put in jeopardy. There is no cure to this problem except for dialogue. Seriousness among both the government and the Maoists is a prerequisite for such dialogue to be fruitful. Many innocent lives have already perished in vain. The two parties must come to table if only to save innocent lives.

Geeta Khadka
Thapathali

Bad Intention

The way the joint verification team is dragging its feet on the issue of verifying the Bhutanese refugees, it seems that there is an ill intention on the part of Bhutanese authorities ("Waiting For Results", SPOTLIGHT, March 30). If not, why are they taking so much time to establish the status of the refugees? The Bhutanese are using the same old tactic of dilly-dallying the issue. It could be possible that they are genuinely indifferent to solving this impasse. It was only due to tremendous international pressure that they agreed to verify refugees in the first place.

Dayaram Karki
Sinamangal