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• M. Brannon

  Regarding this statement,”He needs to reciprocate the Maoist ceasefire immediately.”
  Wouldn’t that mean the King and Royal Nepal Army should begin massive kidnappings, low grade military attacks, school closures and ransom collections.
  Despite the so-called cease fire, that is what the Maoists are doing. Reciprocate means to return in kind. Lets hope the King doesn’t take your advice.

  Perhaps you missed these story: Interesting to note that Maoists are against local control of schools. Of course being controlled by Internationalists from London the Maoists are totally against native control. WAKE UP BEFORE YOU ARE COLONIZED BY EUROPE AND THE UN!!!

  Killings continue in Nepal even during ceasefire Published:
  Wednesday, 7 December, 2005, 08:25 AM Doha Time
  “The Maoists have abducted over 8,000 civilians, forcibly recruited
  children, tormented and displaced army families and extorted money
  during the so-called truce,”

  http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?
  cu_no=2&item_no=63627&version=1&template_id=44&parent_id=24

  KATHMANDU: Blood continues to be spilled in Nepal despite the Maoist
  guerrillas extending their ceasefire with at least six people being
  killed in four days.
  The latest incident late Monday was reported from Dhuwankot village
  in northwestern Nepal’s Gorkha district, home of Maoist leader and
  architect-turned-rebel Baburam Bhattarai, with two guerrillas being
  killed in what the army described as an exchange of fire.
  Prakash Pokhrel and Shiva Karakheti aka Biraj were killed after a
  patrol came under bomb attack, the state media said.
  Three Maoists were killed on December 2, the day Maoist supremo
  Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda issued a statement saying his banned
  Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist had decided to extend their three-
  month unilateral ceasefire by another month out of respect for
  people’s desire for peace and to create an atmosphere conducive to a
  political solution.
  The army said it had lost a soldier the same day when he was hit by
  an improvised explosive device planted by the guerrillas.
  Meanwhile, Nepal’s army chief has accused Maoist rebels of continued
  attacks, abductions and killings despite announcing a unilateral
  ceasefire.
  General Pyar Jung Thapa said the military was determined to crush the
  insurgency, dismissing their four-month-old ceasefire as “crooked
  tricks” and a “ploy.”
  “The Maoists have abducted over 8,000 civilians, forcibly recruited
  children, tormented and displaced army families and extorted money
  during the so-called truce,” a military statement released yesterday
  quoted Thapa telling troops in eastern Nepal on Monday.
  On Friday, Nepal’s insurgent Maoists extended a three-month
  unilateral ceasefire by one month, a move welcomed by the Human
  rights groups accuse both the Maoists and the Royal Nepalese Army of
  abuses that include torture.
  The Maoists and seven mainstream opposition parties agreed last month
  to form an anti-royal alliance to restore democracy in the troubled
  Himalayan kingdom.
  The European Union and the Swiss government hailed the truce
  extension by the rebels and urged the government to reciprocate. –
  Agencies
  Maoists Force Closure Of Some 500 Schools In Nepal
  KATHMANDU, Dec 15 (Bernama) — Tens of thousands of children in western Nepal are being deprived of their right to study after Maoists forcibly closed some 500 schools, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported, quoting sources close to the teachers’ association in the Himalayan Kingdom.

  Despite their extension of unilateral ceasefire till January 2, the Maoists have forced the closure of 500 schools in Dhading, a district 70 km west of Kathmandu for indefinite period, the sources close to Nepal Teachers Association said.

  Tens of thousands of students are deprived of their right to study after the schools were closed from Sunday, they said.

  The schools were closed following a strike by the Maoist-affiliated All Nepal National Teachers Organisation demanding that temporary teachers be made permanent and also annulment of teachers license provision.

  Earlier, the pro-Maoist students organisation had closed down the schools opposing the government’s decision to hand over school management to the local community.

  15 December 2005, 18:07 pm

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• M. Brannon

  RIM has strong ties to both the “afghansis” and the São Paulo Forum.
  An amalgam of nominally Maoist terrorist organizations and guerrilla
  movements, it was founded in London in 1984. For years, its
  headquarters and publishing operations were located in the Russell
  House in Nottingham, England, named for the late Lord Bertrand
  Russell. RIM’s journal, A World to Win, was published for years by
  Russell Press, an affiliate of the one-worldist Bertrand Russell Peace
  Foundation.

  To this day, RIM enjoys the protection of the British Crown. Its
  current offices are located in London, which French government
  officials have recently labeled the “headquarters for world terrorism.”
  http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2246_rim_intro.html

  The British role in creating Maoism
  http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2246_british_and_maoism.html

  Old article on Nepal’s Maoist History
  Nepali CP looks
  to armed revolution

  by Ramtanu Maitra and Susan Maitra

  Unlike any other member of the London-based Revolutionary
  International Movement, the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) succeeded
  in coming into power, ruling this strategically placed Himalayan
  State, which borders both China and India, from 1994 through August
  1995. Under the direction of former Prime Minister Man Mohan Adhikari,
  the CPN is a power to reckon with, and will remain so for some time.
  The nearby “Naxalite” parties of West Bengal in India, which are also
  formal and informal members of RIM, have largely submerged themselves
  into tribal and peasant insurgent movements, and continue as a dormant
  capability.

  The Nepali communist movement is a product of the early 1950s. It
  started at a time when the landlord class, the Ranas, dominated
  Nepal’s socio-political system, including the monarchy. Together with
  the democratic movement under the Nepali Congress party, the
  communists were a part of the anti-Rana movement, but unlike the
  Congress party, began drawing on the support of China, which had
  become communist in 1949.

  The movement received a setback in 1960, when the ten-year-old
  democratic system that freed Nepal from the vise-like grip of the
  Ranas came to an end. King Mahendra dismissed the duly elected
  government of the Nepali Congress party, arrested Prime Minister B.P.
  Koirala and most of his colleagues, and announced a new “partyless
  panchayat system” which continued into 1990. All parties were banned.
  The CPN went underground, but was less seriously hampered than the
  formerly ruling Congress party. CPN meetings were held within Nepal,
  party manifestos were freely distributed, and journals reflecting the
  views of various of its factions were regularly published.
  Beijing vs. Delhi

  It is not clear why the CPN enjoyed these privileges that were not
  granted to the Congress party. But, there is no question that King
  Mahendra, in the wake of growing tensions between India and China, was
  getting closer to the militarily more powerful Beijing, and it is no
  secret that Beijing had close contacts with the CPN. Those were, of
  course, still the days when Mao Zedong was chanting “the eastern sky
  is red,” and pro-China forces were furnished with arms and money
  throughout South Asia, including Nepal.

  Soon, however, the CPN went through the split which hit almost every
  communist party in the region, in the wake of the growing animus
  between Moscow and Beijing. In the case of the CPN, one of the
  founders of the communist movement, Pushpa Lal Shrestha, became the
  flag bearer of the extreme Maoist brand. The differences between the
  two factions, which were branded as moderate and extremist, centered
  on relations with the monarchy. Pushpa Lal Shrestha opposed any
  trucking with the monarchy.

  It was evident, however, that Beijing was not quite ready to take
  sides with Pushpa Lal and forsake King Mahendra, who was issuing
  increasingly anti-India statements, to the chagrin of New Delhi. The
  conflict led to Pushpa Lal fleeing Nepal, and his expulsion from the
  party in 1962. The “royalist” wing of the party, led by Keshar Jang
  Rayamajhi and Shailendra Kumar Upadhyay, managed to keep control and
  maintain a delicate balance of the party’s loyalty between the
  monarchy in Kathmandu, and Mao’s men in Beijing.

  The 1969 release of the future prime minister and landowner from
  Biratnagar, Man Mohan Adhikari, probably the only CPN leader with
  sufficient stature to gain support of all party factions, was an
  important factor in providing the much-needed stimulus for reuniting
  and revitalizing the party. As a result of all this, Pushpa Lal
  Shrestha was brought back.

  The 1970s was a period of consolidation and retrospection for the CPN,
  as it was elsewhere for the communist parties in South Asia following
  the devastating impact of the brutal Cultural Revolution in China.
  Even during this period, the differences within the party hierarchy
  became evident. In 1971, during the uprising in East Pakistan which
  led to the birth of Bangladesh, the pro-Moscow Rayamajhi and the
  Maoist Pushpa Lal hailed the uprising as the “freedom struggle,” but
  the pro-Beijing Man Mohan Adhikari saw the struggle as “an aggression
  of India.”
  New conflicts planned

  The CPN continues to have close relations with North Korea, as do
  several other members of RIM. During the 1994 elections, the posters,
  manifestos, and pamphlets of the CPN were reportedly printed in
  Pyongyang and distributed in Nepal.

  Despite its democratic face, the CPN is not a passive Communist Party.
  In the Himalayan foothills, where Nepal meets India, is the area
  called the terai. Because of the climate and “business opportunities,”
  which often means smuggling contraband from one country to another
  across virtually unmanned borders, the face of the CPN in the terai
  resembles that of the neighboring militants in the Naxalbari area of
  West Bengal, India, the so-called Naxalites. The CPN believes that it
  shares the destiny of armed revolution that the Naxalites attempted in
  West Bengal.

  As the terai is the most politically conscious region in Nepal, and
  has been a traditional base for both the Nepali Congress party and the
  CPN, there is every likelihood that the CPN will choose the area as
  its point of conflict. The CPN’s strong anti-India image fits into
  this situation as well.
  http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2246_nepali_cp.html

  15 December 2005, 18:12 pm

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