NOTE: This is autoposted. I’m still in Italy and won’t be around to respond to any comments.
In his recent roundup, Curzon mentioned briefly that the Maoists in Nepal will be able to keep their arms under the latest deal. It seems that Lebanon has taught us nothing.
Nepal peace process back on track with arms-monitoring dealThe Maoists will be allowed to keep their arms, but will be confined to barracks under deal struck Wednesday.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL ““ Nepal’s peace talks, which a top rebel leader had termed on Monday as “on the verge of collapse,” got a new lease on life Wednesday with with the government and Maoist rebels sorting out differences on management of rebel arms. Talks between Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and Maoist chairman Prachanda Wednesday afternoon ended with the two sides agreeing to confine the rebel fighters and their weapons within designated cantonment areas under United Nations supervision during the upcoming election process. Mr. Koirala stepped back from his earlier request to the UN to decommission rebel forces.
Allowing the rebels to keep their arms is national suicide. Don’t confuse that with the likelihood of them disarming, but this compromise leaves them the dominant power in Nepal, but simple majority and in terms of force. Real compromise and national reconciliation cannot occur with an armed group dominating.
Nepal is one of the many challenges facing the international community. In the unlikely event that violence doesn’t return, there is nothing left to rebuild in Nepal, it’s completley broken. It is for exactly that reason, for example, that independence for Chechnya is such a bad idea. Nepal needs an overwhelmingly superior outside force to impose peace on it. In 50 years, people can squabble about who’s guilty of what when they have the luxury to do so.
As Georgia knows, in the marketplace for international peacekeepers, demand is high and supply is low. I stand by my previous suggestion which is to turn Nepal into an international protectorate. After that the next best option would be annexation by India.
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ComingAnarchy.com » Blog Archive » Creating Facts on the Ground added these pithy words on Aug 26 06 at 4:05 pm[...] Given that the Maoists already control a good portion of the country, the current ceasfire gives them de facto rule over it and an opportunity to consolidate control, reorganize and regroup not to mention train soldiers. The situation sounds eerily familiar to Lebanon. In keeping with Mao’s stages of guerilla war, the Maoists are now turning themselves into a conventional army to make the final push into the capital. Like the many so-called ceasefires and agreements during Vietnam, this one is nothing more than a ploy. What say you? [...]
BaBu Ram added these pithy words on 12 Aug 06 at 10:42 pmYou are not informed enough to be a fool. Why do you post such nonsense ?
Curzon added these pithy words on 13 Aug 06 at 10:19 amAs a blog admin, I should note to readers that BaBu’s email address is “rednepal@...” Just so we know with what ‘perspective’ we’re dealing with here.
But maybe BaBy would like to tell us why Chirol’s analysis is nonsense instead of just stating that it is and expecting us to take his word for it.
siddharth ram added these pithy words on 13 Aug 06 at 3:37 pmcurzon,
Regular visitors of this blog and other ones always come across people like babu ram who make rhetorical statements and make no attempt to clarify/elucidate their claims. It is a waste of time trying to argue or rather even reason with such people.
Naman Mantra added these pithy words on 14 Aug 06 at 3:16 amAnyway, I don’t think Nepal would be able to join India. I bet India wouldn’t want to deal with all the crap in that country. India doesn’t seem to want anything to do with such a country. If I was India, I certainly wouldn’t.
But it’s possible.
