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2007-02-14 India-Pakistan

Maoist leader calls for monarchys end in Nepal

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Posted by Steve White 2007-02-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Well Gooollleee, Sergeant Carter, who would've known that after allowing the Commies into the Gubmint they're gonna kill the monarchy anyways.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-02-14 00:10|| 2007-02-14 00:10|| Front Page Top

#2 "Ultimately, we will have to fight with the Indian army. That is the situation. Therefore, we have to take into account the Indian army. When the Indian army comes in with thousands and thousands of soldiers, it will be a very big thing. But we are not afraid of the Indian Army."---Prachanda, leader of the Maoists of Nepal, in an interview to a Maoist journalist of Latin America

Posted by john 2007-02-14 05:42|| 2007-02-14 05:42|| Front Page Top

#3 The Maoists could well win in Nepal but that would be a much bigger disaster, for they belong to the same tradition of ultra-egalitarian and anti-foreign extremism that animated the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and Sendero Luminoso (the Shining Path) in Peru. Mercifully, the latter group never attained power, but between 1975 and 1979 the Khmer Rouge murdered about a quarter of Cambodia's population in a drive to exterminate everybody who was a "class enemy" or had been exposed to foreign influences.

"Comrade Prachandra", the 42-year-old former horticulture teacher who is the Nepali Maoists' leader, never gives interviews, but the deputy leader, Baburam Bhattarai - whose PhD thesis was a Marxist analysis of Nepal's problems - was chilling when asked whether his movement's policies would be similar to those of the Khmer Rouge: "There is no independent and authentic account of events in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge available so far. Whatever is emanating from the Western media appears to be highly exaggerated." In other words, they are the same.

Posted by john 2007-02-14 05:48|| 2007-02-14 05:48|| Front Page Top

#4 john, you wanna arrange a meeting between this guy and Achmadiwhackjob?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-02-14 15:59|| 2007-02-14 15:59|| Front Page Top

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