RE: (UNN) The Main Cause of the Crisis in Nepal : Dirgha Raj Prasai : Interesting/Must Read
Ashutosh Shrivastav
The following press release was issued by UNN regarding UNMIN’s disastrous failure in Nepal.
TEXT:
The recent release of hitherto unknown videotapes, dating to January 2008, of Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal addressing PLA cadres at the Shaktikhor Cantonment has prompted renewed calls for accountability on the part of the United Nations Mission in Nepal [UNMIN]. In these tapes, the Maoist Chairman, who is now the incumbent caretaker Prime Minister of the Government of Nepal, explicitly states his intention to pursue the following goals:
a.) To deliberately mislead the UNMIN and the Interim Government of Nepal as to the true size of the PLA forces,
b.) To defraud the state by redirecting funds intended for martyrs’ families into his party’s own coffers,
c.) To utilize the PLA forces confined to cantonments for purposes of intimidation and violence against civilians and opposing party cadres,
d.) To only permit the Constituent Assembly elections to take place if a Maoist victory could be assured,
e.) To force indoctrinated PLA cadres into the Nepal Army and ensure the ultimate subordination of Nepal’s national army to the Maoist Party.
The very existence of these tapes is an indictment of the UNMIN’s management of the peace process and of the April 2008 Constituent Assembly elections. The UNMIN gave assurances that 32,250 PLA combatants had been registered for consideration for integration into the Nepal Army, of whom 19,602 cadres had been confirmed in the first phase of the verification process as per the agreed-upon criteria. Yet Maoist Chairman Dahal’s own statements reveal that the PLA’s active cadres have never numbered more than 8,000, which means that the UNMIN has “verified” for integration at least 11,000 more cadres than ever existed in the first place!
The United Nationalist Nepalese contends that this appalling lapse in accountability has called into question the entire verification process undertaken by the UNMIN during its two-and-a-half year tenure, and this process now must necessarily be started all over again. The revelations contained in the Shaktikhor tapes have also called into question the integrity of the April 2008 Constituent Assembly elections. Although the UNMIN provided assurances at the time that the polling was both free and fair, the statements made by Mr. Dahal in the Shaktikhor tapes have renewed interest in the allegations of electoral intimidation and fraud which gained wide currency in the Nepalese press at that time.
The trust which the Nepalese people and the international community placed within the UNMIN has been squandered by these revelations. The United Nationalist Nepalese calls on the UNMIN leadership, and most specifically Chief Representative Ms. Karin Landgren and former Chief Representative Mr. Ian Martin, to provide full and satisfactory explanations to the Nepalese people on the following points:
a.) The vast disparity between the apparent real quantity of PLA cadres and the quantity counted by the UNMIN,
b.) The widespread reports of Maoist harassment and ballot-booth capturing which purportedly took place in the course of the April 2008 polling, notwithstanding UNMIN assurances of a fair election,
c.) The abduction and murder by PLA cadres of Mr. Ram Hari Shrestha at Shaktikhor Cantonment under the watch of an UNMIN monitoring team in May 2008, as well as every other report of violence in UNMIN-monitored cantonments.
Jai Nepal!
May Shri Pashupati Nath Bless Nepal!
May Shri Gautam Buddha Bless Nepal!
Signed & Executed,
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Sincerely,
Ashutosh Shrivastav
Secretary General
United Nationalist Nepalese (UNN)
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Subject: (UNN) The Main Cause of the Crisis in Nepal : Dirgha Raj Prasai
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The Main Cause of The Crisis in Nepal
Dear editor, News Blaze.
I read the report -'Human Rights to Be Second-In-Command in Nepal's Army' by ORCHAR. We, Nepalese people are anxious reading the biased report of the Chief of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights-Nepal (OHCHR-Nepal), about the promotion of Major General Toran Bahadur Singh to lieutenant general and second-in-command of the Nepal Army despite widespread opposition. Why is it that OHCHAR-Nepal cannot understand the reality of the Nepal Army.
I am political analyst, although, I know Major General Toran Bahadur Singh is one of the honest man in our society. He is always supporting the Human rights on all fronts. The promotion is not controversial. So, respectfully, I suggest, not exercising in futility. So, I request for the correction of the mistake of ORCHAR. As we all know, the main objective of UNMIN is to establish peace in Nepal, but UNMIN have been found working against the peace process in Nepal. Nepalese people had expected that the UN's role would be impartial. But the UN could not remain neutral.
The UNMIN listens only to the Maoist rebels and the corrupt leaders of the so-called big party and totally disregarded the aspiration of the majority of the Nepalese people. By hatching such conspiracy of the UNMIN teams are working to push Nepal into a bloodier civil war and conflict. So, UNMIN & ORCHAR's misunderstanding is the main cause of the crisis in Nepal.
Two years ago, UNMIN's military chief Jan Erik Wilhelson damaged the neutral role of the UN and propping up the rebel forces. Does it indicate his neutral role and his effort to establish peace in the country when he participated in the function or even become the guest of honors accepting salute from the Maoist rebels at the function organized by the Maoists on the day they attacked the Nepal Army's barrack, killed so many army men and looted weapons.
When the National Army is inside the barrack, does it indicate the establishment of peace as he tried to present the Maoist militia at par with the National Army? It is all clear that all the YCL are Maoist militias and except a few hundred all those who are in the Maoist cantonments were new recruited and untrained bunch of people. Earlier, they said that their number was only 8,000. But later, the UNMIN and the Maoists worked together to present their number at (32,000 19,600 (confused) A few people have prevailed inside the UNMIN.
The Maoists and the UNMIN have only put old and out of order weapons in the cantonment and they kept all modern weapons and those they had looted from the army and the police with themselves. How can there be a lasting peace in such a situation? Isn't it that they are trying to play with the future of Nepal? Then, ORCHAR can't judge?
From the very beginning, UNMIN has been
demoralizing the Nepal Army and supporting Maoist and its rebel by allowing
them to keep the weapons with them in the cantonment and let them start the
youth force (YCL), who can be the law and order itself as they used to do
during their revolution. Nowhere in the world, would a country be able to
protect its sovereignty by making the national army weak and powerless? As
Nepal is a sovereign country, Nepalese army is free to do anything for the
country.
But, UNMIN is going to demoralize the sovereign Nepal's Army.
UN General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon also misguided from UNMIN and Ban Ki-Moon has urged for a national government participated by the Maoist. And he asked the government for not recruiting new personnel in the Nepal army and also not providing lethal arms to the Nepal army, a national security force. The national army can't compare with the Maoist's army. Now, in Nepal, we have two kinds of army- the national army and the Maoist's army. Can we imagine two kinds of army in a country? Why UNMIN and ORCHAR are not responsible for the overall management and supervision of Maoist army and their movement?
Sincerely yours
Dirgha Raj Prasai
Former Member of Parliament, Nepal.
Political Analyst.
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