Nepal Maoists refuse Peace w/out UN Participation

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Kathmandu: Nepal Maoists rule out peace talks without UN

http://www.cnvi.us/dtdsp.php?date=21-07-

2004&group=NW&sgroup=HD&seqno=15

 

(Note:The UN is backed by the same groups that are behind the

Maoists.Their agenda is to strip Hindu Nepal of its independence and

force a globalist's western backed govt upon Nepal.Once Nepal is in

their control, destroying India will be easy. If Kashmir can be

ripped away from India, the Nepal terror will subside.)

 

21-July-2004 Kathmandu, Nepal's Maoists have turned down the

government's peace overtures, saying there could be no talks without

UN mediation.

 

Maoist supreme leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal, aka Prachanda, said for a

peaceful solution to the turmoil, the government would have to agree

to a new constitution as well as UN mediation.

 

 

 

In a statement issued Tuesday evening, he said the newly appointed

government of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba had no authority and

was part of a ploy to militarise Nepal.

 

It was leading the nation to more chaos by ignoring the demand for a

constituent assembly and a committee that would draw up a new

constitution for Nepal, it said.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The statement came in reaction to the government announcement Monday

that it was taking measures to start peace talks.

 

The government said four committees were being set up to facilitate

dialogue with the Maoists. Two of them are headed by Deuba himself.

 

 

 

All the three governments that Nepal has had since 2002, including

the newly appointed Deuba government, have ruled out UN mediation

for peace talks.

 

They have said while Nepal would welcome help from the international

community to resolve the insurgency, it was an internal problem of

Nepal.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has repeatedly offered to help

mediate, as have some members of the European Union.

 

Russia too has backed the idea of UN mediation while condemning the

violence unleashed by the rebels.

Media reports said Valentin Soldatenkov, charge d' affaires at the

Russian embassy in Kathmandu, had said UN mediation was required to

find a negotiated settlement in Nepal.

 

At a programme in Kathmandu Tuesday to mark the 48th anniversary of

establishing diplomatic ties between Nepal and Russia, he also said

Russia condemned the "terrorist activities" carried out by the

Maoists.

 

 

Maoist guerrillas have abducted at least 50 students and a dozen

teachers from a school near Kathmandu over the weekend to try to

force them to back a campaign against the constitutional monarchy.

 

The rebels dragged the children, aged between 13 and 16, and their

teachers at gunpoint from the school in Chaimale village on Sunday

afternoon, officials said.

 

In the past the Maoists have kidnapped school and university

students from the countryside, but have sent them back after one or

two days of indoctrination, analysts said.

 

Villagers in hilly Chaimale village, 25 km south of Kathmandu, on

Monday said that about nine heavily armed guerrillas entered the two-

storey school building and took away students and teachers. Most of

the kidnapped students were girls.

 

Sunday's kidnapping of school children was the first in Kathmandu

Valley. "Well, if this happens like this - 15 to 20 minutes drive

from Kathmandu, what happens elsewhere in the country," said a man,

whose son was one of those abducted. Another woman could only cry

and kept repeating, "I want my children back."

 

The guerrillas have heavily mined the mountainous road leading to

Chaimale and its surrounding areas. Nepali troops cleared mines as

they combed forests on Tuesday for the hideouts of guerrillas, a

senior military official coordinating the operation told Reuters by

telephone.

 

In the past the guerrillas, seeking to set up a communist republic

in one of the world's poorest countries, have ordered village

families to send one child each to join their armed struggle.