CINA

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A story every day happens there

under the Isreali occupation...

Published in today's(2.12) edition of Haaretz

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=681040&contrassID=2&subContrassID=14&sbSubContrassID=0

"There will be a Vietnam here"

By Gideon Levy

The children threw stones, the border policemen threw grenades. The result: an 8-year-old boy in intensive care with a serious head injury, anesthetized and on a respirator, his situation serious but stable Abud moves his right leg for a moment. His left side is paralyzed. The respirator tube is stuck in his mouth, his little chest rises and falls at the rate dictated by the machine, his eyes are swollen and closed. A little boy in a coma. Will the border policemen who chased him in the alleys of the refugee camp, tossing stun grenades at little children, see him? Will they think about his fate - to die or to remain a cripple for the rest of his life? His head is bandaged, hiding the compressed fractures in his skull. The doctors will be able to assess the amount of brain damage only in a few days. This Sunday, two days after he was wounded, there was a slight improvement. A very slight one, says the doctor cautiously. But the child is not waking up. High up in the adjacent building lies an old man in a similar state: Ariel Sharon. But Abdel Malek Zalbani is only 8 years old, a third-grade pupil, a child of refugees. His pet name: Abud.

The Border Police come to the camp almost every day. The residents of the camp say that they provoke the children, they honk and they curse. The children throw stones at them. The border policemen throw grenades at the children, stun and smoke grenades. The thunder makes the walls of the houses tremble, the gas penetrates the crowded homes, suffocating their inhabitants, including many old and sick people, and many children. The residents place plastic sheets on their windows, but it doesn't help. That has been the situation for several months, since the construction work on the "Jerusalem envelope" wall began, in the valley at the end of this crowded refugee camp, Shoafat. There are 40,000 residents on two square kilometers, refugees from the Jewish Quarter of the Old City in 1967, Jerusalemites with blue ID cards like mine and yours. Sometimes it ends with temporary suffocation, sometimes it ends with brain damage, as in the case of the child Abud. It didn't happen during the evacuation of Amona, nor in the caravillas of Carmia, and therefore hardly anyone writes about it. The Justice Ministry's Police Investigation Unit is investigating: This week, investigator Shai phoned the central eyewitness, and after a few moments he cut off the conversation impatiently, after the witness asked the investigator to come to the scene of the incident. Investigator Shai refused to come, and said that he would call again 10 minutes later. Shai did not call back. The investigation was apparently finished. The eyewitness says that he saw Abud hurt by a stun grenade that hit his head. The Border Police claim that the child was hit by a stone thrown by one of his friends. Border Police spokeswoman Superintendent Sarit Philipson didn't even bother to reply to Haaretz. In the Shoafat camp, they are threatening to turn the camp into "Vietnam." At Hadassah University Hospital in Ein Karem, the doctors are fighting for Abud's life. The site of the incident: a junction of steep, narrow alleys that descend to the wadi and the wall that is gradually being built in the middle of it. Every house leads straight to the street where piles of garbage are strewn, including the remains of the Border Police grenades. Here is the house into which Abud was brought when he fled from the pursuing border policemen. The owner of the house, Ibrahim Amla, awoke to the smell of gas spreading in his house. Outside the children were running around, and Amla's sister rushed to bring Abud into their house. But the child immediately sneaked outside. Amla came out after him, and then he heard a loud noise, and immediately saw Abud fall on his face, his back to the border policemen and a great deal of blood flowing from his nose and his mouth. Amla is convinced that the stun grenade is what hit Abud. "The noise of the grenade came exactly when he fell." He identified the commander of the force who was standing behind the corner, a man named Yigal Larouche. Amla says that even after the boy fell, the border policemen did not approach him to administer first aid. Amla picked up the boy and brought him to his neighbor Ahmed Jamil, who was less out of breath than he was, and Jamil ran with the boy to the nearby clinic. The boy's father saw all that in his car mirror, while he was parking, on his way home. The father works as a maintenance man at Shaarei Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. When the border policeman pass through the valley with their jeeps, the children throw stones at them. Afterward the Border Police run after them into the alleys, and throw their stun and gas grenades at them. "Means for dispersing demonstrations" that nobody dreamed of using in Amona, which is now demanding a commission of inquiry. Last Friday, shortly after 11 A.M., Ibrahim Zalbani, the boy's father, was returning home from his work at Shaarei Zedek and was about to park his car. He already smelled the gas at the entrance to the alleys. When he parked, he heard a boom, and immediately afterward the screams of a woman. Then he saw his neighbor in his mirror, fearfully carrying a bleeding child in his arms. By the time he had emerged from his car, they had already told him that it was his Abud. "I was in shock. Anyone who saw him was sure he was finished. His head was crushed. I didn?t know what to do." At the nearby HMO branch, they tried to call an ambulance, but an Israeli ambulance won't enter the camp without an escort. Ismail and his horrified brothers rushed to take Abud to Hadassah University Hospital at Mt. Scopus, in their car. They were not sure that he would make it to the hospital alive. At Mt. Scopus they called an ambulance to rush Abud to Hadassah Ein Karem, where they quickly brought the child into the operating room. They told the father that Abud's life was in danger. The camp residents have been very upset since the construction of the wall began. There isn't a day without stones, and not a day without gas. Aside from Shabbat. This Sunday, too, the camp was silent, and the border policemen disappeared, apparently because of the incidents on Friday. "They overdo it too much here," says the shutter man, Wahal Mohammed Ali, whose house in the camp was demolished a few years ago, along with another two dozen homes. "Why? Because I approached Pisgat Ze'ev. It wasn't Pisgat Ze'ev that approached me. I've been here since 1967, and they came in 1995." "You're a settler," says Amla to him defiantly. "No, I'm a terrorist," replies the shutter man, from his red van. "They don't want us here. We disturb the view of Pisgat Ze'ev. They look from the balconies and see a refugee camp. That disturbs their view." Everyone here speaks good Hebrew, and most of them work in Jerusalem. Amla: "I want the world to know that if the situation continues this way, there will be a Vietnam here. If necessary we will open Vietnamese-type traps. We'll do whatever we have to here, because we have nothing to lose. There is nothing more precious to us than our children and our elderly parents." Shai of the PID is on the phone. He wants Amla to come to give testimony. Amla: "Send the investigators here, to see the scene of the incident. This incident did not come from nowhere. It came after an accumulation of many incidents. I'm not talking to you about politics. I'm talking to you about the behavior of your soldiers. I'll give testimony here. Do you want me to tell you what happened, or do you want me to tell you what you want to hear?" "I'll call in another 10 minutes, and you decide if you want to come to give testimony," says Shai, hanging up forever, apparently. The PID is investigating. Amla was married to a Jewish woman, a new immigrant from Argentina, who has been in Eilat since their divorce. Their four children are with him in the camp. They called one of their daughters Millennia, because she was born on the day when the millennium was supposed to begin according to the count of Nostradamus, as Amla explains to us. They called their other daughter Miari, after the hero of the book by Guatemalan author Miguel Angel Asturias, as Amla also explains. He is an electrician who worked for six years for fat Itzik at Cafe Olga in North Tel Aviv, from where he remembers Judy Nir-Mozes Shalom, and afterward he worked as an installer of satellite dishes and converters for the YES satellite company. When he speaks about the poverty of his camp, he quotes from the film "The Silence of the Lambs," which said that people have a desire, as he puts it, for what they see around them. "Do you know what it is to come back from an installation at Kibbutz Harel to this camp?" His sister lives in Calabria, Catalonia, north of Barcelona, where she married a local resident who converted to Islam. "I'm a proud Palestinian, and I know that I'm your enemy. I know that this war will not end, and I know that your attitude toward my existence is like your attitude toward the existence of an insect, even though I have a blue ID card like yours. I heard that during the evacuation of Gaza they taught the soldiers how to show restraint and how to behave nicely. Here they train them in mercenary camps. They don't care who gets hurt. You're building a wall. I don't think that it justifies such a large amount of gas. For every child who throws a stone, you punish 100 families. How far can a child get with a stone? If a child in Pisgat Ze'ev were to throw a stone, would you also use gas against Pisgat Ze'ev? "I once had an argument with a border policeman. He told me: Keep an eye on the children so they don't throw stones. I told him: I'm not your bodyguard. I didn't invite you here, and I'm not responsible for your safety here. You, on the other hand, are my guest, and I'll kill in order to protect you, but the soldiers are not my guests. We try to prevent the children from throwing stones, but when I saw that even after I disperse the children, sometimes by force, and I ask the Border Police to stop throwing grenades and they continue, I stopped trying to disperse them. The Border Police toss grenades in every situation. They're suffocating us. "I've been here since I was born. All my life we used to go to the forest opposite. That's the only place where the children can go. Pisgat Ze'ev is there, and now they're building the wall, too. Where will we go? Where will the children go? There isn't a single playground here in the entire camp. Let them take the blue ID cards. We have no problem with that. If a soldier wants to abuse me, he can do so even with a blue ID card." Amla says that some of the children of the camp walk around with birth certificates in their pockets. There is probably no other place in the universe where children walk around with their birth certificates. The soldiers ask for their ID cards, and if they don't have them, they sometimes have to show their birth certificates. There is a roadblock at the camp, and going out in the morning to the schools outside the camp, where almost all the residents have Israeli ID cards, is sometimes difficult. Ibrahim Zalbani sits downcast at the entrance of the children's Intensive Care unit at Hadassah Ein Karem. Occasionally he goes in to his son, covers his pale body, and leaves looking even sadder. He is 32 years old, with five children, and Abud is the "sandwich," as he puts it. He praises the care given to Abud in Hadassah, and the attitude toward him, and complains about the rudeness of one of the emergency room nurses at Hadassah Mt. Scopus. Abud's grandparents sit with him, his mother goes back and forth between the children who remain at home in the refugee camp, and the hospital. The attending doctor, Dr. Jack Brown: "The child arrived with a serious head injury, which we diagnosed according to external signs and a CAT scan. He underwent a head operation, and since then he has been anesthetized and on a respirator. He is still anesthetized and on a respirator, and there are signs of a gradual improvement. We are two days after the injury, and we have to wait a few more days in order to know his condition. He has a brain injury. We can assume that he will be handicapped, but it is still hard to know to what extent. In medical terms, the situation is serious and stable."

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Here you can read a Israeli voice about it, published in today's(2.12) edition of Ynet/Yediot Ahronot. I. Linor, the writer is a Israeli leftist..

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3212503,00.html

(There are many talkbacks - just read them!)

Anti-Semitism now

Two years ago the Israel Film Foundation refused funding for Paradise Now. Here's why
Irit Linor

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...INSANITY!!

Today in Jerusalem, about 2,000 women, young boys and older men chanted "Bin Laden, strike again!" as they marched around the Dome of the Rock on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, trampling a homemade Danish flags. (Reuters, 2.11)

Wow, what a surprise!!

...and don't say that 2,000(Palestinian, or better muslim) women.. don't know what they're doing/chanting! They know it very well!!

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20 persons reported killed in Nawalparasi clash (news update)

Map of Nawalparasi (File photo)

Latest reports from Nawalparasi say at least 20 persons, including 15 security personnel and four Maoist rebels, were killed during fierce clashes at Rambhapur of Nawalparasi district along the Mahendra highway on Thursday.

Reports quoted Siddhi Charan Bhattarai, president of NGO Federation of Nepal Nawalparasi district unit, who led a group of rights activists that inspected the site of clashes as saying that at least 18 security personnel were killed and one dozen others were injured during the clashes that ensued after heavily armed rebels attacked security personnel who were trying to clear the highway blocked by the rebels.

At least four rebels were killed during clashes.

Asmita Chapagain, a 21-year-old young woman from nearby district of Rupanedhi, when she fell victim to landmine explosion laid down by the rebels. Three other civilians were also injured in the explosion.

The rebels have said they have taken one dozen security personnel into custody after the clashes. They said they have set on fire vehicles used by the security personnel and seized weapons from them.

Traffic is yet to resume along the highway and local people are terrified, according to reports. Local people said the bodies of security personnel were lying scattered near the site of clashes till this afternoon. They said security personnel were yet to secure the area.

Reports said the RNA has launched an aerial raid in the bordering area of Palpa suspecting that the rebels are using the nearby forest as hideouts.

Meanwhile, Ministry of Defense said Friday evening that three rebels and two security personnel were killed in the encounter. It did not provide details.

Traffic is yet to regime along a number of highways in the eastern and western Nepal even after the withdrawal of ‘Nepal bandh’ (the nationwide shutdown strike) by the Maoists effective from Thursday.

They had called a week-long strike beginning last Sunday to disrupt the municipal polls. nepalnews.com by/ia Feb 10 06

Rights situation in Nepal one of the worst in the world: Amnesty

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A few weeks ago a anti-NK magazine wrote about a "netizen NK parody" web site.

http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk02300&num=535

What they were showing was/is in fact just simple and dull bull shit(harrhar... We ecpected more?? Not really!!).

Actually the best parodies, or better caricatures, are coming definetely from the DPRK itself... 

"All the peoples of the world praising Kim Il Sung's Juch’e"

NO COMMENT!!!

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Wow, just some days ago I got following letter/eMail from Finland:

"*Hi Comrade!

You may not believe this, but Migrant Workers Are Not Terrorists got a
prize at Bangladesh!!!

International Film Critics Association of Bangladesh Jury Award in Short
and Independent series.

Simo was there and he received a nice statue and diploma.
It's a pity that the festival does not have any kind of website.

Not too much info available, only small articles, like
http://www.weeklyholiday.net/2005/021205/cul.html

http://www.bangladeshobserveronline.com/new/2006/01/17/national.htm

Congratulations for all of us!"

http://www.piff.org/eng/html/program/prog_view.asp?sp_idx=&idx=10184&c_idx=16

(at PIFF2005)^^^

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Another "wow":

Just y'day one of our old articles in the former ETU-MB web site got 1111 readers/hits...

capitalism means daily terror! (updated version)

(oops, how it comes?? actually I don't know the reason..)!

Anyway... 축하!^^

But perhaps the readers are just police and NIS... and they just want to solve some of their own(f.. s..) problems..^^

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Today the third time since 2002 I get visitors from S. Korea who will participate in the Berlinale(Berlin Film Festival). I think this will be again 10 hard days for me... (party, maekju, soju, 'old' memories... - uhuu...)

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While the CPN(M) is reacting positively to the requests of the seven main opposition parties to stop/call back the General Strike(bandh) the ruling regime is continuing with its policy of massive oppression/terror.

2.8, "Election Day"...

According to GEFONT and some bourgeois media just few people particiapated in the so-called municipal election, organized by the king and his collaborators.

Please read more here:

Maoists call back general strike (7:30 PM)

Maoists withdrew the seven day long bandh (general strike) with effect from Thursday, after four days of the bandh.

A press statement issued by the Maoists on Wednesday said they withdrew the bandh respecting the requests of seven political parties, different organizations and people of different walks of life.

Maoists announced week long bandh from Sunday to disrupt the municipal poll.

Maoists have described the municipal poll as total failure.

Maoists also expressed gratitude to all people who had contributed for the success of the bandh.

Maoists appealed the seven political parties, civil societies and intellectuals to initiate dialogue for finding out the outlet of the present crisis through the election of the constituent assembly.

The statement further said that they will announce future programmes along with the process of dialogue.

The bandh has been facing widespread criticism from all walks of life. nepalnews.com pb Feb 08 06

...RNA 'in action'

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Very few voters turn up to cast their ballot
February 8th, 2006
Today the Royal Regime staged a drama of election ploy across the country for municipal elections. One of the Nepali Blogers Dinesh Wagle has written in blog- United We Blog! For Democratic Nepal entitled – "Deserted Voting Booths of Nepal" very interestingly on today's election drama.

"An elderly man looks for his name in a voters’ list pasted outside a voting center in Kathmandu. Royal Nepal government is organizing ultra-controversial municipal election today."

"I went around a few voting booths to see how the election process was going on. I saw no people but security personnel on all booths. They were staying idle with nothing to do. A voting center in New Baneshwor was exception. There were some people! And they were looking for their names on the voters’ list pasted on the wall outside the Cooperative Center."

"Deserted Road in downtown Kathmandu. Today is a double Nepal Banda in this troubled country. The week-long general strike called by Maoist rebels to foil the election is on its fourth day where as the government has banned driving in the city for today’s election purpose."

"Police and Army were imposing a strict NO ENTRY policy for the press."

http://www.gefont.org/summary.asp?flag=3&cid=50

Nepalnews

Over 130 activists arrested in Biratnagar, UML activist reported killed in Dang

Very few voters turn up to cast their ballot

Human rights activist arrested in Janakpur

Municipal polls: one suspected Maoist killed in Dhangadhi; over dozen arrested in Kathmandu

One armyman killed;10 civilians abducted in Dhankuta clash

eKantipur

Army opens fire at protestors in Dang, one killed, another injured

Over 150 arrested on the eve of polls

...and so on, and so on...

IHT/AP/Reuters

Violence and boycotts hinder election in Nepal

Al-Jazeera

Clashes overshadow Nepal vote

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"Our Maximum Goal... Communism!"

A - in my opinion - very significant interview with Prachanda, the chairperson of the CPN(M), made by The Kathmandu Post and published yesterday(2.7) on the Nepalese eKantipur:

• The Kathmandu Post: What is your bottom line for restoring peace in the country?

Prachanda: The understanding we have reached with the seven political parties is the bottom line at the moment. The 12-point understanding is the minimum base that democratic powers all over the world can accept and the country's crises can have an exit. After reaching the understanding, we extended the cease-fire by a month. Taking the people's verdict is the best democratic process. Once all are committed to move forward with the outcomes of the people's verdict, a political solution won't be distant. The events and history are testimony to the fact that the king and the palace don't want this.

• Post: What about your goals?

Prachanda: Since we belong to a communist party, our maximum goals are socialism and communism. Those are the maximum goals of all those accepting Marxism, Leninism and Maoism as philosophical and ideological assumptions. Given the international power balance and the overall economic, political and social realities of the country, we can't attain those goals at the moment. We must accept this ground reality. We have mentioned democratic republic and constituent assembly, with the understanding that we should be flexible given the balance in the class struggle and international situation. This is a policy, not tactics. This is a necessary process for the bourgeoisie and the national capitalists alike, let alone the middle-class.

• Post: Constituent assembly?

Prachanda: Yes. Constituent assembly is not a demand of the communists. It's a democratic process established by the capitalists a long time back.

We are not saying this as a tactic. We have adopted this policy due to today's balance in class powers and today's world situation so that the Nepali people won't have to endure any more troubles. On the one hand, those elites in the feudal palace, despite knowing it, call our policy just a tactic.

On the other, the Maoist movement has become the main fear of foreign powers - especially American imperialism. [They] have termed us a "momentary challenge". They have been looking at us strategically, saying that a "Maoist movement is flaring up in a land between giant countries

China and India, it can strike the whole world tomorrow." They are cautiously trying to give out a wrong message in this regard.

• Post: What is the process?

Prachanda: We are even ready to accept restoration of the dissolved House of Representatives if the seven parties say so. The only condition is: don't try to restore the authoritarian power. There are also shadows in the Supreme Court, so don't turn to that either. Restore the House by coming to the people, and we are ready to change the People's Army in a jiffy.

• Post: Changing the army?

Prachanda: We have told the seven parties, let's form a common army by including your people. One of the bases of confusion about us is that we have an army, we have guns. There are confusions about to what extent we are committed to democracy. Let's sit together with all including the seven parties; let's decide together who should be commanders, commissars, chief of the army; let's make a common army. Let's make a national army. We have made this proposal to both Girija and Madhav, saying that this will make clear our understanding on democracy and constituent assembly. Maybe, on the one hand, we haven't been able to clarify the depth and meaning of the issue; and on the other hand, the imperialists and palace elements have spread propaganda against us, thereby creating confusions.

• Post: Isn't this proposal of making a common army a ploy to push the parties into the "People's War"?

Prachanda: [laughing…]. The parties always continued to be hopeful of the palace right since 2007 B.S. [1951], they kept on making compromises with the palace. They should have more trust in the people, more trust in the people's power, should have led a people's decisive movement against feudal elements. We say, let's make a common army for constituent assembly and a democratic republic. Let's form a parallel government of the parties and the Maoists. You restore the House, we will support you; invite us for dialogue, we will come; let's make the army common by including all; that will make for an official and legitimate government. That will represent the majority people - the government of the [seven] parties and a party that rebelled. After forming such a government, we can approach the United Nations and the international community, saying  'this is the legitimate government of Nepal'. Since we have this kind of a proposal, how can it be about bringing the parties into the "People's War"? Rather, it's about us going for the parties' politics. It's about us going for a constituent assembly and a democratic republic. [It's about] us going for bourgeois democracy.

• Post: How will you manage your arms?

Prachanda: If all are ready to go for a constituent assembly, an interim government will be formed; the country will head towards elections for the constituent assembly; a ceasefire is undoubtedly attached to this; and it will create a climate for political debate. With the process of holding election by the interim government under way, there will be interaction with the parties and all the political forces in the country including the monarchists. As the election looms, let's maintain reliable international vigil on the Royal Army and the People's Liberation Army. The country will get a direction after the results of the election are out. Once it is clear, let's change the army and the weapons into a national army and national weapons respectively. The weapons of both sides should be put together and both the armies should be transformed into one under the supervision of the United Nations or another reliable agency. That will result in the national army.

• Post: Is it your proposal to keep both the armies under  international supervision until the election to the constituent assembly and formation later of a common army?

Prachanda: The army will be formed according to the results of the election. This is what you should be clear about. We will accept it  if the constituent assembly says we want monarchy. We are flexible even that far. We will accept it even if the people say we want an active monarch. If the people say 'republic', all should accept that. If the people go for, as has been said, a constitutional monarchy and multiparty democracy, we are ready for that. We value people's votes, nobody else's. The army will be reformed as per the people's decision.

• Post: So, you want to keep the conflict on to force the king to compromise?

Prachanda: Flexible words are not enough to pressure the king. If it is thought that the king would agree to revive the House, it is a thought of seeking the king's mercy. What we want to tell the parties is let's directly go for republic. A section of middle-class intellectuals still wants the king to remain in a ceremonial capacity. Even if you want the king to remain in such a  capacity, only the call for a republic will create enough pressure for that. The king must come to that point.

• Post: Have you received any conditional proposal for a constituent assembly from the government?

Prachanda: Since February 1(2005) last, we have had no contact whatsoever with the palace or the palace people, hence we haven't received any proposal. We have gotten an indication, through the UN people or other international agencies, that they [government] are trying to propose in a roundabout way a conditional constituent assembly. We reject it outright because "conditional" means "compromise", which is not a constituent assembly. A constituent assembly is without any conditions. Before February 1, we had said we would talk to the king, not the parties. We had said we wanted to talk [with him] for progress. After he started to go towards regression with all the powers, there was no room for holding talks with him.

• Post: Isn't it self-contradictory to say 'we will talk only with the real power, not with the parties and their government', and later to say 'we won't talk with the king after he announced taking over power'?

Prachanda: The power of the old regime rested in the king because the main organ of the regime, the army, was under him. He termed us "deviated" and "terrorists" when he staged the February 1 coup. It was proven that he didn't want to solve the problems even after taking absolute powers, by telling the parties off. The doors for talks were closed.

Bhattarai: He should have said 'okay I have come, let's solve the problems together'! He started saying 'I won't give you the rights you enjoyed till yesterday'.

Prachanda: That's the logic. The situation would have altered had he said 'Nobody did really work out, now the Maoists also come for dialogue, I want to give a try for a way out'.

• Post: But, don't you think you have been aiding the king's "war against terror" in the name of "entering the city"?

Prachanda: America has been saying this. The biggest terrorist of the world today is America, and its ruling class. They gave birth to Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Iraq is in the making of another Vietnam, Afghanistan is on the way. They call us terrorist? They have been giving impetus to the purely traditional force of calling the people subjects. You must have met [US Ambassador] Moriarty several times. He exaggerates while talking about us. As if the Maoists will take over, as if they will surround Kathmandu when we are not in that position. What they have been saying in a roundabout way is that the army is nice, but the king didn't understand. Has America tried to make the people sovereign anywhere? Why is America afraid of us? Because it is in an ideological crisis.

• Post: Isn't there an ideological crisis within your party?

Prachanda: We are investigating what mistakes our classes have made in the 20th century. We reviewed three years ago that the mechanism of running the state was not that democratic, was more mechanical, the people started to become monotonous in the 20th century communist movement, especially after the demise of Lenin. We passed a decision that we will go for a new people's democracy consistent with the 21st century. We aren't just saying democratic republic. The think tanks of American imperialism have well understood, though Nepal is a small country they have been forced to say, that this is the most successful revolution of the 21st century. If it's successful in Nepal, it has and will have direct impact on the one billion people of India, and it will also spill over into China. When it affects two or two and a half billion people, it means it will have impact all over the world. American intellectuals have understood this. That's why, they are of the opinion that the Maoists shouldn't prevail, rather it's alright to have an autocratic regime. Don't we know who made Marcos? Who brought Pinochet forward in Chile?

• Post: Do you mean to say America is the real support behind the king?

Prachanda: We think so. Facts substantiate that. Even the parties are in confusion about whether we will prevail. Sometimes, we feel sad. We have told the parties, you take the leadership role, we don't need it. The only thing is that the country should find a way out. We have said that the party leaders can lead the democracy. We are not in a hurry to lead the nation.

• Post: You want international mediation. Don't you think Nepal can solve the problems itself?

Prachanda: On the one hand, the political forces within the country are not able to convince one another. Secondly, it is the geopolitics  between two giant countries - China and India. International mediation is essential due to these reasons. We think that the UN is the best option, but we don't stick to that alone. The UN or any other reliable organization will work. It should be agreeable to China, India and the United States. We want no bloodshed. We want the bloodshed to stop and go for a solution, but if we don't take action, he won't give us the rights. Obviously the three-month cease-fire was for finding an exit. The king has said that the "momentary cease-fire" was a ploy to intensify violence. We didn't have that intention. The cease-fire was a pressure for a peaceful way out, not a tactic. Later, we added one more month so as to further pressurize the king for a peaceful way out. He thought - their backbone has been broken, they have announced cease-fire for power accumulation!

• Post: Will you go for talks if the government declares a unilateral cease-fire now?

Prachanda: We can't go for talks only with a ceasefire. We should look into the intention behind the truce. If the ceasefire comes as a card with the intention of defusing the movement, we won't accept it.

• Post: Then, what should happen?

Prachanda: We are open to holding unconditional discussions on all issues including constituent assembly. We will reciprocate positively if the ceasefire seems to be leading to meaningful dialogue. But, we don't see that possibility.

• Post: When will this series of violence end?

Prachanda: I can't answer this question like an astrologer. If things go as we have said, it should end in two to three months. We want to see things crystal clear by April 6. We have been trying to see the civil war has an outlet.

• Post: Your armed insurgency is close to reaching 10 years. Have you spotted your mistakes in this period?

Prachanda: The base of feudalism has been uprooted in the villages. The people are in the forefront of the world population when it comes to political consciousness. When we started the movement, there were not more than 70 full-time members in the party. Our movement grew in multiples wherever there was suppression. Within five years, it became a big power at the national level. So many people came to join us that it became like a people's movement. 

• Post: Lack of discipline was also a big issue?

Prachanda: Yes, that's absolutely true. People of all kinds came to join us. A little bit of freedom, anarchy and conservativeness started to become visible. Militarily, after we successfully carried out big operations in Dang, Gam, Achham, Arghakhanchi, Jumla, Satbariya, we had thought the army would lose faster than the police, maybe within a year or two. There was increase in multiples in the military prowess in preparation for capturing Kathmandu. Before that, the rulers of America and India got too serious. Weapons came from America, training from America, American fortification came and American money came. All the things came from America and India. They got strong fortifications. On the one hand, the war got prolonged. There was too much propaganda against us, which we couldn't stop. On the other, we couldn't provide ideological and political training to the new recruits. They came as they were. When we were getting over all these shortcomings, you saw internal rift within us.

• Post: Internal rift within your party surfaced around the time February One happened?

Prachanda: Yes, along with February One, which was the irony.

• Post: Have you seen any policy shift by India towards the Maoists?

Prachanda: We have thought there are certain changes post-February 1. But, India and America don't want to finish the monarchy off. They want the monarchy to come to a compromise. Maybe they are bargaining."

http://www.kantipuronline.com/interview.php?nid=64876

No comment from me! Please find out your own opinion about it! 

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Turkish Military against the Kurdish uprising..

Please check out this:

http://www.genel-kurmay.com/TurkishArmy/index.html

http://kurdistan.org/Multimedia/crimes.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/904758.stm (for example...)

THE TURKISH MILITARY - ALWAYS A GOOD PARTNER FOR THE S. KOREAN ARMY!!!

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...in EXILE!!

Definitely a half year to long!!

But perhaps today is/was a 'lucky' day for me... or not...

Actually I'm not sure if I did today a(THE) big mistake or not, but at least in exactly one month I(you???) will find it out..^^