06-29-2005, 05:19 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Signs of disintegration of Nepalâs Royal Army
27 June 2005. A World To Win News Service. Two notable events in Nepal over the
last week seem to point to increasing desperation on the part of the Royal Army
of Nepal. One is the kidnapping and killing of six family members of lower-level
RNA personnel, very likely by the RNA itself. The other is an RNA tender for
weapons and supplies, as they complain that they are running out of bullets and
guns. Further, the parliamentary parties announced they would boycott the local
elections the monarchy hopes to organise.
Nepalâs king has put all of the news media under the control of his armed
forces, forbidding the popular local FM stations from broadcasting any news at
all and sending censors to camp out in other media and print press editorial
offices. In early June, the Nepali media reported that the Maoists had abducted
six members of RNA menâs families from their rented house about five hundred
metres from a Royal Army training camp in Badimalika, in the Kailali district of
western Nepal. The next day the media reported that the kidnapped people had
been found killed in cold blood. They said that all the women had been raped and
all of them plus a child were cut to pieces with a knife. The
military-controlled media claimed that the Maoists had committed this crime as
if that were a proven fact, even though there had been no investigation. Many
people were stunned by this claim, especially in light of the recent incident in
Chitawan district where Maoist guerrillas had blown up a bus full of
civilians. Ultimately the media had to admit that the Maoists had nothing to do
with the vicious killings of the RNA soldiersâ families, but the RNA has yet to
say who the real murderers are.
Immediately after the bus tragedy in the Chitawan district, Chairman Prachanda
of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) issued an apology and a serious
self-criticism on behalf of the party, affirming that it was a violation of the
partyâs policy of not harming civilians and suspending the Peopleâs Liberation
Army and political leadership involved.
The commander of the western division of the PLA, Comrade Pravakar, issued a
statement on the murder of the family members. He said, âFirst of all we would
like to make it clear that the CPN(M) and the PLA had no role in that incident.
That incident is merely an extreme example of [the Royal Armyâs] own
international contradictions. We would never even think of such inhuman crimes,
let alone actually commit them. Since we release the soldiers captured in the
battlefield, we could not even think of killing their family members for no
reason.
âConcerning the crime itself, the following reasons could be behind it. First,
they may have been seeking to confuse the international communities and
international public by committing such a crime and attributing it to the
Maoists in a situation where they have been suffering all-around defeats in the
battle with the PLA. Second, they may have been deliberately committing such
crimes as a trick to control dissent in the lower ranks of the Royal Army
soldiers. Third, while committing this crime, they may have feared that the
facts would come out, and it may be that the reason they attributed the incident
to the Maoists was to keep it from backfiring against the RNA.â
In another development, the Royal army has opened a tender for global suppliers
of weapons to kill the Nepalese people. Many Nepali newspapers reported that the
regime of the feudal despot Gyanendra Shah is looking for foreign arms
suppliers. After the kingâs February coup against parliament, major suppliers of
arms to Nepal, including India, the US and the UK, announced they were
suspending shipments. Now the royal regime is nearly running out of guns and
bullets. The RNA said it was looking for various kinds of ammunition, weapons,
explosives, tanks, aircraft, regular helicopters and gunships, armoured
personnel carriers, security communication equipment, mine detectors, bullet
proof vests, parachutes, flack jackets and other equipment and spare parts, the
press said. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has proposed a budget double the size
of that of the current fiscal year, buttressing the RNAâs call for more
equipment, other press sources reported.
The royal regime has announced that municipal elections are to be held across
the country. The municipal governments became paralysed about three years ago
amid mass resignations of officials, and the establishment of revolutionary
political power in most of the countryside has made new elections impossible
since then. The alliance of the seven parliamentary political parties declared
they would boycott these elections, thus declining the kingâs appeal that they
join him in fighting to save the monarchy.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
27 June 2005. A World To Win News Service. Two notable events in Nepal over the
last week seem to point to increasing desperation on the part of the Royal Army
of Nepal. One is the kidnapping and killing of six family members of lower-level
RNA personnel, very likely by the RNA itself. The other is an RNA tender for
weapons and supplies, as they complain that they are running out of bullets and
guns. Further, the parliamentary parties announced they would boycott the local
elections the monarchy hopes to organise.
Nepalâs king has put all of the news media under the control of his armed
forces, forbidding the popular local FM stations from broadcasting any news at
all and sending censors to camp out in other media and print press editorial
offices. In early June, the Nepali media reported that the Maoists had abducted
six members of RNA menâs families from their rented house about five hundred
metres from a Royal Army training camp in Badimalika, in the Kailali district of
western Nepal. The next day the media reported that the kidnapped people had
been found killed in cold blood. They said that all the women had been raped and
all of them plus a child were cut to pieces with a knife. The
military-controlled media claimed that the Maoists had committed this crime as
if that were a proven fact, even though there had been no investigation. Many
people were stunned by this claim, especially in light of the recent incident in
Chitawan district where Maoist guerrillas had blown up a bus full of
civilians. Ultimately the media had to admit that the Maoists had nothing to do
with the vicious killings of the RNA soldiersâ families, but the RNA has yet to
say who the real murderers are.
Immediately after the bus tragedy in the Chitawan district, Chairman Prachanda
of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) issued an apology and a serious
self-criticism on behalf of the party, affirming that it was a violation of the
partyâs policy of not harming civilians and suspending the Peopleâs Liberation
Army and political leadership involved.
The commander of the western division of the PLA, Comrade Pravakar, issued a
statement on the murder of the family members. He said, âFirst of all we would
like to make it clear that the CPN(M) and the PLA had no role in that incident.
That incident is merely an extreme example of [the Royal Armyâs] own
international contradictions. We would never even think of such inhuman crimes,
let alone actually commit them. Since we release the soldiers captured in the
battlefield, we could not even think of killing their family members for no
reason.
âConcerning the crime itself, the following reasons could be behind it. First,
they may have been seeking to confuse the international communities and
international public by committing such a crime and attributing it to the
Maoists in a situation where they have been suffering all-around defeats in the
battle with the PLA. Second, they may have been deliberately committing such
crimes as a trick to control dissent in the lower ranks of the Royal Army
soldiers. Third, while committing this crime, they may have feared that the
facts would come out, and it may be that the reason they attributed the incident
to the Maoists was to keep it from backfiring against the RNA.â
In another development, the Royal army has opened a tender for global suppliers
of weapons to kill the Nepalese people. Many Nepali newspapers reported that the
regime of the feudal despot Gyanendra Shah is looking for foreign arms
suppliers. After the kingâs February coup against parliament, major suppliers of
arms to Nepal, including India, the US and the UK, announced they were
suspending shipments. Now the royal regime is nearly running out of guns and
bullets. The RNA said it was looking for various kinds of ammunition, weapons,
explosives, tanks, aircraft, regular helicopters and gunships, armoured
personnel carriers, security communication equipment, mine detectors, bullet
proof vests, parachutes, flack jackets and other equipment and spare parts, the
press said. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has proposed a budget double the size
of that of the current fiscal year, buttressing the RNAâs call for more
equipment, other press sources reported.
The royal regime has announced that municipal elections are to be held across
the country. The municipal governments became paralysed about three years ago
amid mass resignations of officials, and the establishment of revolutionary
political power in most of the countryside has made new elections impossible
since then. The alliance of the seven parliamentary political parties declared
they would boycott these elections, thus declining the kingâs appeal that they
join him in fighting to save the monarchy.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->