SAAG on Nepal revolution

["Magnus Bernhardsen" <magnus.bernhardsen@xxxxx>]

Two South Asian Analysis Group papers on Nepal, extracts below:

http://www.saag.org/papers3/paper279.html
THE MAOISTS OF NEPAL: Three perspectives
by B.Raman

"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

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The Maoists of Nepal see their armed struggle, based on
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, from three perspectives---the international, the
Nepalese and the Indian.

While analysing the international situation, they admit that the
proletarian movement all over the world has suffered a set-back, which,
however, they consider as temporary, and that China, the birth place of
Maoism, has been under the control of a counter-revolutionary group since
the death of Mao.  They attribute the set-back suffered by the
international proletarian movement to international revisionism, modern
revisionism, revisionism in China and Russian revisionism.

They are, at the same time, confident that the world would see in the
medium term a revival of revolutionary fervour.  According to them, the
Shining Path guerillas of Peru sowed the seeds of this revival and, though
they have suffered a set-back at the hands of the rightist opportunists,
the spark of the revolutionary fire has since spread to Nepal and India
from where it would set off a new prairie fire.


http://www.saag.org/papers3/paper279.html
16. 07. 2001
NEXT KARGIL? PRAIRIE FIRE IN NEPAL

 by B.Raman

Coinciding with the general strike called by them on July 12, the Maoists
of Nepal killed two policemen and abducted 70 others in an attack on a
police outpost at Holkari village in the Rolpa district, about 650 kms
north-west of Kathmandu.

The Maoists subsequently declared the abducted policemen as Prisoners of
War (PsOW) and offered to release them if the Government released the
Maoist detenus. They also demanded that all Maoist detenus should be
treated as PsOW by the Government.

In its first direct intervention in the counter-insurgency operations
against the Maoists, which were till now being handled exclusively by the
Police with the Army's help confined to defusing explosive devices, the
Royal Nepal Army (RNA) surrounded the Nuwa village of Rolpa district, where
the Maoists are understood to be detaining the abducted policemen.