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Secular-Right India: Gyanendra, Almost Ready To Blink. And here's what is happening: First our Foreign Minister Natwar Singh met Gyanendra and now the PM has met him. PM meets Gyanendra.
Instead of the mindgames, India should have woken up to the Nepal threat early. We must crush the Maoists in Nepal, if Nepal can't. Because any trouble in the Himalayan Kingdom affects India and its interests. The Maoists have built a Red corridor from China to Tamil Nadu via Nepal, Bihar, Jharkhand and Andhra Pradesh. They kill at will in the areas they control.
They have been running a parallel administration in large parts of the country, while the city-dwelling politicians debate how to deal with them. With a clear lack of unity and resolve. Andhra declares a ceasefire, Maharashtra goes on the offensive, there's a war on in Jharkhand while Bihar had always had thousand wars on.
A bleeding Nepal is the last thing India can afford now.
India is accused to throw the big-brother weight around in the region even when Bangladesh Rifles jawans mutilate our soldiers. First the infmaous Pirduwa when 16 BSF jawans were doled out deaths that didn't have the dignity that a soldier deserves. And now BSF officer Jeewan Kumar snatched under the cover of a flag meeting.
India keeps silent to keep peace, but at what cost? Bangladesh is turning into Afghanistan. Even Pakistan woke up to the reality of Afghanistan. Will India wake up?
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BTW, our blog (that you cite in your post) is on the same page with you re. the maoist menace -- in fact, we've written on this a great deal. For example, see:
http://secular-right.blogspot.com/2005/03/why-cambodia-matters-to-nepal.html
We simply dispute the notion that a dictatorship is the means to resolving the challenge from maoist dogma. Only democracy has the moral basis for, and the ability to, build the needed political space where threats like the maoists can be dealt with harshly -- and their leaders, with extreme prejudice.
Best regards.
I agree, Primary Red, that a return to monarchy is not the answer. We need a democratic Nepal as much as we need a peaceful and prosperous Nepal. A poor and bleeding neighbour will bleed us further. But India has to have conviction when it reacts to events in the neighbourhood. We condemn the monarch and we shake hands too. That's what hurts us. We have not been firm in dealing with our neighbours. And the meek will not inherit the earth.
That's why the monarch didn't as much blinked when he sacked the government, he didn't bother about what we think. Bangladesh doesn't bother about what we think, Pakistan never did.
We are neighbours, we need respect each other's views. India in fact goes the extra mile in accomodating their need, but we never get that in return. They do what they want. And then accuse India of imposing her size/clout.
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