Nepe wrote: 1. Maoists will disarm, join the mainstream and accept the republic and run in the election (else, they will face the united force of the King's party and all other political parties and every single Nepali, from Mechi, Mahakali to the USA !) **** A quick comment: Yes, but the Maoists are on record for saying that they do NOT believe in electoral democracy. Period. They want their way to prevail -- pure and simple. Besides, they have said that they do not elections to happen anyway. At any rate, when the deaths of 11,000 Nepalis have NOT united "King's party and all other political parties and every single Nepali, from Mechi, Mahakali to the USA" to do much against the Maoists or for that matter to check vigorously against human rights abuses committed by the state, it's an equally pie-in-the-sky belief to think that somehow they will all magically be united AFTER Nepal becomes a republic! **** 2. King can show the whole world and unconvinced people like me how much people trust him and win the election and thereby show other corrupt parties and incompetent leaders how to run a democracy and do good governance, accountability, transparency, rule of law, equality before the law, reward and penalty, you name it. A quick comment: OK, if the leaders -- who have their own prickly, super-sensitive egos to massage -- are to be shown by the King how corrupt and khattam they were and are, and how a democracy should be run, then there's very little incentive for them to be united with the King against the Maoists. Nobody likes to work with people who make fun of them! ***** 3. Our corrupt parties will learn the lesson that we all want them to learn. No. Our political parties will ALWAYS be corrupt as long as there is no open intra-party competition, and as long as they cling on to outdated constitutions than give a whole lot of power to senior party officials and NOT to genuine electoral constituencies to decide who they want to elect. More later, oohi ashu