Paani, Regardless of what side one might take on critical issues that face our country, I think it would only do us both well if we refrain from lies, distortions, etc, to promote our respective ideas. A LIE FROM YOU: I have never asked ANYONE who opposes me to shut up. We are all free to indulge in discussions, and just becasue I may disagree with you and others who support the king does not imply that I have asked my opponents to shut up. Rather, for the sake of strenthening my arguments, by the token of KingG, whom you seem to have a lot of faith in, could you try not voicing your opinion because you differ with me? Try it. Just once. Let me know how it feels, and that might explain how many maybe feeling when they are subjected to jail, torture, or, in some extreme cases, "disappearances," when choosing to oppose the King. Now, you may say some political detainees are being released and that the press is freer than it was during the first week of past Febraury. Well, SOME good news cannot attest to the humanity on the part of the King in TOTALITY. For one thing, Nepali people are not some "ghar-paaluwa bheda-baakhras" of the King that they should be contented with gradual allowance of their basic, fundamental rights by their "master" (KingG). A DISTORTION BY YOU: I wrote: "This much, we did well -- you and others, including the government's official mouth pieces like the Gorkhapattra, were forced to pick up on the news of us making noise." I have refered only to GORKHAPATTRA as one of the "official mouth pieces" of the present government. Not you, or anyone else. Please refrain from distorting what your opponents may have written just for the sake of conveniently downplaying them. Finally, I am glad that you at least admit to the weakness of the RNA and it's present inability to reign in the Maoists. Without further military aid from abroad, ill knowledge of human rights, and worsening human situations on the grounds, which inevitably fuels the insurgency, I do not see any prospects of RNA becoming any better at tackling the Maoists.