Posted by: hakim_saab June 1, 2012
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MardShab,
Nepal's constitution says that all Nepali citizens are equal regardless of ethnicity or gender. Thats an absolute statement, as long as you're a citizen certain inalienable rights will granted to you which will be the same as everyone elses.
If Nepals current constitution said that some people were inherently more priviledged that the others then this janajati arguement would have been palatable, but it does not. A Rai, Magar, Tamang, Newar, Madheshi, Muslim, Limbu are granted the same rights as a Bahun, Chettri or Thakuri.
Can someone point to me how dividing the nation into ethnic states would help anyone? Janatatis already have 50 percent reservation in the state apparatus. Even the indivual janajatis are segregated into their own caste system and if federalism was to be franchised along ethnic lines the only ones benefitting will be the ones at the heirarchy of every ethnicity.
Lets remember that poverty is the biggest form of opression, if the Maoists, instead of fanning the fire of ethnic divide were to concentrate on economic development, we'd have a united and egalitarian Nepal in a few years, but now it seems another big genocide is the writing on the wall.
Nepal's constitution says that all Nepali citizens are equal regardless of ethnicity or gender. Thats an absolute statement, as long as you're a citizen certain inalienable rights will granted to you which will be the same as everyone elses.
If Nepals current constitution said that some people were inherently more priviledged that the others then this janajati arguement would have been palatable, but it does not. A Rai, Magar, Tamang, Newar, Madheshi, Muslim, Limbu are granted the same rights as a Bahun, Chettri or Thakuri.
Can someone point to me how dividing the nation into ethnic states would help anyone? Janatatis already have 50 percent reservation in the state apparatus. Even the indivual janajatis are segregated into their own caste system and if federalism was to be franchised along ethnic lines the only ones benefitting will be the ones at the heirarchy of every ethnicity.
Lets remember that poverty is the biggest form of opression, if the Maoists, instead of fanning the fire of ethnic divide were to concentrate on economic development, we'd have a united and egalitarian Nepal in a few years, but now it seems another big genocide is the writing on the wall.