The value of human life has evolved with time. In prehistoric times, the value of human life was worth nothing like that of an animal that gets preyed upon in the jungle.

As we have evolved, we have put a large value on human life since life is a basic fundamental right that a human being has. In civilized world, we all know how much a value of one life is. Anyone who kills another is a criminal and will be prosecuted in the strickest of form since taking a human life is the worst crime ever.

Today the educated world knows that the value of life is priceless.

If we consider the Maslows pyramid as a heirerarchy of needs, then the right to live is a more basic need than anything else, without which nothing even matters.

So the problem with the Maoist insurgency is that they gambled with the lives of 15,000 (plus more which are not in statistics), hoping (promising) to provide a better fulfilment of needs to the rest of the population.

The fact is that they gambled with 15,000 priceless lives, promising a better future for everyone else. And after the success of their campaign, now everything is actually even worse than before.

The point is they had no right to gamble the priceless lives of people, and there is really no justification for that - specially now when the country is in much worse situation than before.

The maoists will always continue to pedal hope and people will continue to buy it till their very end. They will continue to confuse the common Nepali by using complicated Nepali words and rhetorics. They will keep coming up with excuses on why they cannot even fulfill their own demands now that they are in the government. They will keep asking for 5, 10, 50 years to make things right and people have no options but to hope for the best.

In my opinion there is no justification for the maoist insurgency.