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http://newsblaze.com/story/20080411190641nnnn.nb/newsblaze/OPINIONS/Opinions.html
Op-Ed Contributor
Senator Biden: Drawing Your Attention To The Nepal Situation
Letter to the Editor
Urgent Letter sent to:
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Chairman, US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Re: Drawing your attention towards Nepal situation.
Honorable Senator,
We, Nepalese living in the United States feel the urgency to draw
your attention to the Constituent Assembly elections held in Nepal on
April 10, 2008. This Constituent Assembly election is considered to be
historic in the sense it is the first in Nepal. The tendency clearly
shows the Communist Party of Nepal- Maoist is coming victorious as
against the baseless assumptions and analyses of the international
community, the United Nations and the European Union. The United States
also has to share the blame.
The US Government stood behind the Indian Government vis-a-vis Nepal
and let the Indian Government which is a coalition of several parties
including a few communists parties, take charge of Nepal matters. The
Government of India by compulsion had to hand over its charge to the
Communists of India in relation to Nepal because of a fear of its early
collapse in case Communists withdrew from the government of India. Thus
the US Government's support to Indian Government in relation to Nepal
matters has been fully exploited by the Indian Communists. The result
was evident.
The Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists which killed about 15,000
people mercilessly surfaced in the open with the help of Indian
Communists, the coalition members in the Indian Government. The
Government of India brought Nepal's unpopular political parties and
Maoists of Nepal together, forced them to sign a deal against the Royal
regime of Nepal. Indian Government provided them logistics to fight the
Royal regime. Instead of coming to a major criticism from the
international community, His Majesty King of Nepal had to listen to
them and hand over power to the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) which was
later joined by the Maoists and became SPAM (seven party alliance and
the Maoists).
The international community, the EU, the UN and the US Government's
assumptions and analyses that the Maoists will lose the Constituent
Assembly election were completely wrong. As we have already put forth,
the Maoists are becoming victorious though with the use of
intimidation, extortion and with the communists' tactics of propaganda,
there is no way except to accept the so-called people's verdict.
Honorable Senator, the Communist Party of Nepal is still in the US
Government's terrorists list and it should continue to remain on that
list. However, no government in the world can stop it from handling
Nepal's affairs now. We human beings living in this very modern era
must feel shame that the killer terrorists Maoists are about to run the
beautiful country, Nepal.
Honorable Senator, the international community can minimize the
tragedy that will unfold in the very near future if Nepal's Monarchy is
saved and given continuation as the Constitutional Monarchy. Now, as
the leading nation of the world, the US must take swift action to
contain the rise of communists in Nepal thereby spreading rapidly
throughout the South Asian region and so on. As the Chairman of the US
Foreign Relations Committee, Honorable Senator, your role will be vital
in saving Nepal's Constitutional Monarchy and containing the virus of
the communist which does not believe in the basic human rights and
freedoms.
Honorable Senator, we Nepalese living in the United States and all
over the world request you to make the drastic move towards saving our
beautiful nation, Nepal, from falling into the hands of Khmer Rouge
type guerrilla communists of Nepal, namely, the Maoists. In order to
contain them, the Constitutional Monarchy of Nepal has to be continued,
first. Thank you.
With due honor,
Bishal Shah,
On behalf of different organizations,
Nepali Nationalists Organization (NNO) USA,
Sanatan Dharma Sanskrit and Nepali Center, New York
Motherland Nepal, CA,
N & J Entertainment Inc., USA,
Coalition for National Unity and Reconciliation, USA.