Hello Sajhalanders,
Since we know the proper arms-management and merger of two armies have been a hot issue for discussion at Nepali politics at the moment, I am looking forward to your opinions on the consequences of the merger two armies which have different footing.
Although armed revolt is not a very first experience in case of Nepal, the issue never took the hype which reached all the way upto the merger of armies.
While flipping towards world history, I came to figure out that we are in some what similar situation where China was 60 years ago.
After the death of Sun 1925, Chiang Kaishek came to the power and launched his famous "Northern Expedition" which unified Southern China and let him control of almost all the parts of China. Chiang Kaishek had never liked the Communists anyway, launched a massacre of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members. Among those who managed to escape the carnage was a young communist named Mao Zedong. While Chiang Kaishek was busy working on his mission of elimination of communist from China, hungry for raw materials and pressed by a growing population, Japan initiated the seizure ofChina in September 1931. This proved helpful for the Communists -- the troops sent by Chiang Kaishek to the North to contain and eventually eliminate the CCP much preferred to spend their time fighting the Japanese. In late 1936, Chiang's own generals kidnapped him and held him captive until he agreed to fight the Japanese before fighting the Communists because of the importance of "internal unity before external danger." Two armies merged and the Chinese resistance to Japanese stiffened then after. While the anti-japanese war was going on, the Communists expanded their influence wherever opportunities presented themselves through mass organizations, administrative reforms, and the land- and tax-reform measures favoring the peasants--while the Nationalists (lead by Chiang Kaisek) attempted to neutralize the spread of Communist influence.
At the end of World War II (after withdrawl of Japanese from China), the war between the Nationalists and the Communists started up again. By early 1949, the Nationalists were hamstrung by intractable corruption and huge debts; they paid off their debts by printing more money, which only lead to hyperinflation. By that October, the Nationalists had fled to Taiwan and Mao Zedong had proclaimed the creation of the People's Republic of China.
Will we be facing the same consequences that China faced 60 years ago? What's your say?
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