Posted by: passinthru February 8, 2005
The real origin of Nepali Maoists?
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There's a new Batman movie coming up in the summer of 2006. And I read in the review that it is exploring the part not discussed much in any previous Batman movies "How batman became batman?" Weird start, u may say. Anyway, on the same vein, I was reading a BBC article and somewhere I read that Prachanda went underground in 1996 when the Communist Party (Maoist) could only secure 9 seats in the parliament. And from then they have just gotten bigger and stronger and now, arguably the biggest party in Nepal. Maybe we can only speculate on the question( of which I have not seen any discussion anywhere) that I am about to pose or perhaps there are concrete answers (hopefully). Why did Baburam Bhattarai suddenly go underground (even after securing at least 9 seats which doesn't seem too bad considering they were a new party then)? Is he just a mindless gun slinger who likes killing people without any intent on his mind? (This question has been troubling me these last couple of days and I just could not resist posting it here in sajha.)
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