OK writes: "However I do still believe that they are political force and their political ways (No! I am not taking about their actions!) are necessary to eradicate our feudal societies to establish democratic and socialistic ones." This is how Maoists get their sympathy when well-meaning Nepalis fall in to a trap to say to them, "I like your politics but without the violence." Obviously, those Nepalis who have not had their family members and/or friends killed or hurt by Maoists harbour such pie-in-the-sky sympathies as though Maoists' having a wonderful-sounding philosophy is good enough of a credential for them to be for democracy and against feudalism REGARDLESS of how their philosophy actually plays out in practice. [As I write these sentences, I just read that Maoists have bombed an SLC exam center. What revolutionary goal was achieved by bombing SLC exam centers and hurting/killing innocent students?] On a larger note, why can't people understand that there is NO such thing as non-violent Maoism just as there is no such thing as a vegetarian carnivore? Violence is THE essence of Maoism. Violence is what gives color to Maoist philosophy. No violence = No Maoism. It's just that Maoist leaders are very clear and very media-savvy at justifying violence in the name of larger, vague and true-sounding goals. Who, for instance, is for corruption, for discrimination and so on and so forth? Because Maoists cannot win the hearts and minds of people through logic, evidence, trials and errors, arguments and public debates, they have to resort to violence, to killings and fear-mongering to get what they want. So, I would think that the right thing to say the Maoists is this: "So long as you do not denounce violence and give it up altogether and even stop calling yourselves Maoists , you are NOT a political force of any sort. A political ideology with an obviously wrong practice cannot be a right ideology at all. You are just a destructive force. Don't fool yourself and don't fool us." And, NO, one does not have to be pro-parties or anti-parties or pro-king or anti-king or adopt any of those other labels to say that the Maoists are no political force when their politics justifies violence. oohi ashu