all right if we take the maoists to the internaitonal justice court then we ought to take the royal regime to court too....if we are really talking numbers here, the deaths inflicted by teh RNA has been twice as much as what has been done by maosists, although i do relize saying this is kind of stupid. lets not get into an argumetn of who is the worst criminal. i fully realize that moaists have committted horrendous crimes agaisnt humanity and i never said i support them. all i am seeking now is a solution to the present conflict....i dont' want any more people to die. that is all. i realize there have 13,000 deaths in the past decade, in the next decade, i don't want that toll to reach 26,000. i want this violence to stop noww and the only way to do that is not with an approach of tit for tat, but allow different politcal beliefs into the mainstream. you may bleive in democracy, but i may not (i do though), can you tell me i am wrong? can you accuse me of not bleiveing in democracy? not beleiivng in your idealogies? no you cannot, similary, you cannot blame the maoists for having a communist ideals, you cannot blame them for wanting to have a fairer distrubtion of wealth thefore, they should be allowed to come into the pciture and compete with other politcla agendas. if their party wins, they can rule for certain number of years before we hold electiosn again. an intellectual recently said in ktm, "the maoists need to be tested, if not trusted". i dont' trust the maostis, i dont' trust the parties. there is nothing and no one left to trust, but giving up altoghter is not the solution. all i am aspiring for is the best solution to the problem, now the best solution will not lead to utopia, but again, all i want is peace and stablity. as for your qeustion, basantapur, if i am the only one who goes to a jungle and kills people , i ought to be hanged. but there are thousands and thousands and thousands of maoists and maoists supports (I AM NOT ONE OF THEM) how can you ignore such a large part of the population? if you really bleive in democracy and democratic ideals, then you ought to let everyone, all kinds of political parties and agends, particiapte and express thier opinions and practise what they believe in. ram ji, the king? and democracy? not compatible!!