Maoist takeover: Becoming a reality Till now, the tactics has worked with remarkable accuracy. City dwellers of Kathmandu, Pokhara, Biratnagar, Dhangadi, Birgunj and Chitwan are amazed to see new faces in their towns pelting stones, braving rubber bullets, burning tyres, placing bolders at street centers and shouting provocative slogans. These “new faces” have all arrived from the adjacent villages and most of them are well-trained Maoist guerrillas. There are at least 3 cases of firing from on behalf of the protestors towards the policemen. On April 16 th they stoned the Pulchowk branch of the Himalayan Bank Limited. Why do protestors demanding the restoration of democracy need to vandalize the post office premises, smash cars, try to enter the private residences of police officers, and smash the windows of a bank where thousands of depositors have kept their money and valuables? The statement signed by Prachanda and Dr. Baburam Bhattarai also proves that this agitation is essentially a Maoist program merely “supported by the agitating parties.” In a BBC radio interview, spokesman of the CPN (Maoist) also clarified that this movement is a Maoist program contrary to the parties’ claim that the Maoists had not infiltrated into the agitation. While the confusion goes on, the protests have been anything else but peaceful. Dozens of policemen have been hurt, five deaths, private households are terrified with the prospect of rioters entering home and vandalizing their private property, but the so-called democracy movement goes on simply to satisfy the Maoist yearning for total power. The parties have fallen into the Maoist trap as they have given not only their flags but also their slogan and in that rigmarole, the terrorist who was about to climb atop a telephone tower in Pokhara to set it ablaze has been named as a “martyr”. If people that destroy government buildings, telecom towers and vandalize private houses are termed as “martyrs,” why not call all the Maoist rebels who have been killed in the last 10 years of the insurgency also as “martyrs”? BY DR. PRAVIN RAJBAHAK People's News/Commentary i thinks this is so true................................