Something, "My best guess is India (atleast its leaders) has been supporting the insurgency and backstabbing the nepalese people all along." i don't think there is any denying in india's support to the maoists. if that wasn't backstabbing the nepali people than india sure knows and wants whats better for nepal than nepalis themselves. so we should thank india for their support in bringing this greatest revolution in the history of our nation? but then again, i'm trying to figure out what has this revolution brought at the expense of so many innocent lives? maoists so called revloution started 10 - 12 years ago, during the very early days of multi party democracy and constitutional monarchy (which is what the people wanted at the time) this aspired changed by the people wasn't even given a fair chance. now after thousands of lives and successful revolution, what will we have? we will still have multi party democracy minus the constitutional monarchy. now my question here is was the revolution for what it was, worth it so many lives and so much destruction of the nation just to minus the constitutional monarchy (most probably being replaced with ceremonial). i do not consider monarchy to be any active power player during then late king Birendra era nor for much of Gyanendra's early ear. if you all remember the dead lock situation of the country at the time when Gyanendra took absolute power (friction within political parties, between political parties, from UML to RPP to NC-D keep on forming incompetent collation governments one after another, and on top of all these soap opera the maoists insurgency). my point here is other than Gyanendra's move to take absolute power (although i would argue there wasn't much else option available at the time) there isn't any other other evidence that the instituation of monarchy was going get on the way of multi party democracy. so whatever the maoists are claiming they have accomplished with their revolution is simply not worth it! subsctracting constitutional monarchy from multi party democracy was not worth 14,000 + innocent lives, the social awareness and equality maoists claim they have brought was not worth 14,000 + innocent lives, and whatever else they are claiming they will bring in the near future (just from analyzing their actions as of late i can tell) it wouldn't have been worth so much death and destruction to our beautiful motherland. so, all these whatever maoists are claiming they have acheived and anything else they are claiming they will achieved, if given the needed time would have been very much achievable with multi party democracy brought by the popular movement of 1990....well except minus the 14,000 + innocent lives and destruction that has pushed us 50 years back.