Chana-jyu,

I appreciate your view and suggestions. I will sleep on them. However, as I said earlier, what Bathroom’s victims feel about it carries more weight. I am all ears.

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Now onto other old and new threads of conversations on politics.

>१० को हत्यालाइ गंभिर रुपमा लिइ महा हत्यारा भनिए पनि १ को

>हत्यारालाइ "उदारवादि हत्यारा" त  भन्न मिल्दैन कि कसो ?

Mr. Truth-jyu,

We probably should put it this way. The SAMENESS of one crime and ten crimes is EMOTIONAL or SUBJECTIVE and the DIFFERENCE between them is OBJECTIVE.

Sometimes, the objective observation helps to see the reality better and ease our discomfort.

For example, we Nepalis have been ashamed of ourselves to acknowledge that we killed 14,000 people in an unnecessary (war always has an alternative) political war.

Compare that to what has been happening in Iraq. In just 3 years of invasion, up to 601,000 people (according to an estimate published in Lancet, a reputed medical journal, in 2006) might have been killed. Even just the body count of the non-combatant civilians killed reached 90,251 today.

This sure does not comfort me. I am ashamed of 14000 killings of Nepal anyway. But it gives me a perspective to understand the evil of war better and gives a hope that Nepalis will be able to heal the wound of war better and faster and move forward.

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>One can rightly put the blame on the King, the Army,

>the Maoist, the political parties/leaders for various

>crimes, human right abuses, etc.

Sedif-jyu,

On the top of my list of the party that failed our country is always us- people like you, I, or Bathroom, for that matter, the educated or enlightened or whatever mass, who never could intervene in what went for past 15 years except for April 2006. Even in 2006, a large fraction of our youth (of Nepali hip-hop generation, for example) failed to show up. And it was not just a simple matter of intervening. In fact, it was a matter of lack of ideas. If you go through all the academic and popular media publications between 1996 to 2003, you will find that not a single academicians, analysts, journalists have produced a single realistic and doable idea for ending the Maoist war, strengthening/establishing democracy and it’s attributes- accountability, transparency and good-governance. The last three are still missing from the political discourse going on.

So there was an amazing black-out of ideas for almost a decade of the difficult history of Nepal. Why was that, I still do not understand fully.

Anyway, fast forward to today. We have finally found what we were looking for without knowing what they could might be. We now know it was ‘democratic republic’ to put an end to extreme communist quests for good, “inclusion” to unite the people at last (Prithvi Narayan Shah had “united” the land, not the people !) and creative freedom to think about the rest. We are finally at the beginning of a new modern journey. On that note, I will end this rambling of mine.

Nepe