Posted by: live_wire May 8, 2009
Should Prachanda be Jailed?
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Are we serious or what?


When prosecutors could not nail the gangsters for criminal charges, the jury often indicted them with tax evasion charges, which were easier to prove in the court of law.


Before jailing, he should be tried at court. Proving war crimes may be tough, legally speaking. So, he should be tried for crimes that can be supported by evidence, such as lying to authority, for that is what he did when he and his goons inflated the number of PLAs from 7,000-8,000 to 30,000. The video tape is the proof of it. Surely, it must be a crime to lie to UNMIN and mislead the peace process that has had and will have historical repercussions for Nepal. But then anything goes in Nepal. So, one can never be sure. Ki kaso?

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