Yakthung ji- In over 25 years of conflict, which lead to the elimination of the LTTE’s leadership, around 80,000 lives were lost. That’s 80,000 too many lives. The choice there was to take on the terrorists or submit to their dictates. We know what path was opted for and what the results are. With India no longer as accommodating as before, it would take lot less to eliminate the Maoist leadership, probably not exceeding 200 targets, with 300 to 400 in total – that is, if the likes of junior Dahal are thrown in for good measure. In fact, it will beless even compared to Chile in 1973. It might be apt for civil society wallahs like Deverndra Raj and Mathura Shrestha to use such emotive words as “genocide”, but the facts speak otherwise and anyone who has even basic knowledge of the holocaust would find that sort of comparison downright silly.

As I said previously, if you want to star as a Kul Bahadur or a Phudong or act as the human shield for these terrorists, that’s your choice. We respect that. You are more than welcome to play the part of the useful idiot for one and a collateral damage statistic for the other side. But I quite agree, that before we allow you launch yourself into martyrdom, we must give these Maoist terrorists enough rope to hang themselves with. For now, it’s the language of consensus, peace, brotherhood/sisterhood, but we all know that these Maoists chose terrorism as their strategy and when your strategy is wrong, no matter what tactical adjustments are made, it won’t make the slightest difference. At long last, it’s good to see that the conditions are coming just right for the rest of us to pay these Maoist terrorists back with interest and in some respects we need to thank lead terrorists like Baburam for this.