Good questions...but I doubt Baburam will reply. On the other hand, you coulda posed some of these questions to our present-day inept government, who are monkeys, as well. "Monkeys come and go but the organ grinder stays the same" as some political analyst put it. Such is the face of the governance of Nepal. Answers to some of the posed questions (unless Baburam bothers to answer them- ha ha) could be extrapolated from the past experience of China - and by studying the Maoists' actions over the years. Books and articles on the Maoist Insurgency have come out and are still coming out. Of course, the Maoist problem raging in Nepal is not as simple as whatever the possible answers to your questions may be. Well, I doubt if there is a single expert who can answer them all to your heart's content, let alone Baburam. The problem cuts across ethnicity, gender, historical neglect and injustice, exploitation by the ruling and urban elites, resource control, landlessness, serfdom, feudalism, exclusion, discrimination, nepotism, corruption, etc. etc. etc., which is already more than a mouthful. Something had to give, so it did. The problem is really a reflection of the failure of the government, development sector, and all concerned. Now we have terrorists (Maoists) in the countryside and state terrorism (trigger happy security forces) across Nepal. Both are terrorists. Know them for what they are: fighting machines even though they may look like your brothers and sisters. Both are brainwashed, and ready to serve their masters. They are pawns in the power game. Increasingly, they resemble each other in ferocity, human rights be damned. I'm surprised that you are already taking sides. I am not. The truth is: one is as likely to be finished off by an Army bullet as by a Maoist bullet for no reason. They say over 10,000 have been killed so far. I am wondering how many of them were actually innocent. If you thought one system is good the other bad or one better than the other in practice, well think again. I for one think they are one and the same - different in ideologies - but similar in actions. They are the Tweedeldee and Tweedeldum -evil twins - of our Himalayan country. As systems I hate them both, as individuals I have equal empathy for both the Army and the Maoist personnel. No sympathy for their masters. Look closely at the army and the Maoists: both have the same kind of farmer's face. But who turned them both from tilling machines into killing machines and for what reason? The executioner's face is always well hidden. Not more than a handful of puppet masters decide the fate of millions of puppets that are indeed us. Whither goes the democracy that I keep hearing about. I could go on writing but soon my words would turn into a meaningless ring.