Indefinite closure : day 6



Today is the sixth day of closure in Nepal and the peace assembly had been organized by non political group. Initially the program was to be the peace rally but as Maoists threatened the organizers the rally was cancelled so only peace assembly was held. At 9 am one of the world's heritage site, Basantapur Durbar Square was filled with tens of thousands peace loving Nepali. Under strict police protection the program proceeded where the only demand kept by Nepali was to restore peace and come into political consensus. Their appeal was not only to one political party but to all; including the Government of Nepal and the rebelling party. But only Maoists party had problems with this rally, so many questions that arises here is why the Maoists party had problems with the rally when it was only for peaceful reason, which is also one of the demands of Maoists. The peace assembly has given two days mandate for the political parties to come into consensus but looking at the current situation the consensus looks like a farfetched dream



The Maoists party not only threatened the organizers but also obstructed general public to walk in the road. They stopped people from FNCCI Lalitpur in Kupondole to go to the rally and there were clashes between the peace rally participants and Maoists cadres. Even the top leader of Maoists and CA member, Ms. Pampha Bhushal, tried to stop her cadres to let those people move towards the assembly but the cadres did not seem to accept her orders. This show that the Young Communist League (YCL) aka cadres are not in control of Maoists, the party which cannot maintain discipline within their own party, will they be able to lead the country is the another question that arises now.



The peace assembly successfully ended but the general public risked their lives and preceded the rally too. The rally was meant for peace restoration in Nepal and was not targeted against any political party. At some places during the rally there were clashes between peace rally and the cadres as the latter threw stones on the former and then the police was compelled to fire tear gas to both the parties. What is most surprising is that they don’t even recognize their country's flag as one of the demonstrator asked which organization's flag was that. This incident shows that how patriotic the YCL cadres are as they don’t even know what their country's flag looks like. I am ashamed to say that they also account up to the Nepalese population.



The other surprising fact is that why are they attacking the civilians and if Maoists are intended to attack the civilians then their strike is just to come into power and nothing else. In Patan, another world heritage site, the YCL entered the house of civilians and attacked them as the civilians were outraged who were obstructed to participate in the peace assembly attacked the vehicles of Maoists and three cadres brutally.



Moreover, the remarks of YCL, Kathmandu Incharge, Sagar left every participants of the rally agitated. He alleged that all the participants of the rally were paid by the Government and is the conspiracy against Maoists. According to his statement, Nepalese are those who abide by their ideologies and those who have ideologies different than them are not a Nepali. They claim that they are fighting for the people's right and democracy but their action and words both says the exact opposite story. The allegation that the participants of the rally were paid says their story that they are bringing the participants by paying them.



Amidst all these scenarios, a woman has been alleged to mix poison on the waters of Maoist cadres in one of the main junctions of demonstration in Kathmandu. The alleged woman though claims to have bought that poison to kill her but the demonstrators has seen them mixing it on water bottles that she sold to Maoists. The two holes in the bottle of the poison shows that she has used that and if she intended to kill herself then why haven't she used it till then and why had she created a hole in it to pass the poison when she had intended to kill herself later. People have also claimed that two men had given her NRs.20,000 (around $274) to mix poison in the water. The demonstrators brutally beat her up in the presence of security forces and human rights activist though they tried to protect her from them. At last she fainted and the human right activist took her to the hospital and is under protection of security force and human right activist. The whole story is expected to be verified once she gets conscious.



With all these incidents taking place in the capital city shows that the country is moving towards the state of terror and posing the threat of civil war as civilians are being attacked by Maoists. The civil war can break at any point as civilians are out of ration and stuffs that are required on a daily basis and now the Maoists are obstructing their freedom of speech and to move freely.

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