With 10,000+ Nepalis dead and thousands more maimed and affected in the Maoist-started senseless war of almost a decade, the Communist Party of Nepal-United Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) is just getting its act together to establish peace in Nepal.
Better late than never, I suppose.
Still, just saying that it'll put on pressure for peace is NOT enough anymore.
What exactly are its pressure strategies?
How will it use its pressure tactics?
What are the minimum goals?
What is the time-line?
How will the janata judge the success or failure of this campaign?
And what took the UML people this long to press for Nepal's long-standing number-one agenda -- peace -- now?
Unless UML attempts to answer these questions and more, its saying that it'll start a campaign for peace is NOT going to be enough. We all know how it and other parties could not even lead a so-called Jana Andolan to success at Ratna Park last April. In this context, the party's claim to campaign for peace could well end up as another pack of lies that Nepali political parties dole out to the janata.
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CPN-UML to launch campaign for peace process
KOL Report
KATHMANDU, Oct 30 - The Communist Party of Nepal-unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) has decided to launch a campaign to pressurize both the government and Maoists for peace process.
This was revealed by after the meeting of party?s Standing Committee in the capital on Saturday.
The party sources said that both the warring sides have not been pressurized enough and that more pressure is needed to bring them on the track of peace process.
The meeting has decided to form a committee headed by Bamdev Gautam to carry out the campaign.
During the meeting, CPN-UML leader clarified that the party was not consulted during the recent amendment of Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Control and Punishment) (TADO).
UML leader Subash Nemwang said, ?The party would have called for abandoning the act if it was consulted during the amendment.?
The government had reintroduced TADO three weeks ago, with a provision that allows security authorities to keep citizens in preventive detention for a period of one year without having to produce the individual before the court. (dds)