Indifferent Parliamentarians,Laxed Government & Unruly, Insane Mobs-Creating Chaotic Nepal

We have been reading the recent news about the shut-down of all health services across the country except emergency services. We also have read the news about the low participation of lawmakers in the lower house. And to add to this all, the government is chilling out in the warm summer breeze. What a destiny we fought sacrificing more than 20 lives in so-called peaceful protests. What more do we want?


This is Nepal. Anything and everything happens here without any rational thinking. People go insane over one and all issues. The people are never patient. They act on their instincts rather than informed decisions. And more, there are some religious fundamentalists who are trying to incite yet another wave of violence across the country. Where are we heading?

It is the right of every individual to protest against anything that goes wrong. However, nobody has the right to incite violence to further self-interests. We have been used and abused from time and again. We, the Nepalese, have the added disadvantage of being illiterate and ignorant and thereby we have lost our conscience. We fail to think and reason. We move by the crowd. Are we different from the howling jackals?

To add to the woes, newly reinstated lawmakers are having a fun time probably in some cocktail parties. There were less than 20 members of the house in one of the house meetings. For Heaven's sake, this is less than 1/10th of the total house members. Kantipur(May 26,2006, Govt. to take…) writes:

As attendance declined sharply in the House, several members drew the attention of the government and Speaker to empty seats inside the House…."If this situation continues, I will quit politics," Gopal Koirala said, pointing at less than 20 members attending the meeting.

More than 20 people died so that these insane people could get to the house and devise plans for the country. And now we have been paid off pretty decently. Thanks to our ever-corrupted and work-shy lawmakers. We should be grateful that we have such dedicated lawmakers in the country.

Day by day the country is being ruled by the mobs. I just read the news about a police van being set on fire by some insane people. Then, there was the news about Everest Nursing Home. How can we forget the irrational people who attacked the doctor in the southern Nepal? We are destined for all this. We need to think more.

I am not denying that there are problems with the health service providers too. We need to, however, investigate such malpractices and punish according to the law. These lawmakers are not paid to stay out of office. They have to go to the scheduled house meetings and bring new ideas to help in rebuilding the nation. For heaven's sake…can we think before we shatter the windows, set vehicles on fire, and or shy away from our duties?

Original Article: http://dreamnepal.wordpress.com

Did anyone read this? Here is what I feel.(copied from dreamnepal)

"They would shove my head into filthy water that filled a big cauldron sunk into the ground. They would shove my head underwater maybe twenty or twenty-five times, asking me questions. Sometimes I would become unconscious. Sometimes they would punch me in the stomach when I was underwater or give me electric shocks when they pulled my up. I would feel the shock in my whole body and lose consciousness. One time I asked to urinate. They did not take me to the toilet. They took me to another spot and told me to piss. Below, I could see a electric heater coil. When I urinated,I felt the shock enter my body. I woke up much later, lying in the Hall. There was saline in my arm. My genitals were swollen and painful. Later a doctor told me that I could not ever have an erection again. The damage is permanent."


This is just a part of the whole story.



These cases of torture are common all over the barracks as revealed by the recently published OHCHR report. I did not believe Nepal Army (previously known as RNA) could go into such a low standard. But, the truth is truth. They tortured and tormented thousands of people. Many have been disappeared, several others left injured, some suffer from permanent injuries like the one mentioned above. Things have gone wrong for a long time.


Not only were the army personnel involved in their abuse. Even medical personnels who used to visit them for treatment repeatedly asked these people to confess and disclose information about maoists and hence indirectly coercing them to open up informations about maoists.According to several testimonies, members of the medical profession were involved in the torture, ill-treatment and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment, in that they resuscitated those who fell unconscious and treated the wounds without apparently questioning the authorities concerned regarding the treatment meted out. Their care appeared to sustain and facilitate ongoing torture and other ill-treatment.

The report says, however, that none of the victims questioned admitted as being directly abused by the medical staff. Torture was just a part of the whole grim scenario. Movements were restricted and whenever someone was to be transferred, he used to be blindfolded. Most of those detained were permanently handcuffed and or blindfolded. What a prison camp. These detained people were kept under the permanent "watch" by acts of torture on a daily basis. The report further writes:

"… most of the people kept there [during one period] were beaten three times a day with a pipe. I was beaten twice, in the morning and in the evening, about ten blows. Others received two dozen, right there [in the place of detention], one after the other. Half of them were made to stand on their heads. I did this for two or three days then could not. Sometimes, while standing on the head, a soldier would come without a single word and kick him with his boot. The person would fall down".



These things drive me crazy. What on earth was going on in the country? How were we blindfolded all these years? Did we even have democracy? I am sure these acts of torture happened even during the democratic period when our honorable PM Girija, Deuba and so forth were on the chair. What do you people think?