Found the following on Newsblaze and it was published about 6 days ago over there:
Op-Ed Contributor
Nepal:Maoists Killed A One Year Old Baby
By Kamala Sarup
1. In western Nepal, on June 14, 2005, Maoists killed an infant. Three of the victims have been identified as the wives of Armed Police Force personnel. A one-year-old baby is also among those killed. The six were abducted in western Nepal and their bodies were found in a forest.
2. Five persons are killed when the Maoists attacked a RNA base camp and the Panauti municipality office in Kavrepalanchowk district. (February 7, 2006)
3. Seven persons travelling in a passenger bus from Kathmandu to Dang were killed and three others sustained injuries in an explosion at Surai Naka section on the Mahendra highway at the border of Kapilvastu and Dang districts. (August 27, 2005)
4. At least 37 people were killed and dozens more wounded when a crowded bus detonated a land mine planted by Maoists in Chitwan. Thirty-seven people died and 72 others were wounded. "There was a small bang and then our bus was thrown in the air. The bus was ripped into pieces and many people were killed," said Khum Bahadur Gurung, 62, who spoke to The Associated Press from his hospital bed. Gurung's legs were injured in the explosion. (June 6 2005)
5. Maoists kill ten civilians, including a child, at Baragdawa in the Somni area of Nawalparasi district.(April 16, 2005)
6. Five children are killed and three others sustain injuries during a bomb explosion allegedly triggered by the insurgents at Pakhapani in the Rolpa district.(April 23, 2005)
7. A group of Maoists kill five civilians, allegedly members of an 'anti-Maoist retaliation group', at Kudarmatewa village in the Kapilavastu district. (March 6, 2005)
8. Maoists kill six civilians in the capital Kathmandu. (September 12, 2003)
9. Eight civilians are killed and 12 others sustain injuries in bomb explosions at six places in the capital Kathmandu. (September 8, 2003)
10. Maoist rebels killed 50 security men in midwestern Nepal. Maoists lined up 40 soldiers and shot them on the head and cut off parts of their bodies. An extreme form of barbaric act terrorists mutilated and killed soldiers. (August 7 2005)
12. At least 300 Maoists attack a hilltop police post in Rukum district and kill 31 police personnel, besides injuring 11 and abducting 23 more. (April 1, 2001)
13. 48 Royal Nepal Army troops and 49 police personnel are killed by Maoists in Mangalsen (Acham district) clashes.(February 17, 2002)
14. 49 police personnel are killed and 21 more injured in an attack by a group of an estimated 1,100 Maoist insurgents in Sindhuli district at the Bhimad police post. (September 8, 2003)
15. Maoists insurgents, numbering around approximately 1500 to 2000, attack Nepal Telecommunication Towers and kill 32 security force personnel in Bhojpur district.(March 3, 2004)
9. A group of Maoists kill five civilians, allegedly members of an 'anti-Maoist retaliation group', at Kudarmatewa village in the Kapilavastu district. (March 6, 2005)
Nepali people continue to fall victim to their barbaric acts. Maoists war enter a stage of genocide. It is unacceptable to let innocent people be killed in the name of Maoists. Maoists is a theoretical threat to Nepal's democracy and civil liberty. Nepal could turn into another Cambodia, Afghanistan, Bosnia or Rwanda.
Radical Maoists are attempting to preserve their killing culture from contamination. Nearly ten years of Maoists war have left roughly 15,000 Nepalese dead.
"The Maoists have links with similar groups in India, including the People's War in Andhra Pradesh and the Maoist Communist Centre in Bihar bordering Nepal. The Maoists plan a compact revolutionary zone stretching from northern Andhra Pradesh through central and eastern India to Nepal. This will not only offer a mutual moral support but also help them procure and distribute weapons illegally.
Insurgency in Nepal can have its impact in Indian states such as Bihar, West Bengal and Jammu & Kashmir as well, particularly if more weapons are delivered by foreign powers to militants clandestinely. The Maoists' struggle may even spill over to Bhutan. The cross-border linkage of the Maoists poses a great threat, now that they have become a major force in Nepal. But India's military power can ensure that the spillover of the Nepalese insurgency in under check within its territory.
In India, Andhra Pradesh state has brought forth a fairly lasting ceasefire with its insurgency group and talks are on. As a bigger power, it would be safe for India not to get into a quagmire of a neighbour, except for giving military support if needed. Of late, the policy of India towards Sri Lanka is the same, and that is why Norwegians have come in as mediators.
The Maoist insurgency in Nepal has claimed over 15,000 lives since it began in February, 1996. It now affects 73 out of 75 districts. The rebels have raised their own guerrilla force, militia and parallel government units in their strongholds. They also operate parallel people's courts and are preparing to implement new Maoist-oriented syllabi in schools in their strongholds. This has made the Government dysfunctional in almost all of western Nepal.
A negotiation with maoists depends on a give and take. Or else, the options are (i) rapid development of rural Nepal (underdevelopment being the fertile ground for militancy) or (ii) militarily eliminating the Maoists or (iii) a combination of both." Chief Sub-Editor with The Hindu, and advisor of PJ Dr. I Arul Aram said.
It is true, the Communist groups in the Universities and in the schools during the 70's tried for a Marxist revolution and failed. By tradition, the power behind any communist revolution was rejected. After that they then tried for black support, but again they were rejected. They then used the Vietnam War and Shining Path, that too disappeared. Lacking support, the movement apparently faded away.
The fact is that the Nepali Maoists are members of the International Revolutionary Movement (RIM). Nepali Maoists have joined the Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organizations of South Asia formed in 2001.
Maoists And Combodia
Radical Maoist movements have failed to take power in Peru, but Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia and their tactic was to terrorize the countryside by setting up ambushes and seeding minefields. The Khmer Rouge regime traumatized millions of Cambodians and it created a permanent scare in every Cambodian citizen. A lot of individuals died because Pol Pot was too incompetent to deal with economic and social development in the country.
During the 1975-79 rule of the radical Maoists at least 1.7 million Cambodians died due to disease, starvation, overwork and execution. There was no banking and finance, no private ownership of property, and no religion.
Peru And Maoists
During the 1980s, the Shining Path, waged an armed struggle against the Peruvian state. Approximately 30,000 Peruvians were killed. Shining Path Maoists organization was formed in the late 1960s. In the 1980s and early 1990s, vicious terrorist attacks were daily occurrences across Peru perpetrated by the Shining Path. Many dozens of people have died under Maoists violence. Now, all the leaders of maoists organization are in prison.
By 1994, Shining Path had lost much of their strength. According to the Mesa Nacional Sobre Desplazamiento, a consortium of non-governmental organizations, the conflict displaced some 430,000, but "affected" as many as 1.6 million. Some 60,000 people remained internally displaced within Peru. Hundreds of thousands of Peruvians fled their Andean homes in the 1980s and early 1990s. They fled a violent insurgency.
Reference
1.The Telegraph,Wednesday, June 15, 2005.
2.World Security Network, Kamala Sarup, 19-Aug-05.
3. The Associated Press, June 6, 2005.
4.The Hindu, 10 June 2005.
5. South Asia Intelligence Review of the South Asia Terrorism Portal Major incidents of terrorist violence in Nepal, 1999-2006.
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