Maoists attack base, free prisoners

[dArKeR]

In a series of coordinated assaults, communist rebels attacked a Nepalese army base, bombed nine government buildings and stormed a local jail freeing more than a dozen comrades, officials said yesterday. Two police officers were killed.

The near-simultaneous attacks occurred at Charikot, about 120km east of Katmandu, said police officials reached by telephone on condition of anonymity.

Two police officers were killed in the attack on the local jail, which set free 28 inmates including 15 rebels being held.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/04/11/2003250030

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. I wonder what...

Makes people follow the teachings of Chairman Mao. It's not as if a lot is not known about the failings of his philosophies.

[derby378]

2. On a lighter note...

...I think my cat follows him. Every time he greets me, he says "Mao! Mao!"

[Mizmoon]

12. LOL

I can hardly wait to get home and use my new fangled "the cat is a commie" joke.

[paulk]

3. ignorance

last time I was in Kathmandu, someone had painted on a wall next to the "New Highway" - Lenin! Stalin! Mao!

Kinda scary, really...

[David__77]

4. Because he dared to stand up to US imperialism.

He opposed Anglo-American domination of China and fought for his nation's independence. If it weren't for Mao Zedong and the Chinese revolution, China would be far worse off, like Burma or Bangladesh.

The people of Nepal have every right to have their own social system. It certainly appears the Nepalese communists have broad and deep support.

[tritsofme]

6. That whole Cultural Revolution

sure left the Chinese better off...

[David__77]

7. That's right.

Women and children were encouraged to rebel against feudal tradition. Old ways that weighed on people were shattered. There were excesses, but they didn't even compare with police brutality and racist crime in this country. I hope that progressives look to the US' dirty laundry before condemning others. My point is mainly that the US should not support the fascist monarchy in Nepal, and that the people of Nepal have every right to make revolution.

[tritsofme]

8. "There were excesses"

No reason to even continue this conversation.

Thanks.

[4dsc]

9. There were excesser throughout US history

Just ask any Indian or person of African heritage!!!

[David__77]

5. Good.

The fascist Nepalese monarchy propped up with US blood money has no moral right to imprison anyone, least of all patriots who are fighting for their country's freedom.

[Vladimir]

10. I would remind those unhappy with this turn of events

that a certain country in the Western hemisphere once fought long and hard to throw of its colonial and monarchic shackles... before you condemn the Nepalese patriots, think a little about how your own state was founded. The Nepalese have a right to their freedom, and to a political and social system of their own choosing. May they soon have both.

[Igel]

11. You're right. I think they should throw what must be a non-Nepalese

monarchy right out of the country, or preferably, do as the Russians did--kill the reigning monarch as he issued decrees from the throne. The freedom fighters receive no outside funding whatsoever, to do otherwise would completely undermine the long tradition of revolutionary movements being entirely self-financed.

(And I don't think there's an accurate fact in anything in this post, except this sentence.)