Johannes Schneider wrote:
>
> > The right wing communists, the Communist Party of Nepal (United
> > Marxist-Leninist) - normally referred to as the UML or the "mailais" -
> > who form the official opposition in the parliament to the Nepali
> > Congressi government, announced yesterday that after a review of the
> > commission's work that they have "taken the report in a positive note."
>
> It seems as if the UML has taken a volte face and now questions the official
> probe:
> >From nepalnews.com at:
> http://www.nepalnews.com.np/archive/2001/june/arc232.htm#1
>
> Left parties describe probe report incomplete and unclear
>
> Kathmandu, June 19: The six leftist parties including main opposition
<snip> A joint meeting of
> six leftist parties discussed the report of the high-level panel in
> Kathmandu Tuesday. They issued a joint statement after the meeting, which
> says that the report of high-level committee on Royal Palace incident was
> far from reality. The fact and reality of the mysterious Royal Palace
> incident would come to light in the future, the statement states.
>
> However, six left parties have decided not to make the report a subject of
> their protest considering the conspiracy being hatched by internal and
> external reactionary forces against Nepal and the Nepali people, the
> statement says. Six left parties, who had been launching street protest
> against the government over Lauda Air deal, have decided to continue their
> protest until Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala resigns. The statement
> also criticised the government for brining about the new Security Regulation
> and described it as an anti-democratic act of the government. CPN-UML, Nepal
> Communist Party (Masal), Nepal Communist Party (Unity Centre), United
> People's Front, Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party, National People's Front are in
> the joint front against the government. The underground Communist Party of
> Nepal (Maoist) has already rejected the report of the probe panel on Royal
> Palace incident.
Thanks Johannes. This is coming very quickly to a head. The new Security Regulation ends democracy and all civil liberties. Given the KTM Post story you posted claimed that the UML had formed a bloc with (perhaps only one of the two factions of) the nationalist-royalist RPP, a front may be forming all the way from the RPP to Comrade Prachanda and Baburam. The only significant political force missing is the CPN-ML, and those guys are stronger anti-Indian nationalists than the UML, and that is what this is now all about. There is a spooky UPI (who owns them now, some Saudi prince or something?) Bangkok Post "interview" today with the U.S. Ambassador to Nepal that admits that it's all about whether the Royal Nepali Army will be used against the kids, and assumes that unless something is done quickly the dread maoists will have their way etc http://www.bangkokpost.com/today/190601_News20.html
john mage