If a person is locked in a room, should that person try to escape from the window? What do you think?
The same is true for Nepal. The country has been India locked for the last 50 Years. India, under the guise of 'special relationships' is trying to block the soverignity of Nepal and make it de facto colony. India is the the root cause of our ills. The UK, USA and others have donated large funds for the development of Nepal, where as India doesnot spend a penny. West has raised the issue of poor governance in nepal as root cause, where as India is silent on this Crucial issue. It is because India has through all kind of economical and political leverage, and taking undue advantage of landlocked position of Nepal, worked to succumb Nepal to its knees. This is the reality the West need to understand. Hence Maoism is not the cause of the problems of Nepal, it is rather the only solution, as Nepalese people are locked in a room by India and the rest of the world valued their business linkages with India more than the Freedom of Nepalese People.
For more info, read this message from Washington:
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DELHI LEAVES NEPAL GATE AJAR
FROM K.P. NAYAR
Washington, June 23:
WWhen Nepal’s King Gyanendra and Indian leaders get down on Monday to discussing the nitty-gritty of their bilateral relations, their talks will be unlike any other between India and Nepal in the last half a century.
For the first time since India’s “special relationship” with Nepal was acknowledged by the rest of the world during Jawaharlal Nehru’s prime ministership, looming over these discussions will be the shadow of two major powers, the US and the UK.
The terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on September 11 and the Maoist sub-plot to the terrorist threat to America from South Asia have brought about an undercurrent of change in the fundamentals of India’s ties with Nepal.
Underscoring this change was a two-day international initiative on Nepal, which concluded in London almost on the eve of the King’s departure for New Delhi today.
Hosted by the British government, it was attended by India, the US, Russia, China, Japan, France, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, Australia and, of course, Nepal.
Nepalese sources, who attended the meeting in London told The Telegraph that the basic structure of the conference was a rehash of the meetings held every year in Paris to discuss international aid to Kathmandu.
But they said there were two crucial differences. Most important, India has consistently refused to attend the annual Paris dialogue except as an observer, arguing that India’s assistance to Nepal is a bilateral matter in view of its special ties with the kingdom.
Second was the presence of China at the London meeting. China has all along made the mandatory noises about Nepal, but has, in effect, conceded that the kingdom comes under India’s sphere of influence.
When the Communists were elected to power in Nepal in 1994, Beijing went out of its way to assure the P.V. Narasimha Rao government that it would not be party to any attempt in Kathmandu to play the China card against New Delhi.
By its active participation in the London meeting and its endorsement of China’s presence at the conference, India has signalled that it is no longer averse to greater internationalisation of Nepal’s problems.
Such a change, which has deep ramifications for the future of South Asia, actually started with US secretary of state Colin Powell’s visit to India in January. Nepal figured prominently in Powell’s talks with Indian leaders.
From New Delhi, Powell travelled to Kathmandu, the first US secretary of state to visit Nepal in half a century.
Committing the US unequivocally to a future role in Nepal, Powell prescribed solutions to Nepal’s terrorist threat, which were drastically different from US prescriptions in Afghanistan.
He said in Kathmandu: “You have to fight the terrorist activity. You have to fight the terrorist, but at the same time you must commit your nation and your government to good governance and to ending corruption, to finding ways to move the economy forward, diversifying the economy, taking advantage of the natural resources you have, such as the potential that exists in this country with respect to hydroelectric opportunities.”
In a promise which could have ramifications for the unique nature of trade and transit arrangements between India and Nepal, Powell also talked of Kathmandu’s membership of the World Trade Organisation as a “worthy goal”.
He met military authorities in Kathmandu to discuss US armed assistance to help fight the Maoists. Back in Washington, Powell persuaded President George W. Bush to seek an additional $20 million in emergency assistance to Nepal.
But more significantly, the secretary of state’s visit to Nepal has been followed by unprecedented and intense activity between Kathmandu and Washin |