Analysis: Have the Maoists’ insurgents entered the valley?

January 3, 2001
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Kathmandu: The Maoists’ insurgents have hinted that they were very much in the Kathmandu valley and that they can target their explosives towards any politician. Minister(s) or any other political functionaries.

This they apparently exhibited by exploding three separate explosives in the quarters of three congress active members.

The selection of the personalities where the explosives exploded is surprising. If the first bomb exploded in Sushil Koirala’s house then the next one saw the blast occurinng in former minister Govind Raj Joshi’s private residence in Pulchowk.Similarly the third bomb exploded in the house of education minister Dilendra Badu’s house.

To recall, all these congress personalities possess hardened posture against the Maoists’ insurgents. Junior Koirala, to recall, sees this insurgency as a terrorist act. We all know former minister Joshi’s hard stance taken against the insurgents while he was the home minister. This also means that the insurgents still recall Joshi’s tenure in government.

What is frightening is that the Maoists have hinted that this process would continue and their next targets could be corrupt leaders, bureaucrats and the businessmen.(See Punarjagaran weekly dated 2January 2001).

The intellectuals and the lay men remain dumb founded over the spate of bombings in the capital and think of their fate if such gelatins and its explosions take place more in the days ahead.

Interestingly enough since the Maoists insurgents have already claimed responsibility to have bombed these houses of the congress bigwigs which has left the people and the politicians to remain under constant panic and threat. This also means apparently that the insurgents have been emboldened by the current stalemate in the congress camp for obvious reasons. The accompanying letter to the editor printed in the last page of this issue hints at the fact that the insurgents have big plans for Kathmandu. However, who has sent the letter is yet a mystery.