Sushil-led Government-53: Hijacked Aircraft In Museum?

Siddhi B Ranjitkar

Nepal had none but the nefarious people as the prime ministers and the kings since Prithvi Narayan Shah. That had been the most unfortunate thing happened to the people of Nepal. Unfortunately, current Prime Minister Sushil Koirala had been one of the hijackers of a plane carrying the load of Nepalese banknotes to Biratnagar during the panchayat period. To glorify the criminal act of Sushil Koirala, somebody was going to put the aircraft in the museum for the future generations to realize that NC leaders had been plane hijackers. Sushil Koirala must be very proud of it otherwise he would not let the aircraft hanged in a museum. Great, Nepal could have only such terrorist-minded people as prime ministers. Could Nepalese proud of such terrorists run the country? Certainly not, they had been the hurdles to the smooth development. Some of the people had been proud of such immoral people, and wanted to keep the aircraft in a museum honoring the fanatics. Nepalese needed to get rid of such unscrupulous politicians running the country if they wanted the real development of the country.

Weird news appeared on ‘thehimalayantmes.com’ that stated an aircraft hijacked by the NC members during the panchayat era would be placed in a museum. What a venture to glorify the crime on the one hand and to expose the current Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, as he was one of the hijackers on the other hand. No matter when the crime was committed, the law enforcement officials could arrest such a criminal and put the person on trial. Did Mr. Koirala want to stand trial for the hijacking of the plane? Certainly not, he rather wanted to show off what he had done against the panchayat system. He might have thought it was how he must have saved the democracy. It was not he that saved the democracy. It was the people that did everything for the current political status of the country. Displaying the hijacked plane at a museum would simply justify the future generations of politicians engaging in such immoral activities for the political end.

The news stated, “A plane hijacked by the Nepali Congress in course of a revolt against the then Panchayati system is to be kept at the BP Memorial Museum at Sundarijal in the capital. Arrangements have been made to place the plane at the museum as the museum is going to be developed into a memorial of different democratic movements, said Parshu Ram Pokharel, chairman at the Museum. The late leader Girija Prasad Koirala, Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, Durga Subedi, Basanta Bhattarai and Nagendra Dhungel among others hijacked the aircraft on June 13, 1971. The plane was brought to the country on June 17, 1971 and had been continuously providing services before it crashed on February 16, 2014 in Arghakanchi district.” the plane was hijacked to the unused airport in the neighboring India.

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These political leaders ventured to hijack the plane of the then Nepal airlines flying to Biratnagar for the money it carried. The plane carried a load of banknotes belonging to Nepal Bank for its branch in Biratnagar. At that time, Nepalese were not so rich as today to extort donations as some political parties had been doing today. But the NC leaders needed money to run the party and to launch the protest against the then panchayat. That might be the reasons for Prime Minister Sushil Koirala keeping mute even though businesspersons complained to him about the political parties forcible extracting donations from them.

If the current rulers with the criminal background were to be glorified they must be very proud of the atrocities committed by the Nepal Army and the Maoists at the time of the people’s war from 1996 to 2006. They could set up a number of museums for keeping the records on the human rights violence committed by both the Nepal army and the Maoists. The human rights activists and the international community had been for bringing the Nepal Army officials and the Maoists to justice for the human rights violence they had committed during the conflict period. However, the current government had been trying to bring home the Nepal Army colonel Kumar Lama caught up in the UK for the killings of Maoists in Nepal, to save Lama from getting punishment. I would not be surprised if somebody were to sue Prime Minister Sushil Koirala at the international court of crimes for the hijacking of the aircraft, as he was very bold and proud of keeping the evidences of his criminal activity of hijacking plane in a museum. It also might be the demonstration of his sincerity.

After the reinstatement of democratic system in Nepal in 1990, the first elected Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala turned out to be a man that printed fake Indian banknotes. He proudly said to the TV interviewer that he produced fake Indian banknotes. While talking to the ‘Kantipur TV’ reporter in 2008 when he was the prime minister, late Girija Prasad Koirala boasted how his colleague and he printed fake Indian banknotes, and then they tried it at the gas station in India, it worked very well. At that time they were exiles in India. They needed money to run the political party. The ‘Kantipur’ TV repeatedly ran this statement. I wondered whether somebody would go to the international criminal court for suing such terrorists for bringing him or her to justice in the future.

India denied Girija’s statement of printing fake Indian banknotes otherwise India needed to take actions against Girija for such an unpardonable felony. The news of Girija saying he printed Indian banknotes went so deep into India; the Indian officials had difficulty in dealing with this truth Girija brought into light. So, the Indian government came out with a statement that the printing of Indian banknote was not true. The Indian officials needed to refute the truth otherwise Indian law enforcement officials needed to put the Nepalese Prime Minister on trial. However, the Indian officials had at least proved that Girija was a liar.

Now, I understood why the then elected Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala did not take any actions against the Pancha criminals that had emptied the State treasury and that had killed peaceful demonstrators in 1990s. Then, he did not take any actions against the killers of the royal family on June 1, 2001. He knew that the author of the palace massacre was none other than one of the royal family members. Girija was under the custody of the army general when the massacre at the palace went on that also he knew. Girija knew that one of the palace people sent the news of the palace massacre to the BBC and the CNN without informing the government but he did not dare even to speak it out not to mention about the actions taking against the culprit. Girija had deep sympathy for the political culprits, as his colleagues and he had been so, too.

Prithvi Narayan Shah was the first immoral king. He had cut off the noses and ears of his opponents in Kirtipur. He knew that the Nevah soldier holding the ethic of a soldier should not kill a king saved his life at the battle for Kirtipur otherwise even then the Shah dynasty would have been done away. But he was so cruel he did not save the life of the soldier that saved not only him but also his dynasty. Unfortunately, the dynasty lasted 240 years for the miseries of the Nepalese in general.

When I was a young boy my father used to tell me when a king was angry he used to go with a sword and kill anybody around him in anger. So, the courtiers used to keep a number of goats. Whenever the king got angry and ran with a sword, they brought goats to him. The king chopped off the heads of the goats. At one time, he was so angry he went on chopping off the heads of twelve goats before cooling down his anger. Unfortunately, I did not remember the name of the brutal king.

Then came the rise of Jung Bahadur Kunwar. As he rose from one position to another, he became Rana and later on he became the three-star king of Kaski and Lamjung. His first killing activity was started off with the killing of his maternal uncle Mathabar Singh at the behest of the then king. Mathabar Singh was the prime minister, the impotent king could not fire the prime minister but he hired Jung Bahadur to finish off Mathabar Sing. Jung’s mother broke up her relationship with her son Jung Bahadur for the killing of her brother.

Then, his brothers and Jung killed a number of unarmed courtiers assembled at the Kot. The then queen ordered to assembly all the courtiers without arms. She did it so to find out the killer of her lover Gagan Singh. But Jung came with a group of his brothers. They carried weapons, and stayed far away from the sight of the queen. The queen looking through the window down at the assembly of the courtiers at the courtyard asked her attendant to kill the suspect in killing her lover. He refused to do so as he knew that the suspect was innocent. Then, she ordered somebody to kill the attendant. There was chaos. In order to save themselves some courtiers started to kill each other. Jung called up his armed brothers and massacred all the courtiers saving the queen. Before dying, some of the courtiers shouted that Jung killed Gagan Singh.

The queen became almost the criminal. Her husband king had been inept even before that. Jung could have toppled the Shah dynasty then and there but he stopped short of doing it. He was happy to be called the three-star king of Kaski and Lamjung whereas the real king became the fiver-star one. Jung Bahadur Kunwar became the Jung Bahadur Rana: the king of Kaski and Lamjung. Thereafter, Jung killed anybody dared to oppose him. He also ensured that the job of the three-star king passed on not to the son but to the brothers. He did it so in appreciation of his seventeen brothers killing all the courtiers at the Kot.

After the death of Jung, his brother Ranuddip Singh Rana became the next three-star king in 1877. He ran the administration for eight years. The sons of Jung had been very powerful. The eldest son was married to the princess: the daughter of the king. Ranuddip preferred the first son of Jung to be the next three-star king. Other Jung brothers got the clue about his intention. The rest of the brothers gathered together and decided to finish off Ranuddip. While Ranuddip was having oil message on his back on the sun on the balcony of his palace, his brothers climbed up and shot him to death in 1885.

The Jung brothers crowned the next brother in line as the three-star king. The five-star king had been already a rubber stamp. The Jung brothers went at the sons of Jung and killed as many as they could. They even declared everybody to kill the Jung’s sons, grandsons, and other relatives holding the state offices, and promised the killers the award of the job the person they killed. Some of the Jung’s sons managed to go in hiding and escape to India for safety. They approached the then British officials in India to assist them in taking back their lost three-star crown in Nepal. The British officials bluntly replied, “Your father got to the power with the heavy blood sheds; your uncles did the same thing.”

The Jung brother crowned as the three-star king did not feel safe. He thought if they could kill their own senior brother Ranuddip, and so many nephews and grandnephews mercilessly they also might kill him, too. He did not go to the bed in his palace on that night. He took a shelter in another palace for keeping himself safe.

On that day, the Jung brothers also decided to add ‘shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana’ to their names. ‘Shumsher’ means equal to lion. They took a very fitting name to their character. They were as brutal as the animal in question. Some of their descendents carried on the name knowing or unknowing the meaning of it. Of course, they added Jung Bahadur to their names as an appreciation of Jung being a brutal in securing the job of the three-star king as the hereditary passed on from brother to brother.

Jung Bahadur made the Shah king a rubber stamp in 1847 in a power struggle. Jung Bahadur became a three-star king of Kaski and Lamjung in 1857. Since then the Shah kings were imprisoned within the four walls of the very low grade palace in comparison to the lavishly made European styled-Rana palaces for the Ranas after the return of Jung Bahadur from the Europe visit until the Nepalese people freed the rubber-stamp king Tribhuvan and returned the power to him in 1951.

Knowing the liberation army called “mukti sena” of the NC was tearing down the regime of the three-star Rana King, five-star King Tribhuvan with all his family members except for Gyanendra fled the country. They flew to Delhi in December 1950 on two planes sent by the Indian government. At that time common Nepalese rarely knew that they had another five-star king. Three-star King Mohan Shumsher declared that Tribhuvan had abdicated the throne, and his grandson Gyanendra installed as the new king. Silver coins were minted with the name of Gyanendra. The poor king did not last long, as his grandfather Tribhuvan triumphantly came back home in February 1951.

Mohan Shumsher returned his three-star crown to King Tribhuvan after NC triumphed over the Rana regime in 1951. By that time, Tribhuvan had been a sick man. He had been a rubber stamp king since he became a king at the age of five. He had nothing to do. So, he went on enjoying the life drinking alcohol and flittering with the gorgeous women of that time. Officially he had two queens and one concubine that I knew.

King Tribhuvan was so poor he had no money to treat his ailment. According to the interview of Purushotam Shumsher Rana published in the ‘gorkhapatra’ of February 21, 2015, King Tribhuvan gave the three-star crown to Mahabir Shumsher Rana to sell it in America. The three-star king’s crown was sold at nine million rupees (ninety lakhs). Tribhuvan had used the money for the treatment of his ailment in Switzerland until his death in 1955. The crown certainly belonged to the people but Tribhuvan used it as his private property and shamelessly sold it in the American market. After becoming the king, his son Mahendra also sold the Narayanhity palace to the government at seventy million rupees to the government but he continued to live in the palace. Was not that shameful act? Certainly, it was. Only the Nepalese kings could do such things.

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King Mahendra killed democracy in December 1960. He also killed a number of NC cadres and leaders in a bid to consolidate his power unknowingly sowing the seed of the end of the Shah dynasty. He became a real absolute five-star king. He used all the national resources for building large luxurious palaces for his sons. Mahendra became the symbol of another killer king.

Finally, Gyanendra took over the power and became the king after the palace massacre on June 1, 2001. If the Indian and Nepalese media were to believe Dhirendra came to his sense in the military hospital in Kathmandu, and he said that some people looking like Dipendra shot all the people at the palace gathering on the faithful Friday night. After he lost the power to the elected prime minister in 1990, King Birendra had set the tradition of getting together all the royal family members on the last Friday of every Nepalese month to a drink-and-dance party. The members of the commission on the palace massacre found out that everything at the palace was set so making look like Dipendra had done the horrible job of killing but the last thing not convincing was Dipendra killed himself.

On the camera, the members of commission: Speaker of the then parliament and Chief Justice presented the report on the investigation into the killing of the royal family to Gyanendra. He had nothing but smile to get the report on the killing of his brothers, nephews and nieces, cousins and other relatives. He happily turned over the report to the then Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala for the record.

Gyanendra had nominated Chairman of CPN-UML Madhav Nepal to the member of the commission on investigation into the palace massacre. Chairman Nepal refused to take up the job. That might be the reason for Madhav Nepal not getting the job of prime minister when Gyanendra publicly advertised it for anybody to apply for. Claiming to be the most qualified person, Madhav Nepal applied for the job. Madhav Nepal believed that other leaders were only eight graders or so.

So far, Nepal had all the prime ministers with the criminal background. Some former prime ministers might come up to challenge me but almost all former prime ministers had distinct unscrupulous activities. King Mahendra had deliberately made any prime ministerial candidate involved in one immoral activity or another. Mahendra did it so to make it easy for him to fire any prime minister at his will. He had the weapon of the evidences of misdeeds of his prime ministers.

The Nepalese political cadres and politicians had been equally thugs. They looted the people on the order of their political bosses. They extorted donations from the businesspersons. They put pressure on the ministers for awarding the State-job contracts to their favorites. Prime Ministers and ministers openly emptied the State treasury. In other words, the politicians and political cadres had created havoc and not the rule of law.

March 12, 2015