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Debate On Extension Of Term Of UNMIN In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
August 30, 2010: extension of the term of UNMIN has caused controversy among the political leaders that want to complete the peace process to a lasting peace and that want to cause another conflict for their benefits. After signing a Comprehensive Peace Agreement with the Maoists the Government of Nepal in 2006 has invited the UNMIN to Nepal in 2007 following the agreement and put both Nepal Army and the People’s Liberation Arming under the supervision of the UNMIN as agreed in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
As the UNMIN has started working following the mandate given to it, the leaders of the NC and CPN-UML have found that it has not served their interest. So, some of them have openly charged the UNMIN with serving the interest of the Maoists, as it has not served their interest. They have dreamed of making the Maoists as the LTTE and then fight to the finish as the Sri Lankan Government has done killing hundred of thousands of innocent Tamils and even more keeping in the makeshift camps on suspicion that they are sympathizers of the LTTE. The International community and the UN agency in Sri Lanka have been asking the Sri Lankan government to take strong actions against the army that have perpetrated the human rights violations. So, the Sri Lankan government has been forcing the UN agency out of Sri Lanka for that matter. Our NC and CPN-UML leaders most probably are dreaming of the same thing. So, they want to push UNMIN out of the country.
Some political leaders have advised officiating Prime Minister Madhav Nepal to extend the term of the UNMIN but deleting the mandate of supervising the Nepal Army. They do not care of violating the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. These leaders of the so-called political leaders have the hangover of the 240 years of the monarchical rule; so they don’t care of rule of law but of their own interest. So, abusing the mandate given by the people, majority of the legislators have shamelessly elected Madhav Nepal defeated in two constituencies to a Prime Minister and let him rob the nation for 13 months. They want to reduce the mandate of the UNMIN so that the government they will elect violating the mandate given by the people can mercilessly suppress the people, as had done by the monarchists in the past.
Officiating Prime Minister Madhav Nepal wants not to extend the term of the UNMIN so that he can use the Nepal Army to make the Maoists and any others demanding their rights to live decently similar to the LTTE. He had even publicly said that he would make the fate of the Maoists similar to that of the LTTE in Sri Lanka.
Mr. Madhav Nepal has been trying to find any reasons for fighting against the Maoists. Recently, he has publicly said that the Maoists have been trying to reinstate the monarchy. In fact, he has simply borrowed the statement of the man called Kamal Thapa that has been going mad believing to put back the monarchy. Madhav Nepal’s intention of saying such things in the public probably is to find some reasons to use the Nepal Army to begin fighting against the Maoists after sending off the UNMIN.
Mr. Madhav Nepal has met with the ambassadors of different countries to Nepal apparently for convincing them of the need for terminating the term of the UNMIN in Nepal. None of the peace-loving envoys will certainly agree with Mr. Nepal probably except for the Indian Ambassador to Nepal.
Similarly, the Maoists leaders have been lobbying the foreign envoys in Nepal for putting the pressure on the government to extend the term of the UNMIN in Nepal. They have been saying that UNMON needs to stay on in Nepal for integrating the two armies and then completing the peace process for a lasting peace in Nepal.
Mr. Madhav Nepal’s Defenses Minister has been deadly against the integration of the two armies into a single army and has given a green signal to the Nepal Army for the fresh recruitment going against the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. She has a number of times publicly stated that she is ready to go head-on collision with the Maoists. Will such bloodthirsty Defense Minister complete the peace process for a lasting peace as aspired by the Nepalis?
