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Marking Martyrs’ Week In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 25, 2012: on the first day of the Martyrs’ Week, first mayor of Kathmandu Janak Lal Shrestha has marked the first day of the Martyrs’ Week offering a flower garland to the picture of the Martyr Sukraraj Shastri yesterday at the tree on which he was hanged to death seventy two years ago. He was the first man to get martyrdom for standing up against the Rana/Shah autocratic family rule that had sucked the blood of the people to the extent possible and had kept the people in dare poverty. Then the Rana/Shah rulers shot to death Gangalal and Dasrath Chand, and hanged to death Dharma Bhakata in the same year. All of them had come out rebellious against the despotic rule of the Rana/Shah that had kept the Nepalis in poverty.
The irony is that the statue of the man called Tribhuvan as a king had given his approval to kill the four brave men that had stood against the Rana/Shah tyrannical rule is standing on the top of the statues of the four brave martyrs mentioned above at the Sahidgate in Kathmandu. Some political leaders including some of them of the NC leaders have opposed the current government’s decision on removing the statue of the killer Tribhuvan from the Sahidgat to the museum. Most probably they want to keep the memory of the tyrannical rule alive not removing the statue from the Sahidgate.
As an honor to the martyrs that had sacrificed their beautiful lives for the sake of the people and for the freedom from the tyrannical rule, the statue of Tribhuvan needs to go from the Sahidgate, as the statue of the killer Tribhuan could not stay above the martyrs he ordered to kill. People opposing the removal of the statue of the killer Tribhuvan should be declared anti-people means anti-nation, as opposing to remove the statue of the killer at the Sahidgate they are trying to preserve the remnants of the despotic rule.
Marking Martyrs’ Week would be meaningful if we can meet the dreams of those martyrs standing up against the remnants of the despotic rule and freeing the people from any possibility of the despotic rulers coming back to power. Some people opposing to the removal of the statue of killer Tribhuvan have indicated that they have not left the dream of bringing back the despotic rulers. So, the government needs to deal with them properly otherwise the people would deal with them in the manner needed to.
