Nepal's elusive Maoist rebel leader "Prachanda" has ruled out peace talks or a cease-fire with the government, predicting that the nine-year-old war would see the Maoists come to power soon. "Right now, we do not see any possibility of talks with these mediaeval and barbaric feudal autocrats," he told Reuters in an interview by email received on Monday. "Right now, the possibility of a cease-fire does not exist."| They want to replace the mediaeval and barbaric fuedal autocrats with modern and barbaric Commie autocrats. That makes sense. Of a sort... |
Prachanda, whose nom de guerre roughly means "awesome," responded with equal bitterness. "The seizure of power by the widely hated regicidal and fratricidal king is nothing else than the last and desperate attempt of feudal autocracy against the democratic thrust and aspiration of the Nepalese masses," he said.