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2005-08-04 Afghanistan/South Asia

Amnesia Int'l condemns Nepal self-defense groups

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Posted by Steve White 2005-08-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The strategy of using village self defense units is actually paying off for the Nepal Government. They are killing maoists in numbers the Nepali army cannot yet accomplish.

This of course is problematic for the human rights activists. When maoists kill villagers the human rights groups urge the Nepal Government to seek a peaceful settlement. They claim that no military solution is possible.

Well, a military solution is possible. The village self defense units and the Nepalese army can simply kill them all, or at the very least degrade them by attrition until they fade into irrelevancy.

Which is the problem (for Amnesty Interntional)
The human rights activists seek a delegitimization of the Nepali state (and neighboring Indian states as well), leading to incorporation of maoists within the government and eventual takeover.

The self defense units are exposing the lie. The problem is not violence. It is maoism. This is the 21st century and mao, marx and lenin have been consigned to the cesspit. The solution is for the maoists to stop being maoists, either voluntarily of at the end of a machete being wielded by a pissed off villager.

Being an uneducated villager, they have little tolerance for commies, unlike Amnesty International.

Posted by john 2005-08-04 14:27|| 2005-08-04 14:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Damn fine John. Pleased to read 'ya.

Posted by Shipman 2005-08-04 15:53|| 2005-08-04 15:53|| Front Page Top

#3 The other problem it creates for AI is the growing movement to have th4e U. N. make the right to bear arms a universal right.

And have you ever heard AI complain that in Iraq terrorists "blur the distinction between combatants and non-combatants, resulting in an increased number of civilian casualties,"

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-08-04 16:20|| 2005-08-04 16:20|| Front Page Top

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