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Nepal / Burma ASA -ABSL
- Subject: Nepal / Burma ASA -ABSL
- From: cd@xxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 15:02:00
Dear Burma Readers,
Two earlier postings re "The International Women's Day"and "ASA says NO
to Visit Myanmar Year 1996" filed by the ASA ASBL branch in India,
referred to Free Burma lobbying in the Himalayan country Nepal, and
described solidarity with the student activists there in the context of
the 13th General Conference of the All Nepal National Free Students Union
(ANNFSU). While I am not familiar wilth the ANNFSU, I request more
objectivity in the reporting from Nepal. The Communist Party of Nepal,
while the leader of the opposition, during the last six to seven years of
democracy there, except for a short, six month government last fall
overthrown by the current coalition government headed by the Nepali
Congress Party, has never been the "main Nepalese political party", as
so described in the posting.
In fact, the Nepali Congress, historically the leading opposition party
during the last fifty years of struggle for democracy and human rights in
nepal, against the King's panchayat one party system of government,
continues to be the leading, central political in Nepal, offering both
stability and traditional leadership. Many of its leaders, Ganesh Man
Singh, GP Koriala,(Prime Minister during three and a half years,
and brother to the late great BP Koriala, the country's first Prime
Minister in 1959, and for thirty years leader of the Congress Party, and
KP Bhatterai, are still on the front line, and while they do represent
the Old Guard of the Nepali Congress Party, once closely linked with
Nehru in India, there are many younger leaders to continue the Congress
struggle for democracy and stability for development in Nepal.
The Communist Party , one of the last vistages of marxist-leninist
opposition, is dictated to by the Chinese in a very unique case of power
relations in the region between China and India. It is regrettable that
even the Congress Party followed the tactics of the Chinese in denouncing
Tibet and imprisoning Tibetan protestors, in anticipation of the recent
Prime Minister's delegation from Kathmandu to China -one of the few
countries to do so. But such is the influence of China in tiny poor
Nepal, a country of strong able people, locked between two superpowers,
and emerging as a free and representative democracy.