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Bereaved families narrate dear ones’ killings
KATHMANDU, DEC 13 - “They could have killed me as I am a 70-year old man. My son had the responsibility of looking after his two little ones along with his ailing mother and wife. But they killed him despite my tear-filled pleadings for his life,” wailed Ganesh Bahadur Dahal of Rajghat VDC-9 in Sarlahi district as he narrated how the Maoists shot dead in public his 30-year old son, whose wife was in the family way again.
“I was then expecting a grandson so that we could take it as an incarnation of our murdered son. She gave birth to a daughter,” Dahal grieved. Since then he has thought of committing suicide several times. “But the love for my ailing wife, three grand daughters and the daughter-in-law is compelling me to push this lonely, torn life,” Dahal said.
He also asserted that he would continue fighting with Prachanda and Baburam. “Those sinners will have to suffer. They are drowned into the tears of hundreds of people like me,” Dahal spoke in a choked voice. Kamala Tiwari, another victim from Gorkha expressed her anger at the Maoists, government and the political parties.
“We have cried a lot. We have knocked at the doors of the government and the political parties. But they give us nothing more than assurance, “ bemoaned Kamala.
“You people have not realised our pain,” Tiwari said pointing towards the political leaders seated on the dais.The Maoists had killed Kamala’s husband.
The Maoist victims assembled at the office of the Maoist Victims’ Association (MVA) in the capital today were narrating gruesome stories of how their relatives were the Maoists’ soft targets.
Political leaders, attempting to console the victims, were also expressing their own helplessness after the king’s October 4 move.
“We are now in the street to restore the constitutional process,” Ram Chandra Poudel, the Nepali Congress leader, said while expressing his solidarity with the victims.
He also stressed that the political parties should address the Maoist problems in their agitation. “Maoist issue should be made the major agenda of the movement,” Poudel said. “Democratic process can no longer go ahead until and unless the Maoist problem is resolved.”
He, however, flayed the Maoists as traitors to the nation.
Expressing his displeasure with the party leadership regarding the movement against ‘regression’, Poudel said, “I don’t understand what decisions are made during the all-party meeting,” adding, “I am equally confused what our leaders Girija Prasad Koirala and Madhav Kumar Nepal talk with the king during their audience with the latter.”
He stressed that the leaders should talk to the king on Maoist agenda.
Pradip Gyawali, the UML leader spoke in the same vein.
He also held the Maoists chiefly responsible for the seizure of democracy. Govind Raj Khaniya, the RPP leader, while expressing solidarity with the Maoist victims, said that his party asked the Prime Minister to step down in order to give an outlet to the political stalemate facing the nation.Posted on: 2003-12-14 02:40
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