[MLL] The Furious One Speaks

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The Furious One Speaks ================= ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue cover-dated October 24, 2002 FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The chairman of the outlawed Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Pushpa Kamal Dahal--better known as Prachanda ("the furious one")--is wanted by the Nepalese government and Interpol. Few outsiders have met him. Nepal's press uses a drawing of him as no known photograph exists. But the REVIEW managed to penetrate layers of secrecy to reach the guerrilla leader through hand-delivered letters and a web of Internet addresses, obtaining via e-mail the first interview he has ever given to a major international publication. In his late 40s, Prachanda comes from Chitwan district in southern Nepal, where he graduated from an agricultural college. He was a schoolteacher before he became involved in extreme-leftist politics and went underground in the mid-1980s. As head of a Maoist group, he took part in the popular revolt in 1990 that put an end to the absolute monarchy and restored multiparty democracy. In 1995 he founded the CPN(M); a year later the party launched its "people's war" in Nepal's poverty-stricken northwest. The government says that it's willing to negotiate with the Maoists if they lay down their arms. But Prachanda tells the REVIEW'S Bertil Lintner that disarming is out of the question: ARE YOU WILLING TO HOLD PEACE TALKS WITH THE GOVERNMENT? I want to make it clear that right from the initiation of the people's war in Nepal, our party has been upholding the strategy of political and military offensive against the old feudal state. To enter or not to enter into peace talks with the government is a part of our political strategy . . . It's not a question of willingness rather than a form of struggle that we don't want to be disarmed. WHAT WOULD YOUR DEMANDS BE AT SUCH TALKS? Our minimum demands are widely known: the formation of an interim government, election of a constituent assembly and organizing the country as a democratic republic . . . It's quite clear that how far these demands will be fulfilled through peace talks will ultimately depend on the level of victory achieved in the actual battlefield. WHAT IS YOUR FINAL GOAL? As a revolutionary communist party our final goal is socialism and communism. Right now our peoples are fighting against feudalism and imperialism. Therefore the immediate goal of our revolution is to fulfil the task of complete democratic revolution. We want to organize and develop the country with the full initiative of the masses through the abolition of the feudal and autocratic monarchy. HOW DO YOU EXPECT TO ACHIEVE THAT GOAL? No doubt we will achieve this goal through the politics of people's war. WHAT ARE YOUR COMMENTS ON THE RECENT MOVES BY THE KING? The latest step taken by this regicidal and fratricidal "King" Gyanendra is nothing less than a feudal, autocratic, military coup. This desperate attempt of the feudal "lord" will ultimately be smashed by our great people. DO YOU THINK IT IS POSSIBLE TO HOLD ELECTIONS IN THE PRESENT SITUATION? Our party has already decided that without any political resolution of the civil war, no election will be held. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Katsauksia suomeksi: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Peruuta ryhm�n tilaus l�hett�m�ll� s�hk�postia osoitteeseen: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ International - Local Action and Analysis: http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.