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Appeal
of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) |
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Republic
be declared immediately to ensure the Constituent Assembly Election!
Comprehensive
round table conference be organized for proportional representation! |
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Communist
Party of Nepal (Maoist), Central Office, Press Release, 20. August 2007
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| Liberation
seeking Nepalese people has been raising slogans for the end of feudal
monarchy and election of the Constituent Assembly from about 60 years.
During the great Peoples' War under the leadership of CPN (Maoist) and
joint mass movement of, tens of thousands of martyrs established this slogan
in the National Political Agenda by sacrificing their life. On the basis
of the bitter experience of the past when the feudal royalist elements
repeatedly hatched conspiracy to not to allow the constituent assembly
election to be held, CPN (Maoist) did hold till the last moment of the
peace process that only after declaring republic the constituent assembly
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However,
due to the commitment of the parliamentary parties to hold the election
within 14th June, 2007, CPN (Maoist) in spite of its serious doubt agreed
to go to the Constituent Assembly election by keeping the monarchy in suspension.
But,
alas! The history again got repeated. According to the master plan of monarchy
and its foreign abettors, they made such an environment in which election
could not be held by spreading massacre, terror and anarchy in madhesh
and other parts of the country. Therefore, CPN (Maoist) once again put
forward and took stand for the demand of constituent assembly that can
only be held after the abolition of monarchy and establishing republic
and our party wrote the 'note of decent' regarding the postponement of
the election to November 22, 2007. In the insistence of CPN (Maoist) only
there was the second amendment of the constitution for abolishing the monarchy
by the two third majority of the interim legislature. But, events after
that are proving that the situation of anarchy, massacre and terror still
exists as the pre Jestha (June 14th) scenario in Madesh and other places.
Even after this monarchy and retrogressive elements are still active. In
order to disrupt the constituent assembly election armed gangs are mushrooming
every passing day. In this situation, there would be no greater lie, hypocrisy
and insincerity than to say that constituent assembly election can be held
by keeping the monarchy in place. Right now, the monarchy is the main obstacle
to hold the election. Therefore, the environment for the constituent assembly
election can be created only by completely abolishing monarchy from interim
legislature and for this it is an inevitable necessity of today to carry
on the struggle from all the fronts, the government, legislature and the
street.
In
addition to the conspiracy by national and international reactionary forces
against the constituent assembly election objectively another important
adverse reason for the conducive environment for constituent assembly election
is the lack of guarantee of proportional representation of different oppressed
indigenous - tribal, madeshi, women and oppressed caste people. During
the peace process CPN (Maoist) had fought for the restructuring of the
state in federal form, and proportional representation but especially due
to the insistence of Nepali Congress and also due to the fear of the obstruction
of the whole peace process we were compelled to be flexible for the agreement.
However, the series of incidence after that and especially the incident
of Madesh have conformed that without ensuring the proportional representation
of all oppressed class, nationality, region, sex the constituent assembly
election is not possible to be held and should not even be held.
Because
constituent assembly election is not a periodical parliamentary election
but it is a body that makes the main law of the land for long term and
if there can't be the proportional representation of different sects of
people in it, there is the possibility of emergence of conflict of serious
nature. In this situation, by organizing a comprehensive round table conference
of the representatives of all the agitating Madeshi, indigenous-tribal,
oppressed, women, the civil society and the political parties etc a common
consensus should be built up which is the another important basis to ensure
the election of the constituent assembly. In stead of doing this, to go
on taking initiative to negotiate with all the daily mushrooming outfits
and wasting time and energy really means in substance only to endanger
the constituent assembly election it self.
Another
important reason for not having conducive environment for the constituent
assembly election in the country is because all the provisions in the Comprehensive
Peace Accord are not firmly and promptly implemented and no work was done
to create the feeling of change in the life of people even after the 10
years of people's war and 19 days of historical mass movement.
Especially
not providing any relief to the martyrs of the people's war and the mass
movement, not having proper treatment to the wounded, not finding out the
real situation of the disappeared, not managing the Peoples' Liberation
Army properly, not taking initiative to implement the fundamental rights
of the people in education, health, employment, right for food according
to the provision of the interim constitution, instead of running the interim
government through consensus, running it like one party or multiparty system
of the past etc, the situation is increasingly becoming repulsive rather
than attractive for the people to go on for the election of constituent
assembly. Apart from that different international reactionary forces are
spreading unwanted activities and interference by taking advantage of this
transitional period which has created a great danger for the national sovereignty
and glory.
In
the whole the country is facing a great crisis. If the existing wide spread
situation of obstacle, confusion, doubt, anarchy is not confronted by the
forward moving way then according to the historical law there is a great
danger of the country again returning to regression and in a fierce conflict.
If the country again returns to conflict that will be dreadfully fatal,
destructive and might create the risk for the existence of the nation.
So, all true patriotic, democratic, republican and leftist forces who favour
peace, democracy, progression, it has become a necessity to carry on the
struggle to create minimum atmosphere for the sake of ensuring the election
of the constituent assembly and making the peace long lasting.
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The
22-point prerequisite to ensure the election of the Constituent Assembly |
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1.
The monarchy and monarchist elements have launched organized destructions
and violence in different parts of the country conspiringly not to let
the constituent assembly election to be held. So the abolition of the monarchy
and the establishment of the republic should be immediately declared from
the interim parliament. Prior to the declaration the parties including
the Nepali Congress who have not yet formally decided anything about the
republic must publicly clarify their position on monarchy.
2.
As greed upon in the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) the property of the
late King Birendra and his family and the whole property possessed by King
Gynandra in the capacity of being the king must be nationalized for which
an effective step must be taken and there should be speedy implementation.
3.
The Nepal Army kept at Narayanhiti palace until now for its security must
immediately be taken away and a simple type of security arrangement has
to be made to Gynendra and his family.
4.
All the guilty persons indicated by Rayamajhi Commission must be persecuted
as sternly as possible at the earliest even by promulgating retrospective
law.
5.
According to the spirit of the interim constitution Nepal Army must immediately
democratized by constituting a security council. The integration between
the Nepal Army and the Peoples Liberation Army has to be accelerated through
a 'special committee'.
6.
A comprehensive round table conference has to be immediately organized
to ensure the proportional representation of all classes, nationalities,
regions, Madhesis, women, Dalit and all minority communities in the constituent
assembly election.
7.
The interim government must be run according to the principle of consensus
and the common minimum programme, in stead of being run on the old way
of single party and majority.
8.
The local body has to be formed on the basis of agreement in order to ease
and simplify the election of the constituent assembly election, to ensure
the involvement of the mass of the people to the grass root level and to
accelerate the developmental works.
9.
The appointments of the ambassadors to different countries, university
executives, Human Rights Commission, the chief commissioner of Commission
for the investigation of the abuse of authority (CIAA) and its commissioners
and the organization of the high level monitoring commission must be done
by consensus.
10.
All criminals responsible for the murders after the comprehensive Peace
Accord including the criminals of Gaur Massacre must immediately be punished
as sternly as possible and appropriate compensation must be given to the
victimized families.
11.
In course of the people's war, the hostages confined in the jail cells
on Nepal and India on false allegations must all be released together and
all cases filed against the Maoist leaders and cadres must be cancelled.
12.
The families of all martyrs, who sacrificed their lives in course of the
people's war, must immediately be supported as an immediate relief of at
least hundred thousand rupees per person. All injured persons in course
of the people's war and people's movement must get all treatment from the
government.
13.
A high level probe committee must immediately be formed for finding out
the facts of all disappeared during the people's war and for the recommendation
of the legal action against those who are found guilty through the investigation.
14.
An effective and special initiation must be taken on the government level
for the correction of weakness and serious carelessness in the proper management
of the cantonments of the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
15.
The decision of interim government about providing monthly three thousand
rupees per person for the members of the PLA has not yet been implemented
and thus it must be executed without any delay.
16.
Education, health, employment and food sovereignty have been accepted as
the fundamental rights of all people in the Comprehensive Peace Accord
and in the interim constitution, so a legal and executive step must proceed
for its practical application.
17.
A high level land reform commission must immediately be formed in order
to execute provisions of the comprehensive Peace Accord regarding for the
"execution of scientific land reform program by appropriating the feudal
land ownership.
18.
The persons who made the unlimited earning of property through corruption
by holding government post for personal benefit must be rigorously persecuted,
based on the provision of the Comprehensive Peace Accord, for which the
present constitutional and governmental sectors have proved to be quite
incapable and incompetent, so a special body must be formed in order to
proceed the actions against the corrupt ones.
19.
A high level commission for the advanced restructuring of the state must
be formed in order to proceed forward towards the federal structure of
the nation with the rights of self-determination and the power of autonomy
to the nationalities and regions.
20.
The unwanted move of internal destructionist activities, inferences in
the internal affairs by the various foreign reactionary powers within the
country, must be stopped with rigorous actions and any treaties, negotiations
and understandings of long term importance, including the water resources
must not be done until the constituent assembly election is held. National
independence, sovereignty and geographical integrity must be fully safeguarded.
21.
The genuine demands of the peasants, laborers, students, public servants,
dalits, women, indigenous tribes, nationalities, Madhesis, industrialists
and businessmen and media workers and various other classes and masses
who are in the movements must be fulfilled, and a conducive environment
should be created for the involvement of all in the constituent assembly
election.
22.
The Comprehensive Peace Accord that is held between the Communist Party
of Nepal (Maoist) and the government of Nepal must be fully implemented
in practice immediately.
(Prachanda)
Chairman
CPN
(Maoist)
| Source:
CPN (M), August 2007 |
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