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The Maoists in Nepal have launched a vicious anti-India propaganda campaign through a film, Dasgaja, being screened in about half a dozen theatres in Kathmandu. Dasgaja or 'Ten Yards' has vignettes of a border dispute and portrays India as a hegemonic power and bully.
Sample some scenes from the film:
Scene A: An Indian official walks into the office of the head of Nepal's border survey team and offers him a briefcase filled with currency and tells him that it was for his daughter's education and the border inspection duties should be left to Indian officials. The Indian official then goes on to say, "You know that you can't do a thing without our approval. You can't even appoint a priest in your own temple without our endorsement.''
Scene B: A Nepali worker, working in a restaurant in India is slapped and his nationality is abused when inadvertently he spills water over an Indian customer.
Scene C: India's Home Minister speaking on phone to his Nepalese counterpart, asks him not to persist with his demand of fresh inspection of the Indo-Nepal border, failing which, the Minister threatens that the government of Nepal would be toppled.
Scene D: Scenes of atrocities by Indian border guards and the hero of the film leading a group of armed men and women, and removing the border pillar wrongly erected by India.
Another movie based on an old Indo-Nepal dispute, directed by Uddham Abidits, is to be released soon. The area portrayed, Kalapani, is located on the India's western border with Nepal. The dispute over the area is due to the differences between the two countries over the origin of the Kali River. Nepal's claims on Kalapani, is based on the contention that the river to the west of Kali is the main Kali River, whereas India claims that the river to the east of Kalapani is the main Kali River.
About four years back, there was another documentary Greater Nepal made by one Manoj Pandit, which called for restoration of large parts of West Bengal, the entire Sikkim, parts of Uttrakhand and Himachal Pardesh to Nepal, over which he averred that Nepal had historical claims.
The Maoist cadres have also been defacing foundation stones and insulting the Indian Tri-Colour, at projects and programmes assisted by India. Showing of black flags to the Indian Ambassador during his movement in Kathmandu, has become a regular affair.
Earlier, in October 2010, the Ministry of External Affairs had summoned Nepal's Ambassador to India, Rukma Shumsher Rana to seek explanation over the misbehaviour of Maoist cadres towards the Indian Ambassador to Nepal, Rakesh Sood. Some Maoist cadres on 6 October 2010 had greeted the Ambassador with black flags and one of them hurled a shoe at a team of visiting Indian Embassy officials.
In fact, India's Foreign Minister, SM Krishna, during his recent visit to Kathmandu in April 2011, expressed 'serious concern' at the attacks on the Indian Ambassador. Her also met various Maoist leaders including Parchanda and took up the issue of the ongoing anti-India campaign. Some top leaders were present at a formal dinner meeting in the Indian Embassy. Despite assurances, the anti-India campaign by the Maoists has not abated. Rather, it has become more shrill, virulent and violent.
The Maoists have been trying to overplay and even fabricate issues to create animosity between India and Nepal. The anti-India campaign by the Maoists in Nepal is becoming increasingly fierce and vicious, as the Maoist leadership feels that it is India, which is the stumbling block in their bid to capture power. That the Maoists are being prodded by China is all too obvious. The border issues between India and Nepal has hardly generated any bitterness. The issue of Indian priests in the 'Pashupati Temple' in Kathmandu is a revered historical tradition signifying the deep religious and cultural links between the two countries.
The anti-India campaign of the Maoists is a well-deliberated strategy and is in consonance with the 'Fourth Phase' of the Maoist agitation, announced in January 2010, in the Central Committee meeting. Originally, this phase was to be driven by the agenda of 'Civilian Supremacy', but was suspended in favour of an anti-India campaign because the Maoists feel that it was at the behest of India that the Maoist government fell following its aborted bid to remove the Nepal Army Chief in May 2009.
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The Nepal Army, the Maoist leadership feels is the only robust barrier in its way to establishing its one-party revolutionary regime. In its anti-India campaign, and in keeping with the sensitivities of Indian Maoists, Prachanda while embarking on the Fourth Phase, proffered: "Dialogues and struggle with Indian state, and solidarity with Indian people."
In the same Central Committee meeting, a decision was taken to send five top Maoist leaders to five disputed border locations i.e. Kalapani, Susta, Pashupati Nagar, Laxmanpur, and Khurdalautan. There were also plans to publicly burn copies of the Indo-Nepal Treaty 1950, Sugauli Treaty 1816, and other bilateral agreements. Demonstrations near the Indian Embassy were also part of the plan.
The Maoists viewed preceding Prime Minister Madhav Nepal as a stooge of India. So did China. During his visit to China in Decemeber 2009, the Chinese authorities were high on assurances and rhetoric but low on yield. This is mainly ascribed to the Chinese perception that the Madhav Nepal government was backed by India.
No sooner Jhalanath Khanal was elected as PM in February 2011, after 17 attempts in seven months; two very significant and high level Chinese delegations visited Nepal, with economic and military agendas respectively. In February, during the visit of Vice Minister of Commerce Fu Ziyang, China and Nepal reached an agreement on details of a new economic package. In the following month, General Chen Bingde, head of China's PLA visited Kathmandu and announced US $ 20 million aid assistance, non-lethal in import.
Consequent to the Indo-US nuclear deal, the tenor and import of China's strategic thrust in Nepal has moved away from Tibet-centricity to encompass South Asia as such. Since then Nepal has become a geopolitical arena of intense rivalry between China and India. The fall of the Maoist government totally belied China's strategic calculations. Ever since then it has been on an overdrive to cobble a pro-China and anti-India government in Nepal.
The political dynamics in Nepal has lessons for India particularly in the context of the Left parties and organisations. From Nepal's example, it is beyond doubt that the divergence between the Maoists and mainstream Communists is manipulated by China and other Leftist benefactors. The convergence is also manipulated.
Maoists infiltrate other parties as well or float parties and organisations ostensibly hostile but inherently sympathetic as in the case of Upendra Yadav, the founder of the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF). Jhalanath Khanal, though a CPN (UML) leader, has been known for his affinity to the Maoists. He had been lobbying in China and India for removal of his predecessor Madhav Nepal, a member of his own party.
The Maoists have never been so close to the capture of power and setting a totalitarian state. The resolution in the recent CCOMPOSA meet in India, categorically states that the Maoist's revolution is at a critical stage and the entire world is watching the outcome. The transition of Maoists in Nepal has been from criminals, to revolutionaries, to political activists, and to partners in government. The next scenario would be a complete Maoist takeover.
Courtesy: Indian Defence Review
RSN Singh is a former military intelligence officer who later served in the Research and Analysis Wing, or R&AW. The author of two books: Asian Strategic and Military Perspective and Military Factor in Pakistan, he is also Associate Editor, Indian Defence Review.
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Maoists unleash anti-India campaign in Nepal
So is China's influence in Nepal working?
Is seems that Nepalese communists are anti-india.
It is also known that Nepal also has territorial dispute(s) with India.
Is it possible that the Anti-Indian government in Nepal might use this card?
India may have three enemies:
(1) Pakistan
(2) China
(3) Perhaps to a lesser extent, Nepal...
Whos next...???
The Maoists in Nepal have launched a vicious anti-India propaganda campaign through a film, Dasgaja, being screened in about half a dozen theatres in Kathmandu. Dasgaja or 'Ten Yards' has vignettes of a border dispute and portrays India as a hegemonic power and bully.
Sample some scenes from the film:
Scene A: An Indian official walks into the office of the head of Nepal's border survey team and offers him a briefcase filled with currency and tells him that it was for his daughter's education and the border inspection duties should be left to Indian officials. The Indian official then goes on to say, "You know that you can't do a thing without our approval. You can't even appoint a priest in your own temple without our endorsement.''
Scene B: A Nepali worker, working in a restaurant in India is slapped and his nationality is abused when inadvertently he spills water over an Indian customer.
Scene C: India's Home Minister speaking on phone to his Nepalese counterpart, asks him not to persist with his demand of fresh inspection of the Indo-Nepal border, failing which, the Minister threatens that the government of Nepal would be toppled.
Scene D: Scenes of atrocities by Indian border guards and the hero of the film leading a group of armed men and women, and removing the border pillar wrongly erected by India.
Another movie based on an old Indo-Nepal dispute, directed by Uddham Abidits, is to be released soon. The area portrayed, Kalapani, is located on the India's western border with Nepal. The dispute over the area is due to the differences between the two countries over the origin of the Kali River. Nepal's claims on Kalapani, is based on the contention that the river to the west of Kali is the main Kali River, whereas India claims that the river to the east of Kalapani is the main Kali River.
About four years back, there was another documentary Greater Nepal made by one Manoj Pandit, which called for restoration of large parts of West Bengal, the entire Sikkim, parts of Uttrakhand and Himachal Pardesh to Nepal, over which he averred that Nepal had historical claims.
The Maoist cadres have also been defacing foundation stones and insulting the Indian Tri-Colour, at projects and programmes assisted by India. Showing of black flags to the Indian Ambassador during his movement in Kathmandu, has become a regular affair.
Earlier, in October 2010, the Ministry of External Affairs had summoned Nepal's Ambassador to India, Rukma Shumsher Rana to seek explanation over the misbehaviour of Maoist cadres towards the Indian Ambassador to Nepal, Rakesh Sood. Some Maoist cadres on 6 October 2010 had greeted the Ambassador with black flags and one of them hurled a shoe at a team of visiting Indian Embassy officials.
In fact, India's Foreign Minister, SM Krishna, during his recent visit to Kathmandu in April 2011, expressed 'serious concern' at the attacks on the Indian Ambassador. Her also met various Maoist leaders including Parchanda and took up the issue of the ongoing anti-India campaign. Some top leaders were present at a formal dinner meeting in the Indian Embassy. Despite assurances, the anti-India campaign by the Maoists has not abated. Rather, it has become more shrill, virulent and violent.
The Maoists have been trying to overplay and even fabricate issues to create animosity between India and Nepal. The anti-India campaign by the Maoists in Nepal is becoming increasingly fierce and vicious, as the Maoist leadership feels that it is India, which is the stumbling block in their bid to capture power. That the Maoists are being prodded by China is all too obvious. The border issues between India and Nepal has hardly generated any bitterness. The issue of Indian priests in the 'Pashupati Temple' in Kathmandu is a revered historical tradition signifying the deep religious and cultural links between the two countries.
The anti-India campaign of the Maoists is a well-deliberated strategy and is in consonance with the 'Fourth Phase' of the Maoist agitation, announced in January 2010, in the Central Committee meeting. Originally, this phase was to be driven by the agenda of 'Civilian Supremacy', but was suspended in favour of an anti-India campaign because the Maoists feel that it was at the behest of India that the Maoist government fell following its aborted bid to remove the Nepal Army Chief in May 2009.
Editor's Pick
Evolution of Indian Military Concepts
The Insoluble Equation: Indo-Pak Relations
NE Insurgency: The Religious Dimension
Indian Army: The blunted sword
Shortage of Officers in the Services
The Nepal Army, the Maoist leadership feels is the only robust barrier in its way to establishing its one-party revolutionary regime. In its anti-India campaign, and in keeping with the sensitivities of Indian Maoists, Prachanda while embarking on the Fourth Phase, proffered: "Dialogues and struggle with Indian state, and solidarity with Indian people."
In the same Central Committee meeting, a decision was taken to send five top Maoist leaders to five disputed border locations i.e. Kalapani, Susta, Pashupati Nagar, Laxmanpur, and Khurdalautan. There were also plans to publicly burn copies of the Indo-Nepal Treaty 1950, Sugauli Treaty 1816, and other bilateral agreements. Demonstrations near the Indian Embassy were also part of the plan.
The Maoists viewed preceding Prime Minister Madhav Nepal as a stooge of India. So did China. During his visit to China in Decemeber 2009, the Chinese authorities were high on assurances and rhetoric but low on yield. This is mainly ascribed to the Chinese perception that the Madhav Nepal government was backed by India.
No sooner Jhalanath Khanal was elected as PM in February 2011, after 17 attempts in seven months; two very significant and high level Chinese delegations visited Nepal, with economic and military agendas respectively. In February, during the visit of Vice Minister of Commerce Fu Ziyang, China and Nepal reached an agreement on details of a new economic package. In the following month, General Chen Bingde, head of China's PLA visited Kathmandu and announced US $ 20 million aid assistance, non-lethal in import.
Consequent to the Indo-US nuclear deal, the tenor and import of China's strategic thrust in Nepal has moved away from Tibet-centricity to encompass South Asia as such. Since then Nepal has become a geopolitical arena of intense rivalry between China and India. The fall of the Maoist government totally belied China's strategic calculations. Ever since then it has been on an overdrive to cobble a pro-China and anti-India government in Nepal.
The political dynamics in Nepal has lessons for India particularly in the context of the Left parties and organisations. From Nepal's example, it is beyond doubt that the divergence between the Maoists and mainstream Communists is manipulated by China and other Leftist benefactors. The convergence is also manipulated.
Maoists infiltrate other parties as well or float parties and organisations ostensibly hostile but inherently sympathetic as in the case of Upendra Yadav, the founder of the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF). Jhalanath Khanal, though a CPN (UML) leader, has been known for his affinity to the Maoists. He had been lobbying in China and India for removal of his predecessor Madhav Nepal, a member of his own party.
The Maoists have never been so close to the capture of power and setting a totalitarian state. The resolution in the recent CCOMPOSA meet in India, categorically states that the Maoist's revolution is at a critical stage and the entire world is watching the outcome. The transition of Maoists in Nepal has been from criminals, to revolutionaries, to political activists, and to partners in government. The next scenario would be a complete Maoist takeover.
Courtesy: Indian Defence Review
RSN Singh is a former military intelligence officer who later served in the Research and Analysis Wing, or R&AW. The author of two books: Asian Strategic and Military Perspective and Military Factor in Pakistan, he is also Associate Editor, Indian Defence Review.
http://im.sify.com/index2/images/oct2010/RSN-Singh.jpg
Maoists unleash anti-India campaign in Nepal
So is China's influence in Nepal working?
Is seems that Nepalese communists are anti-india.
It is also known that Nepal also has territorial dispute(s) with India.
Is it possible that the Anti-Indian government in Nepal might use this card?
India may have three enemies:
(1) Pakistan
(2) China
(3) Perhaps to a lesser extent, Nepal...
Whos next...???
