Nepal - Madhesi People must Decide their Definite Identity
There is no doubt the erstwhile insurgents, the Maoists, who have with all good intentions entered the peace politics still need to rectify their behavior to win popular support, but that does not at all justify the way, Madhesi people are allowing the Bihari-Type criminals to emerge as politicians who would only turn them into the citizen of the 'Nepali Bihar' in the long run.
Refer to the recent Gaur Carnage that resulted from the clashes between Madhesi Janadhikar Forum & the Maoists' Madhesi Mukti Morcha. Although human rights actictivists' opposition to out-law any political organization sounds reasonable, their own investigation and report reveals that the MJF, both Janatrantrik Mukti Morchas and other insurgents in the terai do not deserve to be recognized as political organizations who have not observed the minimal human rights.
That the MJF is also now a terrorist group has even been accepted by their splintered students union. Forget Upendra Yadav, he's an out-and-out criminal now; and Sitanandan Roy's hasty statement that the people snatched away the weapons brought by the Maoists and used them in defense has downright degraded his stature as the only reasonable politician in the MJF. Does he think that common people are so heinous that they even do not hesitate to rape en-masse in public, which clearly seems to be an act of commuanal hatred? Still more importantly, what sort of precedent this incident is going to set-up for the deeply fragmented madhesi community itself?
Even more suprizing is that the madhesi intellentsia too seems to be taking the incident as a justifiable retaliation to the police and maoists' atrocities.
What the Nepal Sadbhavana Party with very intelligent and qualified leaders like Hridyesh Tripathi has to say about this incident, which is still in the seven-party alliance and, at the same time, ignited the so-called madhesi movement by blowing up the Nepalgunj incident out of proportion? And where do the Madhesi politicians stand in other national parties who are heightening their personal stature within their own respective parties ?
Like it or not, Madhesi people must be clear on what message do they want to send to other oppressed, ethnic, and indigenous groups in Nepal. If they seriously believe that there rights can not be established in the Nepali nationhood, they better demand for their own separate state peacefully.
