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A sharp reaction has
risen on the arrest of Comrade Mohan Baidhya, known as Comrade Kiran, in India
while he was receiving medical treatment. Amongst the Nepalese masses a huge
public anger has developed against the Indian regime for the arrest of a veteran
and popular leader who has persistently been active for four decades for the
revolution in Nepal. Voices have been raised in the national and international
level for the protection of life of Comrade Kiran and his release.
Having arrested
comrade Kiran, a standing committee member of the Party, while he was receiving
treatment, the Indian regime has not only supported the military regime of
Nepal, it has also exhibited its inhumanity. Arresting an old, sick and veteran
political personality and taking him to a torture chamber merely manifests the
cruelty of the Indian regime. The Maoist leaders and cadres have been fighting
in Nepal to establish a People’s Republic by overthrowing a military and feudal
regime. At this time the Maoist struggle is not targeted against India or
against any foreign forces. The Nepalese people have the right to determine what
kind of system the Nepalese people want to establish. But why are the Indian and
American administrations intervening against the just struggle of the Nepalese
people? This question has now been raised vehemently.
Indian Interest:
It is believed that
the Indian regime, which has already grabbed Koshi, Gandaki and Mahakali, wants
to grab Karnali (a big water resource of Nepal) by utilising the opportunity of
the existence of a weak feudal military dictator in the Nepal regime of Nepal. A
conspiracy seems to have been hatched that the Indian regime would help to
clampdown the Maoist revolution and the Nepalese feudal military, in response,
would handover Nepalese rivers to the Indian regime. Therefore, the Indian
regime has increased in logistical assistance to the Nepalese regime against the
people’s war including accelerating the process of arresting the Maoist leaders
on Indian soil and extraditing them.
Arrest Of Comrade
Kiran Is Not New:
Though the arrest of
Comrade Kiran on Indian soil is the highest rank, the arrest of Maoist leaders
in India is not new. Just after the breakdown of the second round of
negotiation, the Political Bureau member of the Communist Party of Nepal
(Maoist) Comrade Gaurav has been imprisoned in the local jail of Chennai of
India, having arrested him in a case of holding a so-called false passport; and
another political bureau member, comrade Matrika Prasad Yadav, and an
alternative central committee member, comrade Suresh Ale Magar, were arrested in
Delhi and extradited to Nepal overnight. Comrade Kiran has also been arrested in
this series and locked in custody.
A Sharp Reaction
Within The Maoists:
There has been a
sharp reaction developed within the Maoist revolutionaries against the Indian
regime while it has brought a series of arrests and extraditions of the Maoist
revolutionaries in India and arrested comrade Kiran recently. Chairman of the
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Prachanda, has issued a statement, protesting
the arrest of comrade Kiran, the member of the standing committee of the party,
and demanded his respectful release. It seems that the lower ranks of the Maoist
cadres have pent off their anger by burning 18 tankers under an Indian signboard
in Kailali, as a retaliation of the arrest of their beloved leader by the Indian
regime. If the Indian regime does not release him respectfully, it seems that it
will only increase bitterness against the Indian regime. It is sure that the
bitterness of the Maoists, who have already captured 80 percent of territory,
will land the Indian regime in difficulty. The Maoists have been reiterating
that they will keep a good relation with all neighbouring countries after
capturing political power in Nepal. By supporting the hated feudal military
dictator of Nepal and by irritating a rising power that has the support of the
vast majority of the broad masses, the Indian regime will not achieve a positive
result. No force on the earth will allow the hated military feudal regime of
Nepal to survive.
Initiative for his
life security and release:
After the arrest of
Comrade Kiran, the standing Committee member of the Communist Party of Nepal
(Maoist), voices have been raised all around the world for his life, security
and release. A representative has visited the Indian embassy of Brussels this
week demanding his release. There was a mass rally along with placards before
the delegation had visited the embassy. In spite of sharp opposition of the
arrest of Comrade Kiran, the Indian regime has put him into its torture chamber.
The local judge had ordered the police to put him in their custody for some
days. It is known that comrade Kiran has rejected giving any hearing to these
authorities.
Arrest Of Comrade Kiran Is The Result
Of Coalition:
"The arrest of
Comrade Baidhya is not an occasional and simple incident but a product of
intrigue and exchange of the Indian and Nepalese feudal rulers against Nepalese
rivers and natural resources." The Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal
(Maoist), Comrade Prachanda, has issued a statement immediately after the arrest
of Comrade Kiran, on March 31, which reads as: "The news of the Indian
police’s arrest of Comrade Mohan Baidhya, a veteran member of the Standing
Committee of our glorious Party, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), as well
as the in-charge of the eastern central command, has stunned the whole Party.
Comrade Mohan Baidhya has been staying in Siliguri, West Bengal of India for
some time for cataract treatment. The Indian police also arrested Narayan Bikram
Pradhan who was assisting in his treatment".
Hence a pre-planned
conspiracy is going on, to shadow the main political issue by imposing a false
charge about weapons against Comrade Mohan Baidhya. The arrest of Comrade
Baidhya is not an occasional and simple incident but a product of intrigue and
exchange of the Indian and Nepalese feudal rulers against Nepalese rivers and
natural resources. Our Party strongly condemns such pre-planned conspiracies and
the arrest of Comrade Mohan Baidhya and demands a respectful political conduct
against an old and veteran political personality.
Any disrespectful
conduct against Comrade Mohan Baidhya, a theoretician on philosophy and
aesthetics and who has persistently been struggling for 40 years for the freedom
of the Nepalese people from the clutches of feudalism and imperialism, will not
be tolerable not only for the Nepalese people but also the just loving people of
India and of the world. Our party humbly appeals to all the human right
organization and institution, intellectual personalities, pro-people political
forces and broad mass of the Nepal and India and the world to raise their voices
for the security, respect and release of Com. Kiren.
[Issued by the CPN
(Maoist)]
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