Moist closing ranks in South Asia

[Kaiser]

Maoists close ranks to make South Asia a flaming field of revolutions

Mon, 2006-09-25 17:54 By M Rama Rao reporting from India
New Delhi, 25 Sept (Asiantribune.com): Maoist of Nepal, who are now in a consolidation phase, have closed ranks with their counterparts in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan to turn ‘South Asia into a flaming field of Maoist revolutions’.
Meeting at an undisclosed location, the South Asian grouping of Maoist parties also vowed to ‘advance revolutions for the seizure of power by armed force’ though no time frame was set for ‘action’.
It was the fourth conference of the Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and Organizations of South Asia (CCOMPOSA). In a political resolution the conclave resolved to ‘deepen and extend the links between genuine Maoists of the region’.
In all, 13 parties – five each from India and Bangladesh and one each from Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Nepal were founder members of CCOMPOSA in July 2001.
The initiative for floating the group was taken by Nepal Maoists. But only nine parties attended the latest session hosted by Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).
Two original founders from Bangladesh and one from India did not attend. It is not clear why, according to a Nepali website.
Expectedly, the political resolution came down heavily on ‘expansionist India’ and ‘imperialist USA’. It accused the United States of hatching up conspiracies ‘with Indian expansionism to kill the new democratic revolution in Nepal’ but said ‘we have blocked these plans and the revolution continues, giving rise to a wider and powerful upsurge against the hated monarchy and is gaining new victories”.
The Maoists, who are known here in India as Peoples War Group or plain Naxalites, have been working along with their Nepali counterparts to develop a ‘red corridor’ from Nepal to Sri Lanka cutting through Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra, Karnataka and Kerala. According to some reports the Andhra Naxalites are in contact with the LTTE for arms procurement particularly claymore mine, and training. Chennai has emerged as an arms base in recent months for Naxalites with a ‘manufacturing unit’ located on the outskirts of the city.
That the influence of outside Maoists on Nepali Maoists is really strong became clear from a remark attributed to Dina Nath Sharma who is a member of the Maoist team of negotiators on interim government setup in the Himalayan Kingdom.
"Some of our friends in the region (other Maoist parties in SA) have opposed CPN-M's preparations to join the interim government", he told a Kathmandu daily but added "We will move ahead through consensus. This disclosure means there is headache ahead for Prime Minister Koirala.
Mr Sharma was frank enough to concede that the gaol of establishing 'the South Asian Soviet Federation something too far away’. For him, the CCOMPOSA is the first step towards that direction.
Against this backdrop, media reports about Nepali Maoists’ plans to hide their arms in India assume significance and send alarm bells for the overstretched security establishment. The Nepali Maoists have to lay down their arms and hand them over to peace monitors before joining the Koirala government and holding of elections. Prime Minister Koirala has ruled out any compromise in this regard and he is backed in his resolve by the Americans, whose envoy to Kathmandu is publicly branding the Maoists as unreliable.
It is possible that Maoists could hide some of their sophisticated arsenal in India’s border belt in Bihar, West Bengal and Uttaranchal to keep themselves ‘ready to meet any contingency’. India is worried naturally about these arms finding their way to Naxalites, who in all probability are going to be the custodians of the Nepali arms chest.
-Asian Tribune -



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[Kaiser]

This can turn out to be a real threat for the south asian nations believe it or not. Remember all it took for the Russian govt to be overthrown after WW1 was a man (Vladimir Lenin) who made a deal with a small almost unknown party to start a revolution and it actially worked to perfection