Glimpse of Nepal

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Bill Marsh

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Just received this email from my friend Steve in Kathmandu, Nepal. Though short, it speaks to the problems in that small country.

"Good Morning Bill,
Yes, I'm back in Kathmandu now. Got here last Wednesday night. It's good to be back as 2 months on the road in India is tiring.

The situation here is not good really, but as usual it is same old, same old here in the capital. The latest development is a Maoist road blockade of Kathmandu... that will mean petrol, cooking gas and vegetables will be getting scarce and expensive.

The most irksome thing at the moment however is the electricity rationing. There are scheduled rolling power cuts for 5 hours each day. I heard it will go up to 7 hours soon.

Nepal is very lovable as a geographical location and for the people, but it is certainly among the most poorly managed nations in the world. It's like a parody of itself... except the politicos are serious. Pity. "
 
I am sure that will mean many more delays in Khuk shipments and probably manufacturing. I sincerly hope the troubles in this great little country are soon over.

Dick:(
 
I've read a bit on Nepal since coming here...hard to believe but to me it seems they're still a developing country,and it's gonna take a few more shot's to get it right.
 
Nepal is a very small nation but has a surface land mass that rivals the USA in size. Steve figures that if the land was flattened out and all the surfaces of the mountains and valleys made into plains, Nepal would be about as big as the USA.

Wish that those Maoist insurgents would go somwhere else. Real PITA! Apparently they call for strikes ofen, Anyone who stays open whe they say close is in deep trouble.
 
i agree, the thing i fear most is that with the help of the Maoist rebels Nepal will be occupied by China just like they did with Tibet.

The Chinese governement is using Tibet as a dumping ground for nuclear waist and is depriving the Tibetan soil from it's natural richness.

Nepal and Bhutan could face the same danger: mass deportation of indigineous people , replacing the Himalayan culture with "Chinese" culture, forced immigration with Han Chinese people.

This wasn't a factor in the past due to the inaccesability of Nepal from the Chinese side, but the Chinese are constructing roads and railways on a high pace in the Tibetan highlands.

I hope Tibet will regain it's freedom and i also hope that the Himalayan country's squeezed between India and China will keep on keeping their own culture and independance.
 
Mongo-man said:
i agree, the thing i fear most is that with the help of the Maoist rebels Nepal will be occupied by China just like they did with Tibet.

The Chinese governement is using Tibet as a dumping ground for nuclear waist and is depriving the Tibetan soil from it's natural richness.

Nepal and Bhutan could face the same danger: mass deportation of indigineous people , replacing the Himalayan culture with "Chinese" culture, forced immigration with Han Chinese people.

This wasn't a factor in the past due to the inaccesability of Nepal from the Chinese side, but the Chinese are constructing roads and railways on a high pace in the Tibetan highlands.

I hope Tibet will regain it's freedom and i also hope that the Himalayan country's squeezed between India and China will keep on keeping their own culture and independance.
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Don't really know a lot about this situation regarding China, but what you say makes sense.

The Maoist roadblocks and compulsary srikes have been going on for a while, This is notinh new. Nothing that our kamis have not been working around already. Just a PITA.
 
I always thought that the Communist/Maoist revolutionary doctrine was logically flawed. In order to bring the class conflict to the breaking point, they will make economic conditions as bad as they can for the worker on purpose. Yeah, great idea and noble ideology there!

Chris
 
Yeah, I agree with you there, Chris.

But it is important to differentiate betweeen Mao and Marx in that respect: Marx asserted that capitalism would do the savaging of the working class... that is would eventually get bad enough that anything would be an attractive alternative: enter the revolution.

Not saying he's right. Just saying there IS a difference.

What is happening in Nepal right now is just atrocious, from what I understand, on both sides of the conflict. I really ache for the people caught in the middle..
 
brokenhallelujah said:
Yeah, I agree with you there, Chris.

But it is important to differentiate betweeen Mao and Marx in that respect: Marx asserted that capitalism would do the savaging of the working class... that is would eventually get bad enough that anything would be an attractive alternative: enter the revolution.
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Ain't it ironic that there has been unrest in China over being left out. From WaPo:

The swift sequence of decisions reflected the depth of concern in the party and government as farmers outraged by land grabs and pollution increasingly rise up in violent protests that senior officials have said pose a threat to stability and continued economic growth. The Public Security Ministry estimated the number of riots and demonstrations at 87,000 during 2005, up more than 6 percent from 2004 and quadruple what it was a decade ago.

The violence is in part a reaction to an economic boom that has produced 9 percent annual growth in China but benefited mainly city dwellers.

What about the hollow dwellers?
 
hollowdweller said:
Ain't it ironic that there has been unrest in China over being left out.

The violence is in part a reaction to an economic boom that has produced 9 percent annual growth in China but benefited mainly city dwellers.[/B]

What about the hollow dwellers?
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LOL!

Well, I don't know what your mainland Chinese counterpart would resemble... Might collect 19th century Arkansas toothpicks?

But I have watched with a lot of interest the pronounced level of resistance taking place in China recently. I am not sure how the theorists of the international worker's revolt would have described this, 'cause, uh, didn't China already have one of those? Hmm... Little Red what???

I just hope the situation in Nepal is handled with some delicacy and graciousness when one of them gets the decisive upper hand.
 
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