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American Revolution more bloody:

Nepal anti-monarchist struggle nothing extraordinary

Coverage of Nepal reached the front pages of the imperialist media briefly, less than a day as news spin goes. 367 stories as of April 3 on Google mention that 13,000 died in 10 years of armed rebellion, and since most of those were Amerikan stories by Associated Press, they blamed those deaths on the so-called Maoists. Typical was the Sydney Morning Herald that proclaimed the Australians' recognition of the interim government:

The formation of an interim government in Nepal that includes the country's former Maoist guerillas is a positive step towards lasting peace, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says.

. . .

The once-feared Maoist guerillas signed a peace deal in November with the government, ending their bloody revolt against the monarchy that killed more than 13,000 people.

The 13,000 dead are also the justification the U.S. Government uses for calling the Prachanda Path people (ex-so- called-Maoists) "terrorists."

Perhaps 50,000 American, British and German soldiers died in the American Revolutionary War.(2) The fighting lasted from 1775 to 1781. Hence, we can say that in six years, the American Revolution probably killed more people than the anti-monarchist war in Nepal did in 10 years.

Even that is an overstatement of the Nepal violence. By 1790, the U.S. population was 3.9 million.(3) According to the CIA, the Nepal population is 28 million.(4)

Hence, if we count just the American soldiers, 25,000 died, about twice as many despite there being one-seventh the population or less during the Revolution compared with Nepal. In other words, the American Revolution was more than 10 times bloody per persyn than the armed rebellion by Prachandaists in Nepal.

When they want to, Amerikans can get serious and think through what they are saying. We see how they look at baseball, hockey and basketball statistics. Nor is the phenomenon confined to the intellectuals and middle-classes. Military recruiters that MIM reported on the past are telling some inner city kids that their chances of being murdered are lower in Iraq than in the city they live.(5)

Now when we read the Nepali press, every beating and every other crime is politicized because of the environment in Nepal. Yet even during the 10 years of armed struggle, the violence rate was actually lower than the ordinary murder rate in the united $tates. That's right dear MIM readers: the ordinary u.$. murder rate is higher than the death rate of Nepal's civil war that may have just ended. In the years 1995 to 2005, the U.$. murder rate ranged from 5.5 to 8.2 per 100,000 people per year.(6) 1300 Nepali people killed per year among 28 million (and that's accepting all the blame for the deaths on the anti-monarchists) works out to less than 5 per 100,000 people.

Yet what we hear from the United $tates still is knee-jerk anti-communism:

The U.S. has yet to lift its designation of the CPN (Maoist) as a terrorist organization. Ambassador James Moriarty told Nepal Television March 26 the U.S. and other governments are concerned about continued violence by rebels.(7)
Such rhetoric cannot be taken seriously except by Fox News watchers. In actual fact, the U.$. relationship to the Prachadaists is more complicated.

Lately it seems the murder victims are all Prachandaists who partially disarmed. There was the Gaur massacre, which was the highest death toll of recent memory. Another so-called Maoist was just killed April 2.(8) The Nepali population is young and highly politicized at the moment, but it is highly unlikely that Nepal will match the U.$. murder rate without returning to all-out civil war.

Notes:
1. http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Aust-welcomes-Nepal-interim- govt/2007/04/02/1175366159594.html
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War#Casualties
3. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h980.html
4. https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/print/np.html
5. http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/agitation/draft/draftupdate07112004.html
6. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=169&scid=12
7. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=alkzIG_lPjho&refer=asia
8. http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=105503