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Nepal Finance Minister: $40 a month to live

A strange process is unfolding in Nepal, the kind of thing we Amerikkkans have a hard time imagining. The imperialists managed to get 30,852 members of a rebel army into concentration camps for the ostensible purpose of conducting elections in mid-June. The imperialists have to be pretty happy with that result.

Yet we read strange reports in the press. MIM does not take sides on what people in Nepal should do, other than work toward the goal of a socialist republic and get rid of remnants of feudalism. Nonetheless, we are just doing the math on what the Finance Minister recently said, which is that $5 million is enough to feed, clothe and provide daily essentials to 30,852 people for four months. It seems that works out to $40 per month per persyn sitting around in a concentration camp.(1) Pardon us Amerikkkans, but what?

"'The money is enough to feed and maintain the Maoist combatants for months,' Mahat said. 'We have provided the basic facilities in the seven main camps, but work is progressing in the satellite camps.'"(1)

The leader of party calling itself "Maoist" that MIM disagrees with says rebels should not leave the concentration camps, because improvements are coming. Yet even he said the government had "starved" his army.(2)

We are not urging people to leave the camps, as a few hundred did before returning, because that is way beyond our level of knowledge, and MIM does not involve itself on the ground in the Third World, but we still want to know how this is possibly going to work. We find it a lesson to our imperialist parasites--that a Third World finance minister would suggest that $40 a month is enough for daily life in a camp and that would even be considered enough to keep a civil war from breaking out.

At the same time, we read reports that the Prachanda Path people are not in the cabinet but that Prachanda remains confident they will be. "Guns don't kill, people do" would seem to apply with the rebel army in camp. Yet still we hear talk in the press contrary.

On February 23rd, Associated Press said: "The rebels joined a temporary parliament in January, and are set to join an interim government that is to conduct this year's elections."(3)

The U.$. ambassador just said: "'I welcome Mr. Prachanda's coming into mainstream politics. I want to shake hands with Mr. Prachanda before leaving Nepal,' he said."(4)

Crucial comments from the king and the army seem to have spurred the "seven parties" of Nepal's old parliament and Prachanda to unite to announce a republic sooner than expected. Amerikans were found spreading rumors about weapons in India and fomenting the national question in both India and Nepal. Exactly how the weapons in India were supposed to matter while the rebels were in camps in Nepal was not explained by rumor-spreaders, but it would not be the first time that Amerikkkans for "gun control" have run amok.

The Prachanda Path differs from Marxism-Leninism-Maoism in that it says that communists can vie for power through an election.

Notes:
1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6435011,00.html
2. http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=101635
3. http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7598_1935571,000500020003.htm
4. http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7006555532