The green roots of red rebellion: Environmental degradation and the rise of the Maoist movement in Nepal (original) (raw)

No end to Nepal's Maoist rebellion

Focaal, 2005

Since 1996, Nepal has increasingly been drawn into a violent confl ict between Maoist rebels and the state, leading to a severe crisis. Th ousands of civilians have been killed, and most people in the countryside live in constant fear. Economic hardship has seriously increased. Despite repeated eff orts to bring the parties together for peace talks, there is little hope that the violent situation will be resolved in the near future. Th is article analyzes the complex causes of the emergence of the Maoist insurrection and its success, and sketches the problems impeding a democratic solution to the current situation.

People's war: threat to Nepal's national security

2004

This paper shows how the Maoist insurgency or "People's War," based on the philosophy of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism-Prachanda Path, which started eight years ago as an innocuous law and order problem, has now turned into a critical threat to Nepal's National Security; in other words the three elements--ends, ways, and means--of Nepalese National Security Strategy faces a grave danger. The Maoists with political and military fronts, in achieving their objectives of establishing a People's Democratic Republic of Nepal, have undermined Nepalese government by establishing parallel village, district, and autonomous region people's governments, and have plunged the country into a civil war. In yet another front, Maoists are drafting a new "Constitution of People's Republic of Nepal 2004" to challenge the existing "Constitution of Nepal 1990." This means that the essence of the present Constitution,

Maoist Movement in Nepal: A Long Run and Large Scale Perspective.pdf

In 2006AD there was a massive changes; millions of people took to the streets calling for democracy and freedom. The 2006 Maoist movement is a one of the biggest movements in Nepal as known as a kind of revolution. It's known as political achievement against the direct power of king Gyanedra Shah who had an absolute power to control or rule for all people of Nepal. There have been various causes of that movement. There was hierarchy relationship of lower class and upper class, oppressed groups, peasant, state structure, bureaucracy and others. The Maoist movement of Nepal has been a product of its socio-economic and political context. This paper tries to analysis and explores the Maoist movement trough the large-scale and long run perspective. According to this perspective, there was various causes changed in both state institutions and social structures and its outcomes is still showing respectively, many outcomes have to be come. Past conflicts and institutional structures have long term effects and are of critical importance for later development and have large scale impact in structure. Large scale history defines its scope on major structures or international factors, defines the outcomes to be studied in larger terms; and the causes for these outcomes are determined by large structures, international ideology, psychology and others.