With the smuggling in of almost 40 trucks of weapons from India, ordinary people’s concern for their life security has sharpened in Nepal. They had become quite happy when the Maoist insurgents entered the mainstream peace process about two years ago. But the status-quoist forces of Nepal have never been happy since the state restructuring that would result out of the peace process would dismantle their corrupt networks and power structures. They would do anything possible to disrupt the ongoing peace process for this particular reason. Weapons smugglers would not mind benefiting from this psychological setup of the status-quoist political forces.

Reactionary forces have reportedly killed almost 60 former insurgents since their entry into the mainstream peace process. Such murders (especially the Gaur massacre in which 28 former insurgents were massacred in cold blood on 21 March 2007.) were aimed at revoking war to ultimately reverse the process of state restructuring. But the former insurgents vowed to make ......... http://www.groundreport.com/mohannepali