End-of-ceasefire declaration by CPN (Maoists), 2 January 2006 - unofficial translation

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Unofficial translation of the end-of-ceasefire declaration by the CPN(Maoist):

Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) Central Committee

Press Release

The period of ceasefire (three months plus a one month extension) by our party is at an end. Because it was a responsible step toward a peaceful and progressive political resolution to the civil war, including a commitment to multiparty democracy, the ceasefire was widely welcomed and supported by democratic and pro-peace forces at home and abroad. We wish to express our party’s debt of gratitude to all who supported it. During the ceasefire period a twelve-point accord relating to peace and democracy movements was reached between our party and the coalition of seven parliamentary parties, and that accord has met with public approval. In this period also, our party has had extremely positive interactions, including the conclusion of several agreements, with various international organizations and forces, including the United Nations, regarding our understanding of and commitment to democracy and peace.

As a result of the new situation described above there have been urgings from many quarters, at home and abroad, for the autocratic royal power to move to the side of peace and democracy, and to give a positive response to the ceasefire. Instead, displaying its autocratic leanings and towering feudal arrogance, the royal power remained fixated on continuing its military terrorism against the people. During the three month ceasefire the royal army captured dozens of unarmed workers from Palpa, Morang, and other areas of the country, and ruthlessly murdered them in custody. Most recently, during the extended ceasefire period our party’s popular leader Comrade Kimbahadur Thapa (Sunil) along with others was killed by air attack. During the last month of the ceasefire the royal army has given ever more blatant demonstrations of its fascist character, from the murders it committed in Nagarkot, to the current cowardly state terrorism against the people of Rolpa under cover of a “military operation”. Looting of shops, setting fire to houses, and other jungley actions are ongoing. Moreover, the royal army has already openly pursued its strategy of surrounding the units of the People’s Army, which are in a defensive posture as part of the ceasefire, and attacking them from both ground and air throughout the country.

These ground realities have made it clear to us that we are compelled to break our ceasefire and go on the offensive, both for the sake of securing the people’s peace and democracy against the feudal autocracy, and for the self-defense of the People’s Army. We have a deep understanding of and respect for the calls by the United Nations and the European Union to extend the ceasefire. Similarly we understand and respect the calls for an extension by pro-peace organizations within the country, including the formal appeal issued by the National Convention of the Nepal Congress (Democratic), a member of the seven-party coalition. However, although we too wish for an extension of the ceasefire, the recent fascist activities of the royal army have made it impossible. We urge all concerned to take very seriously the reality that a ceasefire extension would, under the circumstances, be tantamount to self-betrayal, and to vocally protest this situation. Together with this appeal, our party announces an end to the current ceasefire.

We wish to make clear that the coming military actions will be targeted only against the autocratic royal power. From the immediate point of view, military actions will hit at the feudal autocracy by focusing on the royal army and its informers as they go about staging farcical so-called municipal elections. We also wish to reiterate our commitment to giving all possible assistance to the peaceful movement of the seven-party coalition and to continued progress following the 12 point understanding between the coalition and our party. We wish to make clear that our party remains absolutely ready to declare a ceasefire and support a peaceful political outlet at any point when the following process can be confirmed: a national political meeting or round-table meeting to establish an interim government and a process for making the people sovereign by means of the election of a constituent assembly.

But so long as the terrorist tendencies of the autocratic feudal elements like [King] Gyanendra and [Crown Prince] Paras and their armed gangs – who broke the previous ceasefire by the murders of Doramba, and the current ceasefire by the operations in Rolpa – remain unchanged, we remain committed to fight to the last for Nepal and the Nepali people. In the current environment, which is showing that the Nepali people’s liberation is impossible without taking up arms against the arms of the feudal autocracy, there is no alternative but to create a great storm from the peaceful and armed movements.

We strongly appeal to the Nepali people to unite in tossing off the yoke of feudal autocratic monarchy once and for all, for the sake of democracy, peace, and progress. At this time the paramount human right of the Nepali people is the right to revolt against feudal oppression. We call on the United Nations, the international community and the peoples of the world to respect and nurture this, our right.

{Date: 18 Paush, 2062 (2 January, 2006)

Prachanda Chairman Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)

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