Re Rajendra Dahal's 'Incommunicado' (# 216). Time has come to review the performance of all stakeholders who are based on terms of reference given by the king but paid by us Nepalis to manage the country properly. Two years ago King Gyanendra took over people's power by saying that he was rescuing the country from chaos. Major parliamentary forces will be completing two years of agitation against the October Fourth move by promising their voters a lasting solution. Only the UML, which joined the king's government to work for a resolution of the conflict is thinking about it. For all other parties it is all about retrieving power and privilege. The Maoists maintain they are the only ones who can set things right, but after ten years they are nowhere nearer their goal, and in the process have destroyed, brutalised and militarised the country. The Nepali people have heard it all, they have endured their malgovernance, and have trusted them with being sincere about peace only to be let down over and over again. Isn't it time to go for international mediation to start a peace process?

Meena Poudel,
Newcastle, UK