For months I've had to read daily, never-ending stories about the Maoists: what they should do, should not do, what they want to do, don't want to do, and just what they are doing and not doing.

I think the reality is that the supremos and super-supremos in Kathmandu lost control over their cadres throughout the country a long time ago. Does anybody believe that the 'People's Subjugating Army' will really lay down arms? Never, because if they do, they'll immediately become poor helpless souls, beaten up or killed by their former victims.

That's why they will keep doing the things they've learnt over the last ten years, murdering, kidnapping, stealing, extortion, vandalism, and suppression.

Bishnu Ram Joshi,
Bansbari