Appearently the push by Indian Maoist groups and the recent success of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), has inspired the Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist Leninist - Maoist) to make a push for people’s war in Bhutan. Of the three countries, Bhutan is the smallest, about half the size of Nepal. The Maoist in India are only fighting to control the eastern third of India at this time. It’s likely that they may not push for the whole country for many years to come, while Bhutan is so small, change there could happen quickly.
It’s hard to tell because the party does not yet have its own web site and is only now becoming known to the outside world.
From:
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/MAOIST_REVOLUTION
Birtamod, June 7th: Vikalpa led Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist Leninist - Maoist) (CPB - MLM), formed in 2001, marked the start of armed revolt against autocratic Bhutanese regime with twin blasts, one near Samtse and another near the Damchen Petroleum depot near Phuentsholing in Chukha on June 5.
"We are proud to initiate the armed people's war to eradicate the regime", quoted a release issued by party general secretary Vikalpa.
The party also confirmed the death of one of its active cadres in Chukha, declaring him the first martyr of people's war. CPB (MLM) also said that the team commander Chandra Raj Rai alias Khandu, arrested by the security, has been undergoing treatment in the Samtse General Hospital.
The police recovered leaflets and documents of CPB (MLM), and also arrested Chandra Raj Rai from the scene reported Indian media quoting Royal Bhutan Police. However, the government mouthpiece Kuelsel has not yet reported the serial blasts by cadres of CPB (MLM).
Vikalpa led CPB (MLM) started the people's war when another fraction led by Birat is agitating against third country resettlement program.
Also, from the same site:
I got my hands on one press release from the Communist Party of Bhutan – Maoist. It is dated February 02, 2008.
Here's what it says in general, with "raktim abhivadan" (red salute, I reckon)
"In the changing political scenario of Bhutan, the Communist Party of Bhutan - Maoists has also changed its strategies. CPB – Maoist, which considers all the parties against the monarchy as cohorts, has decided to take brutal actions against those parties that try to harm this party."
Then it lists out the "Present Targets for Physical Action" that are -
Block Chiefs (Gup) and their allies living on the land of refugees (in Bhutan) and ruling over the people.Government officials and Indian traders that have alliance with the state and are engaged in commission-ism.
The press release also states "the CPB Maoists has decided to take a vicious physical action against one unidentified Moto Rai of Beldangi 3 for attempting to disrupt the party's people's revolution."
I suppose that Beldang 3 means the Bhutanese refugee camp in Nepal and the party is taking in a lot of inspiration from what CPN Maoists did during the insurgency in Nepal
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The Bhutanese see, like the Nepalese, that the world ignores them and their feudal lot in life--the United Nations disregards the poorest of small Asian nations, ASEAN snubs them--they never attend nor are invited to meetings held in swank hotels in Bangkok and Singapore, like the Vietnamese Socialists or the Hun Sen government representatives of Cambodia. The result is that they have finally seen the light of day, inspired by a nearby neighbor's courage and success, and have resorted to revolution, in the effort to shake off the yoke of oppression and exploitation. In Bhuttan, just as in Nepal, Indian meddling in the regional affairs of these nations, as well as exercising an instigating influence in "Tibtetan seperatists" organisations"--such is the extent of foreign attention, and India's is wholely unwanted in all three countries! While India plays host to the Dalai Lama, and keeping their sphere of influence crippled by religious practices more relevant to the 6th Century C.E., while maintaining a cultural of internal strife amongst Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, and "untouchables" resigned to abject poverty, I have read about and seen wealthy Mumbai (Bombay) business men "marry" poor Nepalese women, offer parents there a small amount of cash (equivalent to $50-$100), promise all involved that the daughter will be well cared for, take her to Calcutta where rich Kuwaitis buy her, beat the hell out of her for pleasure--she becomes addicted to drugs, lives in abysmal conditions, becomes infected with a plethoria of illnesses and diseases, and for the 4 or 5 years of her remaining life, earns money for these wealthy Indian "businessmen" as a whore, so that some other member of their family can buy a shop in England or America, and live high on the hog in a western country--and this practise has been going on for centuries; it reflects the bigger influence of India, in relation to Nepal, Bhutan, and Tibet; it is indeed a small scale characature--this is EXACTLY how INDIA BEHAVES TOWARDS it's little satellite states, behaving as a parasite towards them, doing the very things that they blamed colonial Britain of doing, the abused is now the abuser, living at the expense of smaller nation's misery and suffering, and on the world stage, keeping these countries quiet and in a STRANGLE-HOLD, and because INDIA--or rather, BHARAT is the world's largest "democracy", gets nothing from the western likes of the President Bushes and Bill Gates of the world, but positive press, and cash down, because these men and men of their ilk have no vision, are blind to the realities hidden in the shadows, are rubes who have been so EASILY duped by men with solid GOLD temples just a stone's throw away from poverty of the most obscene variety!
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