Today there is no school, private or public, because a criminal murdered a jeweler.
Is it just because I am an American that I can’t find any reason in this? I tried to find reason, but the more I thought, the more I was driven to hysterics.
I asked myself questions like:
What syndicate is behind these forced closings?
Why are students and ordinary civilians made to suffer?
Are they suggesting they want all the civilians in Lalitpur (including my three and four year old children) to go on a manhunt with the time they have off from school and work? Isn’t it the job of the police department to root out the criminal?
This jewelers group wants to draw attention to the crime and find the criminal involved. OK I understand that, but it’s going to take the police more than two days to achieve this. In the event there is not a police investigation the way to get proper recognition (by a group that is equipped to do something about it) is to march down to the police headquarters and demand an investigation, not persecute every citizen in Lalitpur District.
John
Lele-3
from ktmktm
On 12/6/11 2:24 PM, Matt wrote:.
It also creates a dangerous incentive for schoolchildren to murder
jewellers.
From Swayambill:
Because you're an American, you don't know what it's like to live
under a completely unresponsive government composed of venal
professional politicians. In this country, the only way to get the
attention of the government is to declare and enforce a
'bandha' which stops all commercial activity and traffic. The
result is severe hardship to the population at large, many of them
surviving on a daily wage, and some response from the powers that
be. In this case, the government promised to investigate the claims
of fraud against a minister. Yes, the bandhas are sometimes unfair
and absurd, but this is a tactic of a people reduced to absurdity by
their rulers. Short of rioting in the streets, this is what they've
got to do to be heard. The bandha is a travesty of the general
strike, a traditional weapon of the working classes. In it large
sections of the population joined voluntarily in a strike action out
of solidarity with the strikers and their objectives. Here, the
motive behind 'joining' the general shut-down is a fear of
repercussions from the enforcers of the bandha.
That be as it may, because you're an American you might come to know
what it means to be completely exasperated with a government that is
only responsive to the the demands of the wealthiest 1% of its
people. Look at the 'Occupy Wall Street, America' movement, and
it's reverberations around the world.
And then:
"Because you're an American, you don't know what it's like to live under a completely unresponsive government composed of venal professional politicians."
As an American I'd like to disagree with that statement, it sums up rather well my experience back home.
Bandha isn’t a solution to these type of cases. Police investigation will be the solution. People get killed and die in many circumstances which is sad but creating more problems such as bandhas don’t help them. I know people here block the streets demonstrating even when a bike run over a chiken. People ask for compensation for their chicken , But people don’t think why they let go their chicken the streets. This is just an example. There are a lot of things that we Nepalese need to learn before we do something.