Mr. Babu Ram Bhattarai a.k.a. Lal Dhoj

Dear Mr. Bhattarai,

We, Nepalese, propelled by conscience, summoned to duty by our beloved country, are gathered here in New York City to express our outrage against your visit to the UN. This is an insult not only to our people’s intelligence, but also to the conscience of the entire world.

Mr. Bhattarai, in the first place, you do not represent our beautiful country, you do not represent the great people of Nepal and you do not represent our values. Secondly, you do not deserve to stand at the podium of the world’s biggest citadel of peace. You embody violence and terror, the very antithesis of the peace on which the UN was founded and has stood for more than sixty years. You have not renounced violence. You have not surrendered your lethal weapons. Your marauding thugs-for-hire terrorize, torment and taunt the people day in and day out all over our country.

Due to your brutal assault on Nepal, for too long now, we have lived without peace, order, security and any semblance of stability. The country is reeling in utter chaos. In order to divide and conquer, you have turned Nepal into a fertile ground for ethnic conflict. We are careening towards a hellish cycle of ethnic violence and never-ending conflicts. Because of your policies and actions, a chasm of distrust and animosity has developed between our myriad ethnic groups, replacing the understanding and harmony that had developed over centuries.

You have an insatiable appetite for death and destruction. For the last fifteen years, you have been living on a daily diet of the Nepalese people’s blood and treasure. Soon after declaring yourself prime minister, you declared that “you have no magic bullets” to solve our colossal problems created by your own Maoists criminal enterprise. You had no trouble finding bullets to put through people’s heads, but you are shamelessly telling us now that you cannot solve the problems in which you played such a big part in creating.

Mr. Lal Dhoj, allow us to speak plain truth. You are one of the people who is responsible for the massacre of more than fifteen thousand people and the displacement of millions of others by driving them away from their homes and villages. Countless others have been forced to leave the country just to survive. You have destroyed billions of rupees worth of national property and hundreds of thousands of private property. Your barbarism simply saw no limit. You were also involved in the desecrations of many temples, schools and national monuments.

But, your heinous crimes did not end there. You have confiscated thousands of people’s land. You were involved in robbing banks and people throughout Nepal at gun point. You kidnapped young and underage sons and daughters of very poor and naïve parents and trained them to kill and to be killed. Thus, with violence and terror, you quickly turned our panoramic country into a gruesome killing field.

As a consequence, you have brought our scintillatingly beautiful nation to the brink of ruin. It will take generations to recover from the bloodbath and the ashes and rubble you have created. The lack and loss of people’s loved-ones and the unrelenting pain associated with it will endure for generations to come. When future generation read the catalogue of unspeakable horror and tragedy you and your thuggish friends have created in Nepal, it is bound to send a chill down their spines.

You seized power at gun point. As a result, you destroyed our toddling democracy and our precious 1990’s democratic Constitution. Since you had no belief in democracy, you did not give it a chance to take a baby step. You took advantage of a difficult period of transition to democracy. Our democracy was restored in Nepal after thirty years of hard-fought often in bitter political struggles by the people. It was largely a non-violent and peaceful revolution championed by our great leaders and statesmen. Tragically, you ended it with blazing guns and exploding grenades, creating rivers of blood down the mountains, through the valleys and on to the plains.

You won the so-called constitution assembly elections with firepower. Now you have anointed yourself as Prime Minister through muscle, money and manipulation. Your own Maoists criminal gang leader, Prachanda, has declared you to be an Indian agent. The rest of the people in Nepal have no apparent reason to suddenly trust a tyrant like you.

Dr. Death, just before you left Nepal, a devastating earthquake hit Nepal. You did not care to learn about the loss of lives and property in the country but instead left for New York in a rush to give a farcical speech on the world stage. If we needed any further proof of your moral depravity, this is it.

Now, given your appalling background and history, is it possible that you have a positive message to convey to the world? The answer is a resounding “No.”  Your presence will only serve to lower Nepal’s prestige and standing in the world.

Our glorious history, our independent national identity, our mosaic cultures and the spirits of our brave people are as grand as the majestic Himalayas. We defeated the mightiest power of imperialism, and we will defeat you as well – it is only a matter of time. You may live under the illusion that you have defeated the Nepalese people. In truth, you have captured power, but not our hearts. You may occupy the center stage in Singh Durbar, but not in our heartland.

In the end, you will lose and we will win. You love power and we love our country. You believe in violence, hate and retribution. We rest our faith on peace, justice and reconciliation. You believe in a Marxist totalitarian system. We believe in democracy, human rights and peaceful process of debate and dialogue to settle differences amongst ourselves. We believe in freeing people and you believe in making slaves. You believe in making decisions for people, we allow people to make their own determinations. We have an abiding faith in a united people and a unified Nepal. You want to divide Nepal and keep our people separate from each other. We respect our fellow human countrymen’s “life, liberty and pursuit of happiness” as much as we love our own. You have proved a total disregard for these quintessential human values in the most inhuman way.

You and your goons took advantage of our innocent, naïve, gentle and peaceful people and a weak state. You destroyed not only so many precious lives but their families’ livelihood as well. There are not too many people in Nepal who were untouched by your besetting sins of violence and murder, both physically and emotionally.

You have put our country in a very difficult situation. Our people may not be articulate, but they understand and feel as much as anyone else. They are God-fearing and deeply spiritual people. They are endowed with a deep sense of right and wrong. We will right the wrong in Nepal. We will never allow you to destroy what is good about our country or let it die. And we will make certain that you will stand at the altar of justice for the monstrous crimes you have committed. We will ensure that justice will roll down the mountain like a mighty river. At long last, Nepal will finally be free from the Maoists repression and cruelty. We will make sure that democracy, peace and progress reign supreme in Nepal.

Sincerely,

Vijay K. Sigdel

Bishal Shah

Bandana Koirala

Punam Pande

Krishna Raj Pande

Kunti Thapa

Binita Nakarmi

Kuber Thapa

Kamala Prasai

James Lama

Tshering Gurung

Amrita Rana

Rupa Rana

Sirjana Thapa

Sept 24, 2011