Hatha Gone forever Placing Steps

The news of passing away of Sri Lankan prominent Artist Gamini Hathtettuwegama here RWI appear for as a respectation to him. His service as all rounded talented man though is one important thing, the most valuble thing is of his love for human man kind as revolutionary type person. Though there were some contraversial contraditions of his past activites, comparrision to the others he is a great man born in Sri Lankan Earth.

Mels

Here We apprer Comrade Loional Bopage's Message for considering its importance

By Lional Bopage

I was extremely sad to hear the news of the death of Comrade Haththotuwegama. Even though I have not been in regular contact with him for some time, I was more than aware of the significant role he and his group of open theatre artists have played in raising the consciousness of the ordinary people of Sri Lanka on important social issues.
He was a Sama- Samajist at the time I first met him at Richmond College in Galle. He taught me English. I remember him being an excellent orator and was extremely popular amongst us, the college students.
By the time I was released from prison in the late seventies, Comrade Gamini had already established/founded the Wayside and Open theatre Group. I had the pleasure of meeting him on numerous occasions. I also took part in one of his workshops, which helped me innumerably when I was running/a part of the Songs of Liberation.
I still have memories of the time when some of my fellow JVP comrades took part in some of his training techniques. Their mixture of enthusiasm, interest and impatience, as they gradually shed the shackles of their rigid acting styles, will always stay with me. This led us to conceive a new drama, Milana vu Malak Nove (Not a flower withered away). This drama was based on the true life story of the late comrade Premawathie Manamperi. His techniques allowed us in a 'natural' way to get to the heart of the social issues we wished to share with our audiences, without being didactic about it. Unfortunately it was banned by the ruling party of the day.
One of his enduring qualities was that he was always a straightforward and very hospitable human being who was always socially engaged with the issues of the day. Though we did not always see eye to eye on all political issues, I never doubted his sincerity and commitment to the betterment of all the human beings who lived in Sri Lanka.
His contribution in the field of culture and in particular the theatre and English Literature was immeasurable. He will leave a void in the cultural life of the island that will be hard to fill.
I will not only remember and respect his contribution to the betterment both cultural and political to the social life of the people of Sri Lanka, but on a more personal level I will never forget the warmth of his smile which not only radiated his genuine love and interest of the people around him but for all the people who inhabit Sri Lanka.
As a fellow traveler who shares his political vision, I take this opportunity to salute him and to extend my deepest sympathy to his bereaved family and friends.
Lionel Bopage

Sri Lankan Prez visit to Nepal is Contraversial

Sri Lankn president Mahinda Percy Rajapaksha has arrived for three day vist to Nepal and has met many leaders of ruling party of Nepal and UCPN(Maoist) Leader Prachanda. Rajapaksha promising to Broker Capitalist Nepal goverment to support for peace and for a political transition. What kind of support canhe be given to Nepal is the question We are asking. As a Indian agent and also a corrupted state post fudel king, he would be given advisive proposal for eliminating Nepal Maoist.

As very clever cunning jackel, he can do double side game showing his so called smile. Meeting Comrade Prachanda,he would be promisedto support for Maoist too. But This corrupted and genocided king is never not a friend of progressive poeple or for communism. Even though his meeting with Prchanda is diplomatic, we thouroughly concernhim as an enemy for Nepal Revolution.

Above article sent us by Srilankan Revolutionary is here published for Sri lankan Sinhala speaking readers and for out side readers.

Mels Macasche

Nepal Maoist leader Prachanda Fumes, Claims III Uprising Urgent

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The Chairman of the Unified Maoists’ Party Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda has said that the objective of the third peoples’ uprising was to fulfill the “unfinished” wishes of the general people.
He also claimed that the new uprising will ensure completion of the Historic Revolt initiated by the Maoists’ Party.
“Final Revolt is necessary for securing Peace and Prosperity”, Dahal told his cadres.
Dahal was speaking at a Tea Party organized to celebrate Nepal Sambat 1130 in Kathmandu by the Maoists Party.
Dahal even claimed that bids were afoot to declare emergency and dissolve the Constituent Assembly.
He said “those who had awarded the Maoists’ Party with a Terrorist Tag and had put Price on the Head of the Maoists’ leadership have been conspiring once again to declare emergency and put price tag on the Maoists’ leadership once again”.
“They are once again preparing for mass repression and dissolve the constituent assembly as per the diktats of their foreign masters”, he claimed.
“The leaders who have been rejected by the people are pushing the country towards another civil war”, Dahal revealed.
He called the fresh remarks of the Defense Minister Mrs. Bidya Bhandari favoring amendment in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement as the signal of the lurking danger.
Minister Bhandari had favored amendment in the CPA to allow recruitment in the Nepal Army.
Prachanda was also of the opinion that the present government that houses those leaders even who were ministers in the King Gyanendra appointed Cabinet was not at all a people friendly government.
The Maoists’ leaders Barsaman Pun Ananta, Hisila Yami and some other senior leaders were also present at the Tea party reception.
Perhaps Prachanda means what he says. Symptoms of chaotic days ahead.2009-10-27 10:06:00

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UN Mission in Nepal inspects Nepal Army barrack
www.chinaview.cn 2009-10-23 18:22:14

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KATHMANDU, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) along with the representatives of five member countries of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Friday inspected a Nepal Army barrack and the arsenal there in the capital Kathmandu.
According to NA Spokesperson Ramindra Chhetri, the team led by UNMIN Chief Karen Landgren visited the NA barrack at Chhauni and inspected the containers stored with the NA weapons Friday morning for half an hour.
The NA has deposited its weapons in the barrack as per the peace deal with the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN-M).
British and French Ambassadors to Nepal, deputy chiefs of mission of the American and Russian embassies in Kathmandu and first secretary at the Chinese Embassy were present during the inspection.
As the UN is going to hold a mid-term assessment of Nepal's peace process and UNMIN's work at the UNSC on Nov. 6, UNMIN is carrying out inspection of the NA barrack and UCPN-M's cantonments.
The UNMIN chief met with Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and Information and Communications Minister Shanker Pokharel on Thursday.
Landgren is leaving for the UN Headquarters on Oct. 26.
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Maoist rebels in India reject laying down arms for talks

New Delhi - Maoist militants in India have rejected the government's demand that they surrender their arms before peace talks and slammed a major offensive targeting them, news reports said Friday.
In an interview with local news channels in the eastern state of West Bengal Thursday evening, top Maoist leader, Koteshwara Rao, rejected New Delhi's condition for talks and demanded that the government pull out forces from states where Maoists were active.
Asked in what situation the Maoists would sit down for talks with the government, Rao, alias Kishanji, said, 'The first and foremost condition is that they must withdraw all forces from our areas.'
Rao said there were about 250,000 government troops in areas dominated by the Maoists and said there was 'no scope for talks' unless 600 jailed Maoist rebels were released.
'Their [the government's] condition is that Maoists should surrender their arms,' he said. 'Surrendering arms is out of the agenda. We never accepted it as part of our agenda. So we are not ready for peace talks with the government. In the name of peace talks, they declared war.'
Rao, 51, is the deputy leader of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), which is spearheading the left-wing insurgency in 20 of India's 28 states.
The Maoists claim their armed rebellion is aimed at securing the rights of tribal people and the rural poor and usually targets security personnel and government installations.
Rao is the most wanted man in West Bengal and claimed in June to have 'liberated' Lalgarh, a main town in the state's Midnapore district.
He said he supports Islamic militancy in the belief that the Islamic upsurge is anti-United States and anti-imperialist in nature.
Reacting to the Maoist leader's comments, Federal Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram reiterated the government demand.
'The Maoists have to abjure violence, and then we can work out a process by which we will advise the state governments to talk to them,' he told reporters in New Delhi.
The Indian government has lately displayed a more muscular approach to tackling left-wing extremism, which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently described as the greatest internal security threat for India.
At least 2,671 people - including civilians, security personnel and rebels - have been killed in incidents related to Maoist violence in India since 2006.
The Home Ministry is in the process of launching Operation Greenhunt, India's biggest-military offensive against the Maoists, across the country.
According to some media reports, the campaign, details of which are largely secret, has already been launched in a few states. The offensive is described by officials as a 'long, multiphase, strategic war' against Maoist rebels.
About 75,000 federal paramilitary officers along with personnel drawn from the state police were expected to carry out the offensive, the IANS news agency reported.
Six districts in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa and Maharashtra, states that have been worst-hit by the Maoist insurgency, would be the initial focus of the operations.

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Indian Maoist leader threatens 'tornado of violence'
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NEW DELHI — India's Maoist rebel leader has vowed to unleash a "tornado" of violence if the government goes ahead with a planned large-scale offensive against his insurgent forces.
In an interview published in the weekly magazine Open, Mupalla Laxman Rao, better known as Ganapathi, said any offensive might secure some early gains but insisted that the rebels would eventually triumph.
"Although the enemy may achieve a few successes in the initial phase, we shall certainly overcome and defeat the government offensive," Ganapathi was quoted as saying in the magazine's latest edition.
Open said the interview was conducted at an undisclosed jungle location in eastern India, part of a vast, Maoist-affected region known as the "red corridor".
The corridor includes areas of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal states, and runs south through Orissa, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.
The states' police and paramilitary forces will be in the frontline of the planned anti-rebel offensive, which official sources say is likely to begin in November and involve hundreds of thousands of security personnel.
Ganapathi, a 59-year-old former school teacher, said the operation would provoke a mass response.
"People will rise up like a tornado under our party's leadership to wipe out the reactionary blood-sucking vampires ruling our country," he said, branding Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P. Chidambaram "terrorists".
Singh has described the Maoist insurgency, which began as a peasant uprising in 1967, as the single greatest threat to India's internal security.
The Maoists say they are fighting for the rights of the rural poor and local tribes, but officials accuse them of using intimidation and extortion to collect money and to control impoverished villagers.
"This region is the wealthiest as well as the most underdeveloped part of our country," said Ganapathi, who is one of the most wanted men in India and is known to change his location frequently.
"These (government) sharks want to loot the wealth and drive the tribal people of the region to further impoverishment," he said.
Maoist-linked violence has already claimed more than 600 lives this year with rebels staging a series of raids against police targets, despite some successes by security forces in arresting or killing a number of senior cadres.
"It is true that our party has suffered some serious leadership losses, but we were able to inflict serious losses on the enemy too," the rebel leader said.
"Overall, our party's influence has grown stronger and it has now come to be recognised as the only genuine alternative before the people," he added.
Last month, the prime minister rebuked regional police chiefs for failing to stem the insurgency, but analysts say the real problem has been the lack of a cohesive strategy.
Although the federal government has ruled out the use of the military in the anti-Maoist offensive, it has made it clear that the operation will be coordinated from New Delhi.
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Arundhati Roy urges Centre to drop armed action against Maoist
by ANI on October 19, 2009

New Delhi, Oct 19 (ANI): Noted Human Rights activist and Booker prize winner, Arundhati Roy, on Monday accused the Union Government for harbouring vested interests behind its armed offensive against the Maoists.


Addressing media in the national capital, Roy urged the government not to take armed action against the red ultras.
“They want to clear these forests and they want to open it up for the companies. They have signed hundreds of MoU’S and in places like Jharkhand, not one of them is being actualised. So, there is this kind of desperation that’s what’s going on, you know. Otherwise, why should it be that after 60 years you point a gun at the tribal’s head and say I have to give you development,” said Roy.

She also accused the Government of suppressing the voice against it, by labelling it as Maoist.
Roy further said that the Government is exaggerating the threat as an excuse to deal with everybody in an undemocratic manner.
“They actually would like to exaggerate the threat in order to define everybody with the same brush and then deal with everybody in a totally undemocratic military way. So, this is what’s happening and obviously people are taking positions along these lines,” she said.
The insurgents, who say they are waging war on behalf of the poor and the landless against the state, have taken effective control of large swathes of the countryside, scaring off potential investors while in control of land rich in minerals.
Hundreds are killed in Maoist violence each year, as forces clash with rebels and civilians get caught in the crossfire. They also extort money from businesses and industry, and have opposed construction of a steel plant in West Bengal. (ANI)

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