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A ten-year pity glimpse of Nepalese Civil War
Raju Yonjan
ELT Scholar, Kathmandu University
It was raining when I was looking outside from the window which is located in the western side of my room. It could have been monsoon season. I was in the room- I had no duty, no visit, nothing was there because the earth was tackling with the new virus called COVID-19- that really sensitized me of old times; revived me the crucial incident that had happened to me. It was a ten-year Civil War.
Every civil war is disastrous and agonizing which I witnessed was not merely a war; it was like yamraj is inviting. Being a son of royal army (Dad: Padam Bahadur Yonjanl)- holidays were offering me to write something about my pity experience of that particular event. I knew from my mother that I was born in the year when Civil War kicked off that aroused me to scribble the scary memory in my copy. When I had started writing I had asked my mother about Civil War. She still says “I was unhappy, including grandfather and grandmother. Maoist often did use to threaten me telling to resign your husband from royal army, otherwise we have to execute your husband. In spite of the fact that the main target was the Nepal Police, the Maoist had also started to attack to Royal Army later on. In the meantime, Nepali Congress was ruling the country. They had endeavored to persuade them to bring on negotiation but they were stiff on their demand. We’re a family of five. My mother was only the person who was afraid terribly as her husband was in the battle fighting from national side. When the instant government got that the Nepal Police couldn’t handle the situation, they had formed the Armed Police Force (Dangga), who was believed to have been stronger than the Nepal Police.
In addition, we always had to heed the news of dying people from the both side; Royal Army and Maoist on Radio. Radio did use to broadcast; 3 died from Royal Army side and 6 died from Maoist side every day that used to tense my mother. Actually, I was rather small and siblings too, were smaller. Can we really feel her pain of the time when her husband (my dad) was in the war fighting with own Nepali brothers? Didn’t she feel that her husband could die! Of course, she felt. Nevertheless, it was an obligatory of hers to shut her mouth up. We could be executed if we had gone against them. We were told to say our father had been died. It was our obligation to say so. Didn’t it really hurt her? Obviously it hurt. Thousands of people died in the war. Many women had to remove their Sindhur- had become widow. Can you really speculate how they really felt? We can never feel their pettiness as it is unhealable. It really touches me somewhere inside even today when I commemorate the incident which was being narrated by the mother. All women of that time were just holding on to listen for their husbands' death in the war on radio. I still remember the incident which was happened in Banke nearby my village; Phuljor, Sarlahi. It was around 10 am; I hurt the rattling sound of gun. Later I knew that battle between two parties had taken place. We were reported that three Maoists were killed.
As far as I'm concerned, Maoists were set off the war with the aim to create a new Nepal, however, even the victimized people in the war have not got justice yet; a new Nepal is on a distance. The war has never benefited to proletarians, rather it has always profited to top-dogs. Moreover, there is no free health service, education and just which their major agendas were during the war. It’s been seventeen years long since ceasefire; but Nepalese are deprive of seeing a remarkable change in the country. Instead, it has develop an instable government that keeps on changing time and again and perversion of corruption in politics. It's a bizarre of us!
To sum up, Civil War is really terrible in the sense that it loses the lives of many brothers and sisters even though it was done in the name of change. Maoist had set off the war to bring a grand change in the country but we’ve not seen it so far. Rather many war victimized people have not got what they should get They're still waiting for justice of their sons, husbands and brothers who had died in the war.
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