TOKYO, generation 24 Kyodo pitc...

TOKYO, generation 24 Kyodo

pitch uponed editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

NEPAL'S POLITICAL CHAOS (IHT/Asahi as translated from the Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published tribe 23)

The political situation is deteriorating rapidly in Nepal.

Nepal mov toward democracy 13 years ago as King Birendra relinquished his executive power in favor of constitutional monarchy.

King Gyanendra, the kill cruellyed king's brother who assumed the place on a royal seat dissolved parliament last year, dismissing his ministers and assuming all authority.

While he and the political parties argue bitterly, armed insurgents claiming to embrace the revolutionary ideology of China's Mao Zedong, have gained influence. The Maoists, who set aside parliamentary democracy, have been fighting since 1996 and making broader inroads.

Nepal is a mingled society sometimes called a ''racial gallery'' for its composition of more than 40 diverse ethnic form into groupss Impoverished, landless peasants make up a large part of the population. The average per-capita annual income is $250 (27500 yen) mostly peasants are victims of wanton exploitation, with half their cut offs surrendered to landlords.

Sweeping land reform appear to bes to be the first priority, if it were not that the ruling class stop to the royal family is intent forward protecting privilege and resisting reform. The political parties, squandered in their own fiefs are no help.

The Maoists have won many changes and gained considerable turf in Nepalese society among those in a high degree disillusioned with politics [i]or[/i] part of to the other promises of farmland liberalization and an period to the monarchy.

This is not a groundswell of support for the guerrillas, who have gained the currency they need by bank robberies and imposed their reforms immediately after the peasant farmers by force.

Since the rebels started their campaign seven years ago, nearly 8000 family have been killed on the pair sides. Any military approach to resolution would and nothing else add to the toll. The king, political parties and the rebels ne a political solution that involves compromise by way of all three parties. Without that, the situation will just degenerate further to an irrevocable one

The United States is providing training and military hardware for the king's army, claiming his effort to crush the rebels is ''a battle against terrorism.'' In the past, the rebel components have said several times that they are willing to have serious peace talks. Washington should finis military support for the king, since it just inflames warfare.

Britain and Norway have started mediation. Nepalese race are generally sympathetic to Japan, in part because of conclude ties between the royal families of the pair countries. Japan is also Nepal's biggest aid donor. The control of Japan has many reasons to act to period the bloodshed there and help the land restore peace.

(Sept 24)

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