National Liberation Movement For Civil Rights
Introduction: Namaste! To all my fellow citizens who are concerned and assembled here, to empower the civil rights movement, through the joint collaboration of the National Liberation Movement.
I would also like to commend the foreign delegation, trying to comprehend the intrinsic demands of the marginalized communities, who comprise 74% of the Nepali population.
Politics: The underlying truth of the failure of the 8 parties is the failure of the existing government to deliver a system that adheres to the social justice and upliftment of the marginalized population. It is transparent to all Nepalese that without addressing the issues, the fact remains troubled. The demands put forward by the marginalized groups and communities are not political issues of little insignificance. They are intelligent facets of an organic society, demanding better solutions to hold a stressed nation on the verge of collapse. The demands are as much of a fact as food is to hunger, as water is to thirst and survival is to dignity. To decode the human facts is like oppressing the wind. If you oppress the wind, the trees shall seethe.
Positives: To be part of the social change is to be part of the social justice, by condemning the incompetence of those who hold power and who should empower change. To believe in the will to right the wrongs of human inequality, injustice and pathetic under representation of the 74% majority is to cooperate with nation building. To ignore the rightful demands of the marginalized and infringed groups is to support the illiteracy and poverty in Nepal , because literacy and economic benefits are the only facts that are streamlined to the privileged minority.
Donor affliction: All the experts and goodwill institutions, whether it is the UN or an acclaimed INGO, should make the right intervention if intervention is necessary at all. You cannot harvest wheat in the desert, if the sand cannot hold water to germinate the seeds. You cannot import democracy in Nepal without transforming the social changes, if the existing system perpetuates social segregation at all levels of governance.
Personal: What is frightening to me is the freak development that is becoming a larger truth of our Nepali lives and which we can hardly grasp the positives of development.
The fundamental question in my mind as it stands today is: what political sense is a minority more legitimate than the majority?
If so- can the 74% of the excluded majority be an intrinsic component in Nepali democracy?
Autonomous Federalism: Nature decided that we are diverse and our diversity decides that by sharing equally the resources and possibilities, we may be able to live in peace and harmony as is possible in the human context. The geography and demographic reality respects the rights of the 59-103 diverse, human cultural species, who have homed here for generations. As the centralized system of 238 years has diminished the existence of diversity, autonomous federation is the only alternative to improve the development of the intrinsic bond between man and his land of reference.
Proportional Representation: To sustain the dignity of the diverse peoples and to make all Nepalese proud of a national unity- one must have creative alternatives to the fast crumbling, dysfunctional minority rule. We need new, dynamic leaderships who understand the ethics of diversity.
Plea: My sincere plea to all donor agencies is, when you help feed a system, whose credibility is the systematic efficiency in streamlining discrimination, corruption and impunity; you are helping to defeat the purpose that is close to the morals of your services here. Be an activist in your respective missions. This is the only possible way to create a balanced world around you.
Activist: Only activists can bring the right social changes, because an activist does not act against his conscience and the human conscience, interestingly has no border.
Message: Nepal should never fail as a nation because it was never given a chance to envision a country which should be sustained by the representation of all.
The demands remain true but the fact is, that we should unify and come together and act responsible for the greater aspirations of the Nepali people. This first joint collaboration of the diverse groups gives me hope that there is light at the end of the tunnel. May we all trust and prosper together to build Namuna Nepal .
Om Shanti!
Shakun Sherchand Leslie
18th-Nov-07
Note:
This is a Well wishing Speech Delevered at a
Greater National Political Conference
For National Liberation Movement in Nepal
Organized by
Federal Democratic National Forum
Federal Limbuwan State Council
Tamangsaling Autonomous State Council
Madheshee People’s Right Forum, Nepal and
United Tharu National Front
On 18th November 2007
At Staff College Jawalakhel Lalitpur, Nepal
