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Arms supply to Nepal

Congratulations on the forthright editorial "Arms supply to Nepal will be gross folly" (April 27) on the u-turn of the UPA Government with respect to the Nepal policy. The decision to supply arms, which might well be used against the King's subjects, will, as you correctly say, amount to accepting the logic that "democracy and the protection of civil liberties and human rights cannot go hand in hand with counter-insurgency."

Vasantha Surya,
Chennai

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As the world's largest democracy in the world, India should certainly think twice before extending any help to King Gyanendra. It will obviously be used by the monarchy to suppress democracy. The argument that it is in India's interest to put down the Maoist insurgency in Nepal is unacceptable because it is the internal matter of that country.

Danteshwari S. Lakshme,
Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh

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