Kathmandu, Feb. 19 -- The Nepali Times Editorial two decades ago this week marked the 10th anniversary of the 1990 People's movement that turned Nepal from an absolute to a constitutional monarchy, unbanned political parties and unshackled the press. It is prescient that 20 years later, we are writing another Editorial marking the 25th anniversary of the start of the Maoist armed struggle.

Nothing has changed in the 20 years following that Editorial, except adding more revolutionaries-turned-greedy-leaders into positions of power. We have written about it so many times in this space over the years that we now sound like a broken record even to our own ears. But these words from 20 years ago still ring and the message is still relevant. ...