Women in Nepal's Civil War w/ Hisila Yami

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we are joined by Hisila Yami to talk about The People's War in Nepal, and the role of women in it. Hisila Yami was a leader in The People's War, a three times minister of Nepal, a former member of the Constituent Assembly, and the author of People's War and Women's Liberation in Nepal. She can be followed on twitter @HisilaPost.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Van Boo?
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0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:14.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.2	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history,
0:34.3	and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm your host,
0:39.5	Henry Hockamacki, joined by my co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the
0:44.5	School of Religion at Queens University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you?
0:49.0	I'm well. Thanks, Henry. And Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast.
0:56.0	Hello, Brett. How are you doing?
0:57.4	Hello, I'm doing good.
0:59.5	Yeah, so we've got a pretty early recording time today because we have a guest from a little bit of a different time zone than we live.
1:07.7	And a rather distinguished guest, today our guest is going to be Hissila Yami, who is the former president of the All-Napal Women's Association
1:16.6	Revolutionary Group, former minister of physical planning and works, former minister for tourism
1:22.2	and civil aviation, former member of the Constituent Assembly, and former member of the
1:26.7	Politburo of the Communist Party of Nepal Maoist, as well as a current member of the Constituent Assembly and former member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Nepal Maoist,
1:29.2	as well as a current member of the Janada Samaj Body Party and the author of the book that we read in preparation for this interview,
1:36.9	People's War and Women's Liberation in Nepal.
1:40.9	So the conversation that we're going to have is going to be really interesting in a topic that I think that most of the listeners are not particularly aware of, which is the civil war in Nepal.
1:52.2	So Nepal for a long time was a monarchy.
1:58.2	And beginning in about the 1990s, so 1990s specifically, there was sort of an uprising against
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