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Female journalist stabbed to death in Nepal 3 hours ago KATHMANDU (AFP) â€” A female journalist who wrote about women's rights and criticised political leaders has been stabbed to death in southern Nepal, officials and colleagues said Monday. The region where she was murdered, the Terai plains, has seen sporadic violence since 2006 when the Maoists ended their civil war before winning elections last year. "Uma Singh was attacked by around 15 armed people who stormed into her rented apartment Sunday evening and stabbed her," said Shambhu Koirala, a local official from Sarlahi, 90 kilometres (56 miles) southeast of Kathmandu. Dozens of armed groups claiming to fight for increased regional autonomy have emerged in southern Nepal in recent years, with scores of people killed. Singh, 24, worked for a local daily newspaper and radio station and her editor told AFP he believed people angered by her coverage could have been responsible for her death. "Recently she wrote articles criticising the dowry system, and she has also written about the involvement of political leaders in the ongoing Terai unrest," said Brij Kumar Yadav, editor of Janakpur Today. "She was a courageous journalist, and this brutal killing shows that journalists in Nepal face tremendous threats," her editor said. Excluding Singh, four journalists have been killed in Nepal since 2007 according to the New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch

peacetime · Jan 12, 2009 7:51 AM · 35,829 views

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peacetime · Jan 14, 2009 6:44 AM

AND MAOISTS JOKE ABOUT IT Kings still active in country: Minister Bhusal Kantipur Report MORANG, Jan 14 - Minister for General Administration Pampha Bhusal Wednesday said that things could not be done in the general administration as expected because there are many ‘kings’ at present also. “Though the country has been republican, in many bodies of the state there are vestiges of former King Gyandendra,” said she. Speaking at a press meet organised by the Revolutionary Journalists Association Morang Chapter today, Minister Bhusal said that because of the difficulties in the implementation of the law, it has been difficult to work. The minister further charged that the ones one could not take up the change have been trying to “muddle the water” in one way or the other, and added, “The assassination of Janakpur-based woman journalist Uma Singh is the recent instance of this.”

MN_Nepali · Jan 14, 2009 10:33 AM

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU ARE FACED WITH CRISIS WHEN YOUR OWN PEOPLE ARE INVOLED KNEE DEEP IN IT ? DENY !!! DENY!!!!! DENY!!!!! NEXT STEP FIND AN ESCAPE GOAT, IN THIS CASE ---> LAMEASS GYANEY. HA HA HA  IF THAT DUN WORK, FIND ANOTHER ESCAPE GOAT, NEXT IN LINE THE CONGRESS AND THE REST OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES. BUT WHEN THE SHIT HITS THE FAN, AND PUSH COMES TO SHOVE TO THERE WILL BE ANOTHER UPRISING FROM THE NEPALI JANTA JUST LIKE THE PREVIOUS ONES.  EVERY DOG WILL HAVE ITS DAY, ITS JUST A MATTER OF TIME.  KATTI MATRAI DHAATNEY ???  EK DIN NA EK DIN SABAI KO JUDGEMENT DAY AUCHA.

BathroomCoffee · Jan 14, 2009 10:56 AM

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