Posted by: paramendra February 8, 2005
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The SEBS thread on the topic:
- http://www.sebsonline.org/forum/forum_view.aspx?F=1&T=60355
- http://hindustantimes.com
Guess who?s backing Nepal coup? VHP ............
- http://news.ft.com/cms/s/1fb46b9c-7a1a-11d9-ba2a-00000e2511c8.html
The rally will be the first independent mass gathering
- http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=64339
Maoists here in India too are planning demonstrations in five cities on February 13 ....will hold rallies and demonstration in Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chandigarh.
And as the Maoists prepare to organise solidarity demonstrations, the trickle of Nepalese politicians into the country continues. Rajendra Mahto, general secretary of Nepal Sadbhavana Party (A), today met the media in the Capital and appealed to his ??countrymen and political forces to unitedly launch a struggle against the authoritarian regime??. He did not condemn the Maoists but hoped that they would be a part of the peaceful struggle against the tyranny of King Gyanendra.
- http://news.ft.com/cms/s/afef2baa-78af-11d9-9961-00000e2511c8.html
The reckless monarch ....
- http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7568920
Sunning himself on his roof, guarded by heavily armed police in plain clothes or blue camouflage, the leader of the largest party in the ousted four-party coalition, Madhav Kumar Nepal, cheerily tells a journalist: "I am under house arrest."
Close by, at a busy roundabout in central Kathmandu, bored police in riot gear fiddle with their lathis, or bamboo sticks, adjust their protective gear and ask a foreigner: "Can you get me a security job in London? How much do they pay?"
- http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/09/international/asia/09nepal.html
.. a group of nine United Nations human rights officials criticized the king ....
- http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/131613/1/.html
Nepalese leaders could be detained for up to three months .... army's spokesman warned of a long and bloody battle ....Gurung estimated the strength of the Maoists, who have been fighting to install a communist republic in Nepal since 1996, at "anything from 6,000 to 7,000" hardcore combatants, a militia of 20,000 to 25,000 and about 100,000 sympathisers. ...."Any time we kill a combatant then his rank is filled by another one ... a militia maybe and then a sympathiser is trained to become a militia." ....Right now, the general added, the rebels' military wing was stronger than their political faction which is why they had to be engaged in battle. ....
- http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HRW/ad3dc83127451441572c35312a82758d.htm
..a campaign of arbitrary arrests, censorship, and general repression...the security forces, which have a history of widespread and serious violations of human rights.... "Our chief concern is that some of those being arrested may never be seen again....Among the immediate targets for arrest were the political leaders upon whom the King expressed scorn in his televised address....twenty-seven national political leaders are either under house arrest or in detention, including every prime minister since 1990......Virtually the entire human rights activist community has been forced into hiding....At a meeting with newspaper editors, the King's secretary reportedly stated that he would be unable to "help" if the military decided to "disappear" journalists or editors "for a few hours," a disturbing statement in a country that according to the U.N. had the highest number of reported new "disappearances" in the world in both 2003 and 2004.....The BBC's Nepali news service has been forced to suspend its broadcasts....Human Rights Watch is deeply concerned that abuses by the security forces will increase dramatically in the absence of international and local monitoring mechanisms, aggravating Nepal's already severe human rights crisis...."It is crucial for the international community to demonstrate that it will not lightly accept the King's abusive actions," said Adams. "If they act with a common purpose, the King and the army will have little choice but to reverse course.