Message from Amnesty International USA: Join us on Thursday to say - loud and clear - "No weapons to Nepal ? NOW!" Urge U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to refrain from providing any U.S. Security Assistance to Nepal. Despite Nepal's continually poor human rights record, the United States continues to provide military aid to help the government fight a Maoist insurgency. Far from ending the conflict, however, U.S. arms and training are fueling the violence. More than 10,000 people have been killed in Nepal since 1996, and, each day, civilians face the prospect of torture, "disappearance," extrajudicial execution, abduction, arbitrary detention, rape and other abuses at the hands of government security forces and Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) insurgents. In 2002 and 2003, Nepal led the world in ?disappearances,' and there are fears that security forces have since replaced arrest and secret detention with the immediate killing of suspects. STOP ARMS TO NEPAL! PROTEST RALLY Thursday, May 26, 2005 12:00pm U.S. State Department 2201 C Street NW ? Washington, DC (Metro: Foggy Bottom) Join us now in calling on the U.S. to suspend all military aid to Nepal until all fundamental rights are respected. Questions? Call Jeremy Nelson at 202-544-0200 x 486. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA www.aiusa.org/countries/nepal