http://beta.thehindu.com/news/international/article260328.ece
This will likely be my last post for quite some time. I’ve accepted a contract with an international human rights organization, and it would likely be at odds with the purposes of the organization to continue blogging about politics.
Both major news websites in Nepal seem to down. Likely due to the strain put [...]
One would think that in the midst of nationwide protests conducted under the auspice of upholding “Civilian Supremacy” the Nepal Army would show more tact than to flagrantly disregard civilian authority by refusing a request from the police.
It would seem that the army anticipates little threat from a movement centered around what may have [...]
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Maoists forcefully shut down all transport and business in Nepal today, in retaliation for an incident in Kailiki, a district in the far western Terai. On Friday, police had used deadly force in the removal of Maoist aligned landless squatters from forest land. At least four were killed.
Small bands of Maoists carrying sticks roamed the [...]
Thousands of Maoists held a torch procession tonight in preparation for a nationwide Banda (closure) tomorrow. The action was called in retaliation of an incident in Kailali district on Friday. Police had used deadly force in removing thousands of Maoist aligned landless squatters from forest land
http://www.ekantipur.com/the-kathmandu-post/2009/12/04/Features/Communes-on-the-horizon/2732/
Two articles, one by Dinesh Wagle from Kantipur and one by Arundhati Roy. It’s amazing that to me that the Indian government thinks this is going to work.
India’s Maoist War
Instead of eradicating poverty, the current Indian establishment has, it seems, decided to eradicate the poor from society.
By Dinesh Wagle, November 1, 2009
Things [...]
A year ago I said this:
“The Parliament is going to need to acknowledge this reality rather quickly. The Maoists are not going to give up their arms before they are included in the government, and when they do give up their arms it will be because their army has been incorporated into the state. Calls [...]
I was about to write an opinion that the MJF should not be banned. Forcing an organization like this underground might only make matters worse. Now I’m not so sure.
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Hired criminals did it, say rights activists
Himalayan News Service
Kathmandu, March 22:
Rights activists and civil society members, who visited Gaur today, said people were killed [...]
I finally found a computer in Thamel with photo editing software.
Maoist Trade Union protests in Thamel, Kathmandu against the industrialist Banda.
A Maoist Safe House north east of Thamel. There were sand bags with guards but no guns.
More from the Newari rally:
Yesterday I tried to get permission from the Maoists to interview the 4th division in the Cantonment site. The office I had the contact number for was moving the day I was there 2 months ago, so I assumed it wouldn’t work. Asking around Thamel brought me to what looked like a safe [...]