Kathmandu, Nepal. 2/11/2009.
Members of the UCPN(Maoist) and their supporters, including Central Committee member Hisila Yami danced and chanted slogans in front of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City Office today, continuing a nation wide protest campaign started on Sunday. Nepal Army members drilled on their training grounds just a few meters away.
The stated objectives of the program [...]
Some well connected Maoist supporters are indicating the Maoists are really going to make a go of it this time. I can tell you this torch rally was convincing in that they can still get their supporters out on the street. Most people here will tell you that the other parties are not capable of [...]
Yikes, These protests are starting tomorrow. It should prove interesting. I have some other issues to deal with, but I’ll try and get a camera out there.
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Situation Update: 88
By Bishnu Pathak, PhD
and Devendra Uprety
Peace, justice and freedom must be major components of any future security in Nepal. However, Nepal’s transition is deepening in crisis due to the growing ranks of rebel forces, particularly in the Tarai-Madhes. While the State fails to deliver security to the ordinary people, particularly in countryside, [...]
I originally posted this article on United We Blog, but the site was hacked and my post disappeared shortly thereafter. However, it was apparently also chosen for the Demotix widget and appeared in websites for the Himalayan times and the London Telegraph as well as the websites outlined here:
By Neil Horning
On the way to [...]
This throughly researched researched article provides sober analysis of the implications of the Nepali conflict from the perspective of the US military.
by Major Timothy R. Kreuttner, Small Wars Journal
The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal and US COIN Doctrine (Full PDF Article)
Since the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), the US [...]
Nepal’s Future: In Whose Hands?
Asia Report N°173
13 August 2009
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Nepal’s peace process is in danger of collapse. The fall of the Maoist-led government, a mess largely of the Maoists’ own making, was a symptom of the deeper malaise underlying the political settlement. Consensus has steadily given way to a polarisation which has fed [...]
I’ve reposted this letter from the CPI(Maoist), in it’s entirety, from an Indian leftist students site. I post this now, as I have posted similar things before, in the interest of showing the different forces tugging on the UCPN(Maoist). In not so few words, it indicates the CPI(Maoist)’s concern that the UCPN(Maoist) [...]
I’ve been meaning to get over to the Narayanhiti Palace Museum since I arrived in Kathmandu, but I’ve been holding out till I can acquire a camera. Apparently, I wouldn’t be able to take photos anyway, as mentioned here by Deepak Adhikari, who’s beaten me to it.
A year after Nepal’s last king, Gyanendra Shah, [...]