United We Blog! is the first blog site of Nepal that came into existence on 1 October 2004 at wagle.com.np. It began as a diary of the founding bloggers who posted their personal experiences of journalism and reporting. Four months later, the then king Gyanendra imposed emergency in Nepal in a bloodless coup. Internet was unavailable for public for the first week of February 2005. UWB went offline as there was no Internet connection. As soon as the Internet service resumed, the site started blogging about what was happening in Kathmandu and around the country. At one point in time when there was strict censorship in the Nepali media, the site became the only source of independent news for the rest of the world.
Mission: United We Blog! wants democracy and peace to be restored in Nepal as soon as possible. We write about Nepali politics and society.
We accept articles related to Nepal from people all over the world
Email UWB: uwb@blog.com.np
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We are a group of like-minded journalists working on various media outlets in Kathmandu and other parts of Nepal. This is our forum to express things that we can’t in our media because of various reasons like space and time constraints in traditional media. We also include posts from contributers from different parts of Nepal and the World.
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United We Blog! born because we were jeolous of those who have a forum to post their thoughts!
because we love computers and more than that Internet!
because we know how to install php scripts on the webserver!
born because we have View Nepal Pvt Ltd offering us space! (Update (Feb 2006): That was then. Now we are hosted in a different server)
And most importantly,
United We Blog! born because we wanted to share something we can’t share in newspapers!
United We Blog! is the forum for professional journalists in Nepal to express whatsoever they think blogable and whatsoever they think should make to the virtual world of Internet and WWW.
Editor
This site is currently coordinated/edited by
Siromani Dhungana (siromani@blog.com.np)
To submit articles, please email at uwb@blog.com.np
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Founders
Site founded in 1 October, 2004 in Wagle Street Journal by
Dinesh Wagle & Ujjwal Acharya
Third Member:
08 Jan 2011
Kathmandu Nepal
Yesterday was a shameful day for the United States of America.
Nepal, located between India and China, recently ended a fourteen-year- old civil war that resulted in 16,000 deaths. The war brought an end to an autocratic monarchy and for two years now, they have been struggling to write a constitution and establish the framework for a lasting democracy.
The question is, if you have never seen a democracy, never lived under a democratic system, how do you know how to do one? How do you teach democratic principles to a nation that has only known oppressive authoritarian rule?
The United States has long been an advocate for the establishment of democracy around the world. Under international law, in every country the land on which the Embassy of United States sits is legally the sovereign territory of the United States. Therefore, any activity taking place on Embassy property is protected under the Constitution of the United States of America, and all the rights and freedoms therein are guaranteed, including the freedom of speech, expression, and the protection against arbitrary arrest.
Yesterday, Karin Landgren, head of the United Nation’s Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) reported to the U.N. Security Council about the possible perils and threats facing Nepal if the Peace Process is not completed and a constitution established. Even as she was addressing the Security Council in New York, a man in Kathmandu, began writing on the wall of the U.S. Embassy, using it as a whiteboard to teach the principles of democracy and constitutional law.
He got only three words written when Patrick Ballinger, a U.S. citizen and Security Officer at the embassy, told him to cease and desist, to stop writing on the wall or else, “the police with be called and you will be arrested for damaging government property.”
It brings to mind a memory of China 1989 when, during the lead up to the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square and subsequent massacre, dissents wrote on a wall called Democracy Wall in Beijing. Many who wrote on the wall were arrested and the United States Government issued strong diplomatic statements of protest against the arrests.
Yesterday, when warned, the man in Kathmandu stopped writing on the wall and left.
Within hours, the embassy staff took paint and painted over the three words – Principles of Democracy — that he had written.
Now the United States Embassy in Kathmandu has a clean white wall again and the citizens of Nepal, instead of learning the principles of democracy, learned instead the truth, that the democracy of the United States of America does not respect freedom of expression any more than China does and is equally willing to arrest individuals who write on the wall. They have learned that a constitution is no guarantee. The citizens of Nepal, struggling to establish a democracy and write a constitution of their own have learned a sad lesson.
Leo Whitman
Kathmandu Nepal
Email: fractal.universe@gmail.com
Principles of Democracy
1. In a democracy the people hold the power.
2. Together the people design a government and give it permission to run the country.
3. The people make the rules.
4. A constitution tells the rules that the government must follow.
5. And the people decide what the government can and cannot do.
6. A constitution should be short and simple.
(Most questions can be decided later and passed as laws by an elected assembly)
7. A constitution should include the following:
1) This country is a democracy. The people hold the power.
2) All citizens are equal.
3) Form of Government:
— one elected assembly or two?
— president, or prime minister, or both, or otherwise?
— how chosen?
— judges chosen how?
4) The Armed Forces serve the people and defend and protect the nation.
5) Rights and Freedoms of all citizens – List them.
6) Duties and Limitations – What the government must do and what it cannot do.
7) The elected assembly must meet at least once every how often?
8) Elections must be held at least once every how many years?
9) How to make changes — the process of amending the constitution.
Nepali are our brothers and sisters. History says India and Nepal was integrated together and fought all problems to gather. If there any other home other then Nepal for Nepali then it is India.
My warm love to you and your entire community.
Nepal has its own challenges to fight against china’s assertion. To tackle this they need to focus on their good ties with India. China wants to repeat Tibet with Nepal.
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