Himalayan Sham: Nepal Election Drama

Posted on February 11th, 2006 by United We Blog!

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Issuing a statement defending autocratic king’s election roadmap and deploring international community’s criticism of municipal polls, Nepal government fights back
By D Wagle
“His Majesty’s Government of Nepal finds the statements made by a few countries on the municipal elections in Nepal as totally objectionable thus unacceptable and asks them to refrain from making such [...]

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Postcards From Nepal: Violence and Suffering

Posted on February 11th, 2006 by United We Blog!

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I AM THE MAYOR THAPA: As newly elected officials of Pokhara Municipality were taking oaths in Dipendra Sabha Griha, people put posters with sarcastic slogans over an abandoned ox targeting Bhimsen Thapa, the Mayor [The message reads: I am Mayor Bhimsen Thapa]. The animal went around the Chowk for about one and a [...]

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Sunaul Clash: Aftermath

Posted on February 11th, 2006 by United We Blog!

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Images from the site where security personnel and the Maoist guerillas fought (Feb 10) killing 17 securitymen and 4 Maoists. Pics by Dipendra Baduwal

Locals look for the corpses of soldiers in the field on Friday morning. This is where the fighting took place.

Youths of Red Cross take part in relief operation after security [...]

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