United We Blog

Month: April 2007

  • Young Communist League Rally Against Gaur Killing

    By Neil Horning Part of a Nationwide rally of the YCL took place in Pokhara today. Office Secretary at the Maoist camp near Prithvichowk, Kiran Thapa, gave me a few words about the program. “This is a program against the Gaur violence. We demand the government investigate, and find out who is innocent and who…

  • Nepal Peace Process: A Great Leap Forward

    UWB endorses the following editorial in today’s edition of daily Kathmandu Post [Inside: the plights of internally displaced people] The formation of interim government is a leap forward in our peace process. This day will be marked in the annals of history also for another reason: We have a date for the Constituent Assembly election.…

  • History in Nepal: Interim Government With Maoists Takes Oath

    By Dinesh Wagle [Here is details of what happened in parliament today And here is list of ministers] Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala resigned from the post of Prime Minister today only to be reappointed, this time by the parliament, to the same position within half an hour. [Historically, PMs in Nepal have been appointed…

  • Deadlock Ends, Parties Agree. Constituent Assembly Election on June 20

    GIRIJA PRASAD KOIRALA APPOINTED INTERIM PRIME MINISTER BY THE INTERIM PARLIAMENT UNANIMIOUSLY AS PER THE CLAUSE 38 (1) OF THE INTERIM CONSTITUTION, A HISTORIC MOMENT Now the country has formally entered into the interim phase and is now heading towards the election of Constituent Assembly. Below is the blow by blow account of the historical…