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Police Barbarism in Dang
We all know that pro-democracy CPN UML cadre Umesh Thapa was killed by the army on the Feb 8 Municipal Election Day in Dang. In addition to that, securitymen had come heavily against unarmed activists who were protesting the election. The woman on the photos is Shusman Sharma, leader of CPN UML, who was mercilessly…
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Election Victory For Royal Nepal Govt.
Their Achievement: Kamal Thapa, the Home Minister of the royal Nepal Cabinet and Chairman of the “victorious” pro-government faction of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) in the municipal election lifts the Award (that reads “20%”). He asks: “Is this small?” And the cameraman tries to console him by saying, “Small? No. It’s the achievement of our…
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Himalayan Sham: Nepal Election Drama
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
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 half-hour. After…
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Sunaul Clash: Aftermath
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.
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Himalayan Sham: Nepal Election Drama
– 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…
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Postcards From Nepal: Violence and Suffering
– 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 half-hour.…
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