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, by SENGUPTA Amit
Amit Sengupta travels through the still tense and volatile countryside and finds that Maoists are ready for another push if the Koirala government belies popular aspirations.
The night is thick with the smell of the forests and mountains, while beautiful river Karnali ripples below like a (…)
, by LUITE Gunaraj, MAGAR Ujir, MAHARA Krishna Bahadur
Excerpts of an interview with the head of the Maoist negotiating team, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, who arrived in the capital this week to make the environment favourable for talks with the government in an attempt to end the decade-old insurgency that has claimed more than 13,000 lives. (…)
, by Parliament of Nepal
House of Representatives Proclamation
18 May 2006
In respect of the sacrifices and participation made by the Nepalese people in the peaceful joint people’s movement,
In due attention to the fact that the people had shown keen interest through the peaceful joint people’s movement that (…)
, by CHENG Eva
Four days after King Gyanendra buckled under the pressure of mass protests and offered to reconvene the parliament that he forcibly suspended four years ago, Nepal’s 205-seat parliament met on April 28. On April 30, it decided unanimously to hold elections for a constituent assembly that will (…)
As the product of the greatest mass upsurge South Asia has witnessed for decades, Nepal’s constituent assembly will be uniquely placed to create a genuinely inclusive democratic system. One can only hope that the seven-party alliance, the Maoists, and all others who eventually win representation (…)
, by BHATTARAI Baburam, VARADARAJAN Siddharth
What is your reaction to the G.P. Koirala government’s ceasefire offer and its decision to remove the terrorist tag from the Maoists?
We welcome this decision of the Seven-Party Alliance (SPA) government as a positive step that will allow us to move ahead and implement the 12-point (…)
, by CHENG Eva
Seeking to break the increasingly explosive momentum of nearly three weeks of continuous mass protests and strikes despite shot-to-kill military curfews, on April 24 Nepal’s King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah announced on national television that he would reconvene the parliament elected in 1999. (…)
Among the hurdles: the parties’ lack of confidence, as well as New Delhi’s anxiety over the U.N. involvement in the disarmament of the Maoists and elections to a constituent assembly.
MOMENTOUS THOUGH the events and accomplishments of the past few weeks have been, the struggle for (…)
, by PRASAD Yuri
For the last ten years the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal has been in the grip of a civil war, with the king and his Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) on one side, and the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M) and their People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on the other. Nepal is bordered by China to the north (…)
, by PRACHANDA
This interview was a major statement of the views of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). It appeared in the CPN(M) journal The Worker #10, May 2006, on the Tenth Anniversary of the launching of the People’s War in Nepal. Prachanda is the chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). (…)
, by VARADARAJAN Siddharth, VARMA Daya
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Prominent among the demonstrators outside the Singha Darbar were representatives of Nepal’s different ethnic and tribal groups such as the Newars, Magars, Sherpas and Gurungs, most of whom are marginalised in the current political system. Marching under the banner of the Nepal (…)
, by BIDWAI Praful
When former Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif met in London and announced their plan to return to Pakistan and fight jointly to restore democracy, one wonders whether they paid attention to one of the most remarkable movements unleashed anywhere to regain and extend the rule (…)
, by NAQVI M B
Just as one was about to salute the people of Nepal for their victory over a dictatorial King, few confusing developments occurred. It split the opposition seven party alliance with Maoists: traditional or mainstream parties accepted the King’s haughty formulation while Maoists, the new (…)
, by BOSE Tapan Kumar
The other day a friend told me that the US Embassy has ordered all American citizens, except those providing essential service to the US Embassy to leave Nepal immediately. A large number of Americans were seen at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport trying to catch flights to different (…)
, by O’NEILL Brendan
Why are those who bang on about bringing ’people power’ to foreign lands so ambivalent about the people demanding power on the streets of Nepal?
For the past two weeks youthful protesters fought running battles with the Royal Nepalese Army and police, demanding an end to the autocratic (…)
, by South Asians for Democracy (Nepal Campaign)
The developments in Nepal are momentous. They also exhibit the tensions of an embryonic legal regime yet to be born and the difficulties of resolving them with attention to the issues of legitimacy and the ideals of the rule of law. The midnight proclamation of the king, made on 24 April (…)
, by BOSE Tapan Kumar
The people of Nepal have triumphed. Last night (April 24, 2006) Nepal’s dictator, King Gyanendra gave in to their demands. Bowing to the pressure of the mass movement the king declared his acceptance of the roadmap to peace drawn up by the Seven Party Alliance and the Maoists. He (…)
, by ALI Tariq
Nepalese have lost their fear of repression and are making a genuine, old-fashioned revolution.
There is something refreshingly old-fashioned taking place in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal: a genuine revolution. In recognition of this, the US has told citizens except for “essential (…)
, by South Asians for Democracy (Nepal Campaign)
In meetings held over different South Asians cities between the 23 rd and the 25th April, where many concerned human rights campaigners, media personnel, legal professionals, intellectuals and others participated, it was decided to launch a South Asia wide campaign for solidarity to peoples’ (…)
, by BHATTARAI Baburam, CPN (M)
BABURAM BHATTARAI’S “LETTER TO THE EDITOR” OF THE KANTIPUR NEWSPAPER (Tuesday, April 25, 2006)
Presentation from the Monthly Review:
[The revolution in Nepal has led to the recall of the Parliament dismissed by the King in 2002, which shall meet on Friday, April 28th. The leading force (…)
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