Update: The CPN-UML boycotted a scheduled meeting of the political coordination committee, which was supposed to be attended by Prime Minister Puspa Kamal Dahal, as a mark of protest against the Maoist attack on Himalmedia Pvt Ltd on Sunday. The UML also issued a statement condemning the Maoists for “brutal attack” on Himalmedia. Former CPN-UML [...]
By Bishnu Pathak and Neil Horning
The reactions to the budget from the nation’s policymakers and critics are often guided by four motives. Those who made the budget in the past regard it as imbalanced and untenable and heap praise on their own budget. Others who suffered defeat in the CA polls from the Maoists [...]
By Conflict Study Center
On August 21, 2008, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), CPN (UML) and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) agreed on the Common Minimum Program (CMP), Code of Conduct (CoC), Modus Operandi of the Government (MOG) and the formation of a Political Coordination Committee (PCC). The documents were signed by Prime Minister and President [...]
राजतन्त्र राष्ट्रका लागि पिलो समान रहेको बताउने नेता पुष्पकमल दाहालले गणतन्त्र आएको चारै दिनमा पुर्व बनेका शाहबंशिय राजाको प्रशंसा गरेका छन । दाहाल संविधान सभामा किर्तिपु्रका प्रतिनिधि समेत हुन । जुन राजाको नाम लियो भने किर्तिपुरेहरु कुटुला झै गर्छन उनीहरुका प्रतिनिधिले तीनै राजा पृथ्वीनारायण शाहको प्रशंसा गरेका छन । उद्घाटनका लागि राजाहरुको प्रतिक्षा गर्दागर्दै जिर्णोद्धारवाट [...]
That’s one of the many slogans that angry people are chanting on the streets of Kathmandu today. I can hear them as I am typing these lines. They are protesting the abduction, torture and killing of Ram Hari Shrestha, a local resident of Koteshwor.
Some other slogans are:
>Hang Prachanda to death
>Down with killer Prachanda
>Down with Maoist
>Jhakku [...]
Who should become the Prime Minister of a Maoist led government? The answer which depends on whom you ask in the Maoist party, it appears, has kicked off another round of power struggle within the former rebel organization.
Oh… the power! It changes people, makes people and breaks people. Most people that is, and Maoists are [...]
Expressing serious concern over what it said were criminal activities of YCL (that is, Young Communist League of the Maoist party), the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged the government to independently and impartially probe crimes committed by the Maoist youth wing and punish them on charges of criminal offence. “NHRC has received complaints [...]
Eye on Maoist: The Koteshwor area of Kathmandu is tense today, just like yesterday, with traffic to and from Bhaktapur completely disrupted by the agitating locals who are protesting the brutal murder of a local resident by the Maoist PLA recently. Tires are being burnt. As I am typing these lines, people in Tinkune [...]
A reporter’s diary detailing pre-election atrocities of the Maoist in far west Nepal in Blogmandu.
Residents of Koteshwor organized an anti-Maoist protest rally today by blocking traffic.
Eye on Maoist: Even after the surprise victory in the April 10 CA polls, the Maoist hasn’t changed its wartime behavior of intimidation, abduction and killings. The Maoist is [...]
Maoists burn down Chairman Pranchanda’s effigy in Rautahat: CPN-Maoist activists of Rautahat district today burnt down the effigy of party Chairman Prachanda and demanded for his resignation in protests of the inclusion of no nominees from the district by the party leadership in the closed list for proportional representation system. This is the first [...]
