"logically" had to follow the trajectory he embarked
upon 7 months ago: with ALL MEANS AVAILABLE get himself and
pal Nepal from CNP-UML back into driving seat.:
Police foil parties' mass meeting,
hundreds arrested
Arresting hundreds of leaders
and protesters including Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad
Koirala Thursday afternoon, police foiled the parties' mass meeting
slated for today. Agitating parties had announced a mass meeting at
the Ratnapark intersection despite prohibitory orders issued by the
government. Today is the 8th day of the prohibitory orders announced
by the government and the 15th day of party protests. Leaders of the
agitating parties such as Ramchandra Poudel ,Govinda Raj Joshi, Lila
Koirala, Nona Koirala, Arjun Narsingh KC, Ram Krishna Tamrakar,
Baldev Sharma Majgaiya, Bal Bahadur Rai ,Ishwor Pokhrel, Amrit
Bohora, Shankar Pokhrel, Keshav Badal, Bhim Rawal, Krishna Gopal
Shrestha, Lilamni Pokharel and Anandadevi among others, were arrested
in course of the protests. Most of the arrested leaders are reported
to have been taken to the Armed Police Force headquarters, Halchowk.
When Nepalnews called NC headquarters, we were told NC President
Girija Prasad Koirala has been taken to his residence at Maharajgunj.
The party cadres, however, foiled the security force's attempt to
arrest UML's Madhav Kumar Nepal, People's Front Nepal's Amik sherchan
and Nepal Peasants' and Farmers' Party's Narayan Man Bijukuchhe. They
have been taken to different hotels in Bagbazaar, our Nepalnews
correspondent at the scene reported. As earlier, students and police
are still (at 4:45 pm) pelting stones at each other. Skirmishes
between the police and the protesters are ongoing at Bag Bazaar. NC
leader, Ram Sharan Mahat, speaking to the protesters urged them not
to be afraid as, "They (the protesters) had already defeated
regression." Mahat further suggested the King not go against the
tide and the streets and the country would remain unstable "until
the King corrects regression." Party cadres took Mahat into a
hotel in Bagbazaar. Meanwhile, the police also arrested some 100
professors in Kathmandu. They were expressing their solidarity to the
ongoing agitation. The police is also reported to have detained over
20 human right activists from a sit-in protest organized by Human
Rights and Peace Society in the capital on Thursday. In the meantime,
the government Wednesday evening released three student leaders who
had been handed warrants for violating the Public Security Act
earlier this week.
(Nepali News
2004-04-15)
Anything, and I mean anything:
while jungle-comrades murdered lower "cadres" of his "own"
'communist party', Nepal met the butchers in Lucknow! GP Koirala
tried to incite "students": first against regressive
governement, later against the "regression" (read: KING)
itself!!! Nothing worked, alas, just as you try to rub two pieces of
dry wood together to get FIRE! What this 'machiavellians' don't get
is that nepali people (a term they LOVE to use, ca 20 times an
hour!), yes the TRUE AND TRIED AND TRIBULATED NEPALI PEOPLE had
ENOUGH !!! Even people that oppressed, that much lied to, so
desinformed, they smelled RAT - isn't it just so: ALL THIS
HULLABALLO and ENDLESS FRUITLESS STREET FIGHTS - all just to keep the
Kleptos Anonymous, the "golden Pajero Boys,"
out of jail. Isn't it just so that the CIAA (anti-corruption
commissn.) is getting TOO CLOSE to CHEESE? The more I reflect
over the past 6-7 months of fruitless disturbances, bandhas, the
dragging-in of gullible "students' into these street-battles,
the promises "never to end our struggle" - all of it
designed just that GP, Nepal & al. get back into Singha Durbar
and first thing will be 'castration' of CIAA and moving the
troublesome invstigators to some Far-West Customs post with Tibet! So
somehow the 'people' DOESN'T come to these 'Andolan
Afternoons', try to aviod them, ignore them..., walk in wide circles
around the 'Epicentre' of Ratna Park and Bagh Bazaar... The body language, the (relatively) small attendance of the street protests, the sneer and indifference in the villages of the Valley say clearly: Mr. Koirala, Mr. Nepal, we had enough!
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