Hooligans described in nepali media as 'students' made life hell yesterday in Kathmandu streets. The reason (if these assholes need any reason AT ALL!): HMG has announced rise in price of petroleum products! 1 liter costs 62 Nepalese Rupee now, which is 5.62 Norwegian Kroner, about half of norw. price!
The simple thing, that not even Nepali King, let alone HMG has influence on the muslim-dominated Crude Oil Rate from OPEC seems to escape these 'students'. That can be understood, if not accepted - these people will riot for anything - imagined slur by Indian movie-star against Nepal, beheading of Nepalis in Iraq (though I must admit this was A GOOD REASON, and conseq. put the local representatives of R-o-P in proper place...)
What CANNOT be understood were rantings by political parties from all sides of the spectrum (well, not much on the right side: RPP is hardly the paragon of conservative virtues, and the rest: Nep.Congress, Comm.P.of Nepal -UML etc. ARE communists!). In the streets there were riots, thugs stoned taxis and private cars, forcibly down shutters on shops, burned tyres... A dentist friend told of tear-gas wafting up into her 3rd floor clinic in Putali Sadak..
And the so calld LEADERS talk about how unfair it is to raise price of petrol for the third time in a year, the emotional spokeswoman of RPP (her own party is in HMG!) shouted that this is a CONSPIRACY to steal funds for elections...
If this is how 'RESPONSIBLE' parties behave (and we have, based on past riots, ALL THE REASONS to believe the parties actively abetted, no, - ORGANIZED - , the 'students' riots), G*D(S) help Nepal.
... or abolish this 'SHAM DEMOCRAZY', temporarily, and clean this mess first!
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