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| Thousands yell “Down with monarchy” at Nepal protest | |
| 2006-04-19 | |
KATHMANDU - Thousands of people roaring ”Down with the monarchy” demonstrated Tuesday and state employees were arrested for the first time in a two-week wave of anti-royal protests shaking Nepal. The demonstration came as Karan Singh, India’s new special envoy to Nepal, warned unrest was “spinning out of control” on the eve of his departure for Kathmandu for talks with King Gyanendra and political party leaders.
Police briefly fired tear gas and blank rounds but were vastly outnumbered and fled, he said. The crowd attacked a construction site named after the king in the town 500 kilometres (300 miles) from Kathmandu. “This is the biggest demonstration I have ever seen in Nepalgunj,” Pandey said by telephone. In the capital Kathmandu, at least 25 government employees were arrested for demonstrating, police said. “Twenty-five workers from the Home Ministry were rounded up for protesting against the government,” said a police officer on condition of anonymity. Home ministry spokesman Gopendra Pandey confirmed the arrests, but said he did not know to which ministry they belonged. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 Lets not degrade the Nepalese - we must remember that Mao Zedong/Tse-tung himself instructed his followers that the best kind of recruits were "blanks", those whom were mostly, if not totally, uneducated, unknowing, and basically too pure trusting God-fearing and naive, etc. to know what they're getting themselves into, for their own good. Mao himself derogat labeled most of his own Chinese people as "blanks", and whose very blank-ishness was to be exploited - abused iff necessary - for the good of China and Socialism. AS HAS OCCURRED IN OUR OWN COUNTRY AMERICA AND TOO MANY OTHERS, WE ARE VIEWING PEOPLE WHOM FOR THE MOST PART ARE BEING MISLED AND DECEIVED. TO BECOME WHAT THEY HATE. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-04-19 01:25 |