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On February 23rd, 1981, the Spanish parliament was stormed by 200 armed troops of the Civil Guard, a paramilitary group within the army. The soldiers fired in the air and held about 350 MPs hostage for 18 hours. They wanted King Juan Carlos to assume absolute power.
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The spring flower is saddened at the season’s end.
For none had thought to stop and smell her.
The breath of life, sparsely remembered still causes the hearts of all to beat
Yet most often is remembered not… lest she is shallowed or lost.
When night kisses day and day embraces night…Sunrise…Sunset;
But quick is their love and few but seem to notice.
A drunkard swaying to an fro; aware only of the blurred images before him,
Speaks the truth that most care not to hear.
I stand ...Notice me not...
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There will be more chaos as we can’t please Maoist no matter what. They want to establish Maoism – who can tolerate that? There will be new constitution – but a lot will happen before that. The tough road is election of constituent assembly which is not possible without Maoist participation and Maoists never believe in free and fair election. They want “unconditional” constituent assembly election. That means government needs to hold election while the Maoist continue to do killing and extortion. As we know from the past, that Maoist continued killing and extortion even during cease fire. We can’t let Maoist have 75% majority in the assembly just because they have night time control of villages and they can threaten people to vote for their candidates. They will try to rig the election and win by force if the government holds the election without disarmed Maoist participation in the interim government.
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The Chief of Army Pyar Jung Thapa’s recent statement that the Maoists could be incorporated in the Nepalese Army has brought an important question to the forefront. What is to be done with the large Army and Armed Police forces, and the Maoists guerillas?
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One fifth of parliamentarians elected in 2005 across the globe were women, according to a report released in February 2006 by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). This brings the average of women in parliament (Congress for us in the U.S.) in 187 countries to 16.3%, up from 15.7% in December 2004.
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On Thursday, April 20, 2006, I heard chants of “लोकतंत्र जिन्दाबाद”. The people of Nepal had awoken. They had come out to the streets on their own, self-motivated, and angered and frustrated by a repressive system that had denied them their basic human rights and abused and maltreated the people in the worst possible ways.
We people of Nepal are from the Land of Peace; our motto forever has been “बॉच र बॉच्न देऊ”. But time and again, we have been deceived by tainted leaders and a despotic king. Now, however, after more than 15 years of injustice, the Nepali people have arisen once again against the oppression they have had to face.
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ऊ र म एकै शालको ।
गोबर सोहर्दा सोहर्दै उसलाई जन्माउदा उस्की आमा गोठमै बितिन । अवस्था त मेरी आमाको पनि कम नाजुक थिएन ।तर अपरेशन गरेर तै हामी दुबै बाच्यौ ।
ऊ हाम्री खेतलकी छोरी हो ।उस्की कान्छी आमापट्टिका उमुनी दुई भाइ र तीन बहिनी छ्न । मेरो बुवा सरकारि हाकिम हुनुहुन्छ, आमा गैरसरकारि संस्थामा काम गर्नुहुन्छ अनि मेरो एक भाइ छ, मभन्दा पाच बर्ष कान्छो।
उसंग पहिलो भेट हिउदे छुट्टिमा म गाउ जादा भएको थियो। बाजे बोजुको र काका काकीको अगाडि मेरा बोर्डिंग स्कूलका अंग्रेजि राइम्सहरु नाचि नाचि मैले गाउदा, ढोकाको चेपबाट, आफुभन्दा अढाइ बर्ष कांछो भाइ च्यापेर ऊ ट्वाल्ल परि एकटक हेरिरहेकि थिई । स्कूल जाने इच्छा त उसलाई त्यसबेला देखिनै थियो। तर नौ पुगि दश लागे पछि मात्र बल्ल बल्ल त्यहिको नि. मा. वि. मा दुइमा भर्ना भई । आमाले मेरो पुरानो झोला र जामा दिदा लाजले र हर्षले, कुम साघुराउदै केहि नभनि सामान टिपि खुर्र भागि ।
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The thugs appointed as ministers by a regressed king who stole the representative government unconstitutionally (the phenomena is called kleptocracy) are shouting with their might that the current peoples struggle was infiltrated by CPN Maoist cadres. They even used irresponsible security personnel and vigilante, generally known in Nepal as hired killers and muggers, to torture the arrested demonstrators, already injured with bullet wounds or baton charges, and to make them sign the ‘confessed document’ of being Maoist cadres. Those were, of course, funny and stupid methods! There are none within Nepal and outside in the world who believed them or their ‘constructed’ evidences, or would ever believe.
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The Seven Party Alliance (SPA) should be very careful of what they are getting into. The strike which they have started seems to have gone out of their hands. Activists have started going house to house asking for at least one participant from each family and have asked private businesses to close down forcefully. People have to participate by will, not by force. These tactics are definitely not democratic but rather resemble that of the Maoists.
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The people of this great Himalayan nation have awakened. And the end is close – perhaps only days away. They have overcome fear after being exposed to the limits of oppression and humiliation heaved upon them.
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The royal takeover of February 1, 2005, whatever the intentions behind it, was well received by the common Nepali. They were glad that the recurrent strikes and Bandhs had ceased, if only for a while. Things started going awry when the king formed the Royal Commission for Corruption Control (RCCC), nominated discredited leaders of the Panchayat-era, and gave ministerial berth to some convicted criminals. Ignoring the already present Commission for the Investigation of the Abuse of Authority (CIAA), which the people trusted, and instituting RCCC irked the people. Whatever credibility was left was lost when the king held the so-called municipal polls without popular support. It was reminiscent of the elections held by Zia-ul-Haq’s regime in Pakistan.
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I’d been reading BP’s “जेल जर्नल” and GaneshMan’s autobiography (sorry, I do not even remember the title right now) when we started hearing about “BP संग्रहालय” being opened for public on the media. I was more interested to see what the authors saw and not really interested in the museum itself, but my Dad dragged me along to see a part of the origins of these creations. It was his idea that I read these books in the first place. I had taken up on his suggestion realizing how little I knew about Nepal and our history in general and in the hope that it would help me with my Nepali. These are only few of many books my Dad exposed me to since I returned back to Nepal that I am bringing up here in context. So, I took Dina didi’s camera (which she has been very kind to lend it to me while she is out there in the US) along with me, loaded it with a black & white roll, and went along with Mom and Dad to see this place that seemed to get a fair amount of public notice at the time. So here we are. This is what I saw.
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तापे तापुन् बल्ने खोडमा सबैजाना ।
पोले पोलुन् ताप्ने होडमा सबैजाना ।
बलियो सांठगांठ छ सजिलै नटुटेका
देखे देखुन् बिछोड, यो जोडमा सबैजना ।
सिधा हिडेरै गन्तब्य पुग्छु कसैगरि
कुरे कुरुन् भाड्न मोडमा सबैजाना ।
चिन्तन मननमा उज्यालो भबिष्य छ
दुखे दुखुन् बर्तमानको तोडमा सबैजाना ।
न किन्न सक्छन् न त लिलामै हुन्छु
बोले बोलुन् मूल्य करोडमा सबैजाना ।
तिन्का आखै आधा, म जे भरेको देख्छु
हांसे हांसुन् मेरो निचोडमा सबैजना ।
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प्रश्न
प्रविधिको झ्यालबाट
म हेर्दछु,
आफ्नो भविष्यलाई, आकाशलाई, गन्तव्यलाई
अनि देख्दछु
आफ्नो अतितलाई, धर्तिलाई अनि परिवेशलाई ।
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I had never heard of "The Community Consortium for the Right to Work" before. Neither am I aware of the constituents of this consortium. No doubt, after reading the advertisement below that appeared in "The Himalayan Times" on Tuesday, 04/04/06, many will immediately jump to brand this as a yet another ‘royalist’ lobby. I have no extra information to either endorse or dispute these claims. But as a working professional, with no personal political agenda, holding a job in Nepal and entrusted with a responsibility in these uncertain times, for myself and many others, I could not agree more to the word and spirit of this appeal.
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When a nation is in the midst of uncertainty, corruption and pillage of public properties skyrocket. The uncertainty affects every high ranking government official, including the judiciary, who are beset by insecurity because they have no idea what is going to happen next. So, to secure their futures, they start amassing more wealth by hook or by crook. Bribery, corruption, and the systematic siphoning off of national wealth remain the most common methods they adopt. Wealth amassed by such methods start crossing the national borders as these people do not trust local banks and institutions.
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