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4.11, THE 6th DAY OF GENERAL STRIKE...

..and according to CNN and BBC World the government, despide the police and army is using excessive violence, is losing the control.. More and more people demand that the king should leave the country immediately.

CNN yesterday called it the 'Final struggle'!

The Nepalese news agency eKandipur reported following..

Pro-democracy demonstrations continue, hundreds injured in police action; 9 tourists arrested

Despite the excessive use of force by security personnel to crackdown on protests, pro-democracy activists have intensified their demonstrations across the country.

Security personnel continued to use rubber bullets, teargas shells and batons to quell the demonstrations organized by the agitating seven-party alliance (SPA) in various parts of the country including in the capital on Tuesday.

Reports of several injuries and arrests are coming in from across the country.

On the sixth day of the SPA-called nationwide indefinite general strike, political activists today continued to take out protest rallies defying curfew orders.

In the Kathmandu Valley, the SPA activists staged demonstrations at Koteshwor, Bashundhara, Gongabu, Chabahil, Kapan, Jorpati, Bashundhara Chowk, Mahankal, Thamel, Chhetrapati, Ason, New Road, Bangemuda, Kalanki, Sita Paila, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur and Madhyapur Thimi, among other places, by defying curfew orders since this morning.

Over a dozen demonstrators sustained head injuries when policemen baton charged a peaceful rally at Panga, Kirtipur. Thousands of activists participated in the rally.

More than two dozen activists were injured in police firing at Gongabu. 65-year-old Toya Nath Poudel and former Gongabu VDC chairman Prakash Adhikari were among those injured.

A medical staff at the Emergency Ward of Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj told ekantipur over the phone that over 150 injured protestors were brought there today. 59 of them have been admitted.

“Five of them are in the operation theatre now (8:45 pm) and four others who are in very critical condition are under regular observation,” a doctor told ekantipur over the phone.

Tension in Gongabu

Policemen fired several rounds of rubber bullets at protesters from the house of a security man at Gongabu injuring dozens of activists.

The police beat up the protesters even after arresting them. The security personnel also fired dozens of teargas shells to disperse the protesters.

In yet another incident, policemen severely beat a child Aftahab after entering a motor garage at Banashthali.

In Bhaktapur, Nepali Congress aligned-Nepal Students Union’s Resham Dangol, Rajendra Wagle of UML aligned ANNFSU, were among six injured during scuffles with police. Nine activists were arrested.

The protesters vandalized the Land Survey Office and Land Revenue Office at Surya Binayak, Bhaktapur.

The local residents of Thecho, Lalitpur chased away the security personnel after the latter opened fire at the protesters.

A rally taken out from Patan went through Sundhara, Mangalbazaar, Gwarko, Dhaugal, and Chysal before converging into a mass gathering at Purna Chandi. Two taxis were torched and a trolley bus smashed by the activists at Shantinagar, Baneshwor this morning.

More than one dozen protesters including Nepal Tarun Dal’s Gokarna KC were injured during demonstrations at Chabahil, while a dozen others were injured in scuffles with policemen at Chakrapath Chowk.

Four protesters were injured and arrested later by the police at Sita Paila.

Police fire at a protest rally in Pokhara

Police indiscriminately opened fired at a rally taken out by thousands of protesters in Pokhara today. Two women Parbati Poudel and Bishnu Bhattarai were injured in the shooting.

The police opened fire after tear gas failed to bring the demonstrations under control.

The rallies were taken out from Shrijana Chowk, Sabha Griha Chwok and Prithvi Chowk.

Separately, 24 academics were arrested by the police from a protest rally at Lamachaur.

In Dharan, police fired three rounds of bullets at a protest rally.

A large pro-democracy rally was taken out at Narayanghat, Chitwan this afternoon. The rally defied the curfew orders in the town.

Police in Nawalparasi opened six rounds of fire into the air to disperse the agitating demonstrators, injuring six of them. Several rounds of teargas shells were also fired.

In Banke, almost all the employees of Teaching Hospital, Agricultural Development Bank, Nepal Bank Limited, Banijya Bank, Rural Development Bank, Electricity Authority and Nepal Telecom, halted their work and joined the SPA-called protest demonstrations.

In Biratnagar, protest demonstrations were staged by burning tyres on the roads since early morning.

Protest rallies taken out from Bargathi, Bus Park, Devkota Chowk and Pokhariya went through major parts of the town.

Similarly, All the doctors in Biratnagar stopped their work and joined the SPA’s protest demonstrations.

9 tourists arrested

Meanwhile many tourists held a protest demonstration in Thamel, a major tourist hub in Kathmandu, requesting the government, parties and Maoists to start dialogue immediate dialogue for peaceful solution to the ongoing conflict.

They also requested the government to lift curfew and begin talks with the parties.

police arrested nine tourists from Thamel for supporting and chanting slogans demanding early restoration of democracy in Nepal.

“Only the restoration of democracy in Nepal at the earliest can restore peace here. And we can enjoy our stay here only if peace is restored,” a tourist said before being arrested by the police.

http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=70892