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DAY 7 OF THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY

IF WE CONTINUE THIS STRUGGLE TWO WEEKS THE POWER OF THE KING WILL MELT AWAY..

..a demonstrator said yesterday on a banned rally in Kathmandu, according to the German daily Berliner Zeitung.

Despide the government lifted the curfew, but all pro democratic demos and rallies were banned. But thousands of demonstrators resisted... And the repression forces killed at least one person and injured dozens other all across the country. Alone in Kathmandu, according to BBC World, more than 100 activists were arrested yesterday.

WHY THIS MOVEMENT IS GETTING NO SUPPORT::: It, if it could be victoriously, could be the first liberation in the 21st century.

Anyway, here are the latest news..

eKantipur reported following..

Police continue to intervene in demonstrations, 1 killed in Nawalparasi, dozens arrested

Despite the lifting of the daytime curfew, security personnel on Wednesday intervened in peaceful rallies in various parts of the Kathmandu Valley, that were to converge into a mass gathering to be organized at Khulla Manch, to pay tributes to those killed in the ongoing movement for the restoration of democracy.

At least a protester was killed and more tham two-dozen others injured when the police shoot at peaceful demonstrations in Nawalparasi district today.

According to our correspondent Narayan Sharma, six of the injured are in serious condition.

The deceased has been identified as local resident Bishnu Pandey.

In Kathmandu, dozens of activists were injured and several others arrested in the police action.

The agitating seven-party alliance (SPA) was scheduled to organize a peaceful mourning ceremony at Khulla Manch, also known as Sahid Manch, to mark the martyrdom of Umesh Chandra Thapa, Tulasi Chhetri, Darshan Lal Yadav and Shiva Hari Kunwar who were shot dead by security men during the pro-democracy demonstrations.

Though the government authorities lifted daytime curfew imposed in the valley from today, the prohibitory orders, which bans from holding public gatherings, remains still in place.

The policemen arrested more than half dozen activists including Nepali Congress’ Shashank Koirala and UML's Prakash Jwala from a rally at Thamel. The rally was taken out from Gongabu, wherein over 100 protesters were injured, some critically, in police action on Tuesday.

Over a dozen demonstrators were arrested from Maha Bouddha.

Protest demonstrations were organized at Kirtipur, Ghattekulo, Kalanki, Chabahil, and Patan since this morning.

The protesters torched two government motorcycles at Ghattekulo on the seventh day of the SPA-called indefinite general strike today.

Student leaders Bimal Pun and Anil Thapa were arrested from Bhaktapur this afternoon.

Similarly, policemen intervened in a rally at Tinkune and arrested more than 30 protesters including UML leaders Pradip Gyawali and Suresh Karki, NC's Padhma Narayan Chaudhari, and Samyukta Bam Morcha's Prabhu Narayan Chaudhari.

The policemen arrested Tek Bahadur Chokhyal of NC-D and Bishweshwora Dahal of UML and several others at Naya Baneshwor, while some one dozen demonstrators were arrested from Ratna Park.

In Bhaktapur, the Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party today staged a mass gathering protesting against the excessive use of force by the government on the peaceful demonstrations.

Meanwhile, the government authorities today barred some 103 political activists, who have been detained at the Women's Training Centre, Jawalakhel, from organizing a blood donation programme for the injured pro-democracy demonstrators.

The authorities stopped the activists from organizing the programme citing "orders from above."

Police open fire at artistes’ rally

Police opened fire to quell peaceful anti-government protest demonstrations by cinema artists and litterateur at Purano Baneswor today.

Police charged baton and resorted to blank firing when more than 200 demonstrations came out of the Gurukul theatre centre and assembled at Purano Baneshwor to express solidarity with the ongoing movement in the country.

The protests started from Gurukul in the afternoon where senior comedians Madan Krishna Shrestha and Hari Bansha Acharya staged their 1991 hit historic "Panchyat ko Shraddha" in mockery of the Nepalese authorities.

Nikil Upretti, Kiran Manandhar, Dr. Tulsi Bhattrai, Hari Govinda Luitel, Dr. Durga Prasad Bhandari, Desh Bhakta Khanal, Raamesh Shrestha, Satya Mohan Joshi and Dr. Manjil Upretti were among others participated in the programme.

Police arrested ten people from the demonstrations.

Pro-democracy activists continued to hold anti-government demonstrations across the country today.

In Gaighat, the district headquarters of Udaypur, dozens of demonstrators were injured in police baton-charge. Government employees also halted their works and joined the SPA demonstrations in the district.

In the far western district of Kanchanpur, a large number of people participated in a pro-democracy rally.

Anti-government rallies organized by various transport entrepreneurs, FNCCI, hotel entrepreneurs, civil society members and professionals were taken out also in Mahendranagar.

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