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"We will burn the crown"
Gyanendra's(a.k.a. the king) "Offer"- To Little, To Late!
According to CNN's reports from y'day: representaives of the Seven Parties Alliance(SPA)
said that the king's "offer" is nothing new and will have no effect to decrease the
current situation in Nepal.
Meanwhile political analysts said that in the coming days the "violence will increasing".
And also: that "it is just a matter of time, that the maoists(CPN-M) will soon take over the complete power in Nepal".
The CNN correspondent: "There will be no compromise between the king and the maoists(CPN-M)
and between the king and the political parties(SPA)."
Meanwhile the SPA rejected Gyanendra's "offer", demanded real democracy and promissed to
continue the struggle until the king is meeting their demands or just give up his position completely.
Anyway... here are the latest news from Nepalese and intl. media..
The Nepalese eKantipur ,4.14..
SPA leaders reject king's talks offer
Leaders of the Seven Party Allaince (SPA) Friday vowed to continue with their peaceful protest and rejected the king's offer for dailogue with political parties.
"The king's message is just the formality and it has not addressed the burning problems plaguing the nation at present. The peaceful agitation will continue," said K.P.Oli, senior leader of the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist.
In a new year message the king today renewed his call for talks with all political parties and said that general elections should be conducted without any delay.
"We believe that there is no alternative to multiparty democracy in the 21st century and the verdict of the ballot alone is legitimate, the King said, adding, "... we, therefore, call upon all political parties to join in a dialogue, which we have always advocated, to bear the responsibility of and contribute towards activating the multiparty democratic polity," the king said.
"There is so much violence and bloodshed going on and people are protesting all over the country demanding restoration of people's sovereignty but he is acting as if nothing has happened," Oli said.
Thousands of people have come into the streets demanding restoration of democracy across the country over the past week as the alliance intensified its protests to pressurize the king to give up power.
At least four people have died, hundreds arrested and many others injured as the protestors and the security forces were engaged in violent clashes during demonstrations nationwide.
"No one should have confusion in what the king is trying to do. It is very clear that the king is firm in his own roadmap and he doesn't want to talk with open mind," said Minendra Risal, spokesman of the Nepali Congress-Democratic Party.
On Thursday, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan through a statement issued by his spokesman in New York said that he "is more than ever concerned about the deteriorating situation."
Annan also reiterated his call for an inclusive national dialogue of all Nepalese political forces and for King Gyanendra to take "courageous steps" to find a way avoid further bloodshed.
"It is quite clear that the Nepalese people want a swift end to the conflict and instability and the immediate restoration of democracy. The loss of life and denial of legitimate rights should end without delay," Annan said.
International pressure has been mounting on king to reach out to the political parties as the United States, India, European Union and Japan expressed concern over the deteiorating political situation in Nepal last week.
The US embassy in Kathmandu closed down its visa section and reduced staffing in its mission citing security reasons. The move came after a wave of violent protests in the country.
US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack earlier this week said that King Gyanendra's failure to bring the parties back into a process to restore democracy has compounded the problem.
"As a friend of Nepal, we must state that King Gyanendra's decision fourteen months ago to impose direct palace rule in Nepal has failed in every regard. The demonstrations, deaths, arrests, and Maoist attacks in the past few days have shown there is more insecurity, not less," said Sean McCormack in a statement.
"He has failed to recognize the spirit of people's sentiment who have taken to the streets to get back their sovereignty. We will continue our movement unless complete democracy is restored," said Krishna Prasad Sitaula, spokesman of the Nepali Congress party.
Meanwhile, CPN-Maoist Chairman Prachanda today said the king's address has shown "feudal stubbornness" by ignoring the burning issues of the country and people.
“Now it is clear that the Nepali people's wish for democracy and peace will be fulfilled only after taking the ongoing movement to the pinnacle of success,” Prachanda said.
The Maoist leader also reiterated his commitment to work as per the understanding reached with the seven parties and develop common programmes.
Pro-democracy demonstrations continue
Pro-democracy demonstrations were held across the country on the ninth consecutive day of the indefinite nationwide general strike called by the seven-party alliance, on Friday.
A huge pro-democracy rally was taken out in the Biratnagar Sub-Metropolis organized by the Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ), Morang branch. Doctors, engineers, lawyers, civil society leaders and other professionals participated in the rally.
In Urlabari, Morang, the SPA activists organized a cycle rally. Demonstrations also were held in Babiyabirta and Jante of the district.
Reports from Rajbiraj said thousands of people participated in an anti-government demonstrations
Meanwhile, security personnel arrested more than 100 demonstrators, including 53 women and 14 journalists, from a peaceful rally at Baglung bazaar, the district headquarters Baglung today. The authorities, however, released all of them in the evening.
In Arghakhanchi, normal life was crippled throughout the day as vehicular movement remained disrupted, industries and other organizations remained closed due to the general strike. Thousands of villagers took out anti-government rally at the district headquarters Sandhikharka.
Reports coming in said similar pro-democracy rallies were organized in Dhankuta, Ilam, Sindhupalchowk, Janakpur, Panchthar, Kaski, Jhapa, Taplejung, Dhading, Dhangadhi, Parbat and other districts.
14 NGO activists arrested
Police intervened in a peaceful demonstration organized by various NGOs in the capital on Friday morning and arrested 14 NGO activists.
Police intercepted in the demonstration that began from Naya Baneshwar and was headed for Purano Baneshwar this morning.
Bhagawati Nepal, Sharmila Karki, Dr Netra Timsina, Shanti Adhikari, Bhola Bhattarai, Rajendra Lamichhane, among others were arrested by the security personnel today.
Issuing a statement, the NGO federation has condemned the police intervention in a peaceful demonstration. It has also demanded immediate release of all the political detainees arrested during the ongoing protests.
BBC News - Nepal parties reject king's offer
IHT, NYT..
Nepal's youths see a future, but will it work?
The Nepalese New Year dawned Friday, with Nepal's young lashing furiously at the past.
"We will not ask the king to leave the throne - we will go and take the throne and put it on display," Gagan Thapa, 29, the political symbol of young Nepal, told a crowd of thousands on the outskirts of the capital on Thursday. The vast majority, dressed in baseball caps and jeans and looking well below the age of 30, roared in approval.
A brassy anti-monarchy call-and-response echoed through the warren of terraced lanes.
"We will burn the crown," Thapa shouted.
"Burn the crown, burn the crown!" the crowd hollered back.
The irrepressible protests that have gripped Nepal over the last several days demanding the end of palace rule and the reinstatement of Parliament are in large measure a function of demography and its discontent.
Young Nepal has been at the forefront of the recent rambunctious, often violent pro-democracy protests that have left four people dead.
Whether Nepal descends into further tumult or sees the dawning of a new political age in the Nepalese calendar year of 2063 will depend on whether they can be appeased.
With his country's crisis mounting by the day, King Gyanendra seemed to make the slightest of nods in that direction. In a brief statement read on state- owned television shortly before midnight, he called for general elections "with the active participation of all political parties committed to peace and democracy."
But the king said nothing about when elections would be held nor, more importantly, whether he would consent to elections to review the Constitution, something the country's coalition of political parties and the Maoist rebels insist on.
[The political parties rejected the king's call on Friday and vowed instead to continue with their protests, The Associated Press reported from Katmandu. "The king has failed to address the protests and the movement for democracy. He is only using the offer for dialogue to try prolong his rule," said Krishna Sitaula of the Nepali Congress party, the largest party in Nepal.]
Nearly 60 percent of Nepal's 23 million citizens are under 24. They came of age after democracy came to Nepal in April 1990, and they have tasted the fruits and failures of electoral politics. They have seen a Maoist rebellion put much of the countryside through the wringer.
In February 2005, they saw their king suspend Parliament and install prime ministers of his own choosing in a bid, as he said, to defeat a bruising Maoist insurgency. For 14 months, they have lived under the king's direct rule.
This past week, he banned protests in the capital and for six days imposed a daytime curfew.
That order has not stopped young people from defiantly pouring out into the streets. They have been taking the lion's share of police beatings: On just one day this past week, of the 59 people admitted to Katmandu's main teaching hospital for treatment of their injuries, only 13 were over the age of 30.
Consider the verdict of Shashi Sigdel, a 22-year-old medical student, on the shift in attitudes toward the king.
"My grandfather used to think he is a God," Sigdel said. "My parents used to think he stands between God and the devil. Me, I think he's the devil. That's the generation gap."
On Thursday, the government restored cellphone service, snipped for nearly a week, and lifted curfew in the capital. The ban on protests in Katmandu and several other cities continued - as did the protests.
The Royal Nepalese Army has been dispatched to some of the demonstrations. But so far, they have largely refrained from open confrontation with the demonstrators. Of the four people killed in the demonstrations, at least two died by army fire.
Pro-democracy demonstrations have been commonplace since the royal takeover of February 2005, but none have been as intense, sustained or violent as the ones unfolding over the past week. The Maoists have given their blessings to the protests, having signed a peace deal of sorts last fall with a coalition of Nepal's seven largest political parties.
Thousands of ordinary Nepalese, including lawyers, journalists and other professionals, with no explicit links to political parties, have been arrested over the past week. The palace has accused Maoists of infiltrating the ranks of the protesters.
The young people who have been on the front lines of these protests are the children of parliamentary politics in Nepal. Democracy brought more than elections to this Himalayan kingdom. It ushered in new schools and colleges. Roads were built connecting the countryside to the capital. A feisty independent news media was born.
Many of those who joined the recent demonstrations, if they even had any memory of the pro-democracy movement of 1990, had never joined a political protest before.
Ila Sharma, 39, remembered watching her neighbors light torches and march in the street in the spring of 1990. Last Saturday, she joined a protest march. The same day, she watched television videotape of the police beating protesters. She has not been able to stop protesting since.
Sharma said she had lost what little faith she once had in the king. "We are amply disillusioned," Sharma said.
The young Nepalese are a thorn in not only the king's side, but also the sides of the politicians who gave the call for these protests and saw them spreading well beyond expectations over the course of the last week.
In interview after interview, protesters said they would not allow their politicians to strike any power-sharing deals with the palace.
At the close of his speech, Thapa climbed down from his stoop and said he hoped the politicians who head his party, the Nepali Congress, would heed the message of the young.
He was quickly buttonholed by his fans. "Our destination is a republic," Rajesh Sapkota, 21, a college student demanded. "You have to convey this message to the leaders. We want to be clear about democracy."
Thapa assured the protesters their wishes would not be sidelined.
"We thought years ago that a republic was unthinkable," he told them. "Now it's possible."
"We will not ask the king to leave the throne - we will go and take the throne and put it on display," Gagan Thapa, 29, the political symbol of young Nepal, told a crowd of thousands on the outskirts of the capital on Thursday. The vast majority, dressed in baseball caps and jeans and looking well below the age of 30, roared in approval.
A brassy anti-monarchy call-and-response echoed through the warren of terraced lanes.
"We will burn the crown," Thapa shouted.
"Burn the crown, burn the crown!" the crowd hollered back.
The irrepressible protests that have gripped Nepal over the last several days demanding the end of palace rule and the reinstatement of Parliament are in large measure a function of demography and its discontent.
Young Nepal has been at the forefront of the recent rambunctious, often violent pro-democracy protests that have left four people dead.
Whether Nepal descends into further tumult or sees the dawning of a new political age in the Nepalese calendar year of 2063 will depend on whether they can be appeased.
With his country's crisis mounting by the day, King Gyanendra seemed to make the slightest of nods in that direction. In a brief statement read on state- owned television shortly before midnight, he called for general elections "with the active participation of all political parties committed to peace and democracy."
But the king said nothing about when elections would be held nor, more importantly, whether he would consent to elections to review the Constitution, something the country's coalition of political parties and the Maoist rebels insist on.
[The political parties rejected the king's call on Friday and vowed instead to continue with their protests, The Associated Press reported from Katmandu. "The king has failed to address the protests and the movement for democracy. He is only using the offer for dialogue to try prolong his rule," said Krishna Sitaula of the Nepali Congress party, the largest party in Nepal.]
Nearly 60 percent of Nepal's 23 million citizens are under 24. They came of age after democracy came to Nepal in April 1990, and they have tasted the fruits and failures of electoral politics. They have seen a Maoist rebellion put much of the countryside through the wringer.
In February 2005, they saw their king suspend Parliament and install prime ministers of his own choosing in a bid, as he said, to defeat a bruising Maoist insurgency. For 14 months, they have lived under the king's direct rule.
This past week, he banned protests in the capital and for six days imposed a daytime curfew.
That order has not stopped young people from defiantly pouring out into the streets. They have been taking the lion's share of police beatings: On just one day this past week, of the 59 people admitted to Katmandu's main teaching hospital for treatment of their injuries, only 13 were over the age of 30.
Consider the verdict of Shashi Sigdel, a 22-year-old medical student, on the shift in attitudes toward the king.
"My grandfather used to think he is a God," Sigdel said. "My parents used to think he stands between God and the devil. Me, I think he's the devil. That's the generation gap."
On Thursday, the government restored cellphone service, snipped for nearly a week, and lifted curfew in the capital. The ban on protests in Katmandu and several other cities continued - as did the protests.
The Royal Nepalese Army has been dispatched to some of the demonstrations. But so far, they have largely refrained from open confrontation with the demonstrators. Of the four people killed in the demonstrations, at least two died by army fire.
Pro-democracy demonstrations have been commonplace since the royal takeover of February 2005, but none have been as intense, sustained or violent as the ones unfolding over the past week. The Maoists have given their blessings to the protests, having signed a peace deal of sorts last fall with a coalition of Nepal's seven largest political parties.
Thousands of ordinary Nepalese, including lawyers, journalists and other professionals, with no explicit links to political parties, have been arrested over the past week. The palace has accused Maoists of infiltrating the ranks of the protesters.
The young people who have been on the front lines of these protests are the children of parliamentary politics in Nepal. Democracy brought more than elections to this Himalayan kingdom. It ushered in new schools and colleges. Roads were built connecting the countryside to the capital. A feisty independent news media was born.
Many of those who joined the recent demonstrations, if they even had any memory of the pro-democracy movement of 1990, had never joined a political protest before.
Ila Sharma, 39, remembered watching her neighbors light torches and march in the street in the spring of 1990. Last Saturday, she joined a protest march. The same day, she watched television videotape of the police beating protesters. She has not been able to stop protesting since.
Sharma said she had lost what little faith she once had in the king. "We are amply disillusioned," Sharma said.
The young Nepalese are a thorn in not only the king's side, but also the sides of the politicians who gave the call for these protests and saw them spreading well beyond expectations over the course of the last week.
In interview after interview, protesters said they would not allow their politicians to strike any power-sharing deals with the palace.
At the close of his speech, Thapa climbed down from his stoop and said he hoped the politicians who head his party, the Nepali Congress, would heed the message of the young.
He was quickly buttonholed by his fans. "Our destination is a republic," Rajesh Sapkota, 21, a college student demanded. "You have to convey this message to the leaders. We want to be clear about democracy."
Thapa assured the protesters their wishes would not be sidelined.
"We thought years ago that a republic was unthinkable," he told them. "Now it's possible."
Al Jazeera..
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