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THE 16th DAY OF GENERAL STRIKE..
..ONCE AGAIN PEOPLE'S POWER TOOK THE STREETS..
..AND WON THE FIRST BATTLE!!

After Thursday's main clashes between more than 120,000 protesters and the repression forces, the regime yesterday declared again a curfew, but once again, according to BBC World, hundred thousand protesters took the streets of Kathmandu and other cities of Nepal. In Kathmandu police stations and tax offices were stormed and burned down.

4.20, RNA and the police killed at least 4 people and injured critically hundreds more

But even the repression forces were threatening with mass murder..

..the demonstrators resisted....

In the afternoon Gyanendra was forced to give a announcement: the country will return to democracy and elections will be held as soon as possible.

BUT(perhaps) TO LITTLE, TO LATE!!

According to a interview in BBC World with a political analyst, specialiced on Nepal: "The monarchy is finished. The king have to give up all the power and go to exile to India."

And still in the early night hours thousands of demonstrators were on the streets of Kathmandu demanding the definitive end of the monarchy.

Btw... perhaps you remember, just some days ago I quoted a demonstator. He said in a general manner "two weeks of general strike and struggle - and the king will give up"...

Here comes the latest news from the Nepalese and intl. bourgeois news agencies..

eKantipur..

Day 16 of general strike: Demonstrators continue to defy curfew in capital, nationwide demos

Defying the government-clamped daylong curfew, thousands of protesters have gathered on the Ring Road and massive pro-democracy demonstrations continue in all the three districts of the Kathmandu Valley and outside on Friday, the 16th consecutive day of the nationwide general strike called by seven-party alliance (SPA).

Locals from the Newar community in Bangemuda, Ason, Thaiti, Kilagal, Mahabouddha, Tyod, and Maddhyabaneshwor demonstrated by playing drums and kitchen utensils this afternoon.

A peaceful rally was taken out in Kalanki, where at least three protesters were killed in police firing yesterday. Security personnel were seen observing much restraint there today.

At least a protester was injured in police firing at Purano Baneshwor today. Mohan Raj Khan was injured when the police opened fire at the peaceful demonstration.

Defying the curfew orders thousands of demonstrators entered the Ring Road area chanting slogans in favour of republicanism. “Over ten thousand demonstrators have assembled at Kalanki Chowk chanting slogans and singing and dancing to pro-democracy songs,” INSEC representative Rupesh Nepal told ekantipur over the phone, “So fare there has been no intervention from the security men though there is huge security presence including Royal Nepalese Army soldiers with anti-mine vehicles.”

The demonstrators also demanded that the bodies of the deceased during yesterday’s demonstrations be made public and handed over to them. Some three dozen policemen had forcibly taken the bodies three protesters killed in Kalanki by breaking the locks of the Kathmandu Model Hospital, yesterday.

Thousands of demonstrators of pro-democracy rally took out a rally at Gongabu defying the curfew orders. Demonstrators at Nepaltar also burnt an effigy of the “regression.”

Likewise, in defiance of the government ban and curfew orders, thousands of political activists took to the streets at Kotewshwor.

At least four protesters were injured when police baton-charged a pro-democracy demonstration at Gyaneshwor. Protesting against the police action, locals and the demonstrators took out an anti-government rally. They also burnt an effigy of “regression.”

In Patan, local residents of Tangal staged anti-government demonstrations. A separate rally in Lalitpur passed through the major parts of the city.

In Kirtipur, expressing solidarity with the ongoing agitation, separate rallies were taken out by the physically challenged people and women.

The Loktantrik Sarokar Sanjal, Bhaktapur, organised a protest rally from Bhaktapur Durbar Square to Kamalbinayak.

Nationwide demonstrations

The pro-democracy movement has intensified in other parts of the country with thousands of people hitting the streets demanding the restoration of Loktantra.

In Morang, people from the Santhal, Rajbansi, Mandal and other ethnic communities staged demonstrations.

In Ilam, a protest rally was organized by various professional organizations with significant participation from government employees.

Elderly people took out an anti-government rally organized by various religious organizations in Sunsari and Morang.

In Itahari, academics, businessmen and transport workers took to the streets demanding establishment of complete democracy in the country. They also urged the SPA leadership not to stop the movement on petty compromise.

In Janakpur, the market remained shut due to the SPA-called general strike and demonstrations. Employees of Nepal Bank, Banijya Bank, Janakpur Appellate Court, Dhanusha District Court, District Development Committee and Public Health offices staged demonstrations bringing the official work to a halt.

In Dhankuta, all the employees of Dhankuta Municipality office staged a sit-in protest against the government for two and a half hours this morning.

In Udaypur, expressing solidarity with the ongoing movement, all the employees of Rastriya Banijya Bank, Gaighat, halted the official work today. They said their protest would continue until the establishment of Loktantra in the country. The employees also donated their one-day salary to the injured victims of the pro-democracy movement.

Thousands of women including the family members of security personnel took to the streets at Gaighat, the district headquarters.

In Siraha, civil servants and employees of state-owned enterprises took out a silent rally against the government this morning. Protest demonstrations were also staged at Lalbandi.

In Dhading, demonstrations were held Adamghat and Dhadingbesi in protest of the arrest of 18 academics by the government yesterday.

UML leaders Gautam, Khanal arrested from TIA

Police have arrested CPN-UML leaders Bam Dev Gautam and Jhala Nath Khanal at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), Friday afternoon.

They were arrested as soon as they landed at the TIA on a flight from New Delhi.

"Police at the TIA arrested the leaders at around 3 in the afternoon today, as soon as they arrived," an official at the UML Headquarters at Balkhu told ekantipur.

"They (police) have kept comrade Gautam at the TIA while comrade Khanal has been brought to the Paharagan at Tripureshwor," he added.

Both Gautam and Khanal had been staying in the Indian capital New Delhi for the last two and a half months.

The two leaders had reportedly gone to Delhi to facilitate the finalisation and signing of the Second Memorandum of Understanding reached between the seven-party alliance (SPA) and the Maoist rebels that was made public by the rebels and the SPA on March 19 through separate statements.

Royal Proclamation incomplete, ambiguous; conspiracy to diffuse movement: SPA, civil society leaders

Seven-party alliance (SPA) and civil society leaders have termed Friday's Royal Proclamation as being “incomplete and ambiguous” and "a conspiracy to diffuse the ongoing people's movement.” The general strike and mass demonstrations will continue effectively, they say.

Nepali Congress-Democratic (NC) President and former prime minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that there was no room to be optimistic about the King’s Proclamation. He also said the royal proclamation had “many ambiguities.”

He added that the SPA would discuss the proclamation and he would remain firm on the decision taken by the SPA. “To me, the nation and democracy are important,” Deuba said, “I will not go beyond the (SPA’s) roadmap.”

Saying that there was nothing new about the king returning the executive power to the people, Deuba, who was sacked twice by the king in the past, said, “I was given the right to use the right under Article 35 after my reinstatement (to the post of Prime minister), there is nothing new in the royal proclamation.”

He also expressed doubts over the king honestly implementing “what has been said in the royal proclamation.”

“The Constitution does not give the king the right to sack the Prime Minister, but he (king) did, Deuba said, “The king has not been honest when it comes to using the articles of the Constitution; he has misused them time and again.”

Nepali Congress (NC) General Secretary Ram Chandra Paudel, who was released from nearly three-month-long government detention yesterday, said the royal proclamation has completely failed to address "the wish for an absolute change the parties and the people have expressed through the ongoing movement."

"An official reaction of the SPA is yet to come, but I personally think that the royal proclamation has addressed neither the people's aspirations nor the SPA's common roadmap," he said talking to ekantipur, some two hours after the King's televised addressed was aired through state-owned Nepal Television, Friday evening.

"In fact, I see it as a conspiracy to diffuse the movement," he said, adding, "The king has tried to confuse the movement, but the peaceful movement will now become more intense."

Paudel also informed that the NC's Central Working Committee will hold a meeting on Saturday to discuss the developments in the aftermath of the royal proclamation.

"The King's address has not positively and clearly addressed the roadmap and objective of the SPA's peaceful movement," said NC spokesperson Krishna Sitaula, "The nationwide movement will continue."

“It (royal proclamation) is incomplete. The people want Constituent Assembly,” said NC-D spokes person Dr. Minendra Rijal. He also said it was not for the king to tell how the country’s politics should move ahead once he said he returned the executive power to the people.

“Once the king the says he has returned the executive power to the people, it’s for the people and their representatives- the political parties- to decided the course of the country’s politics, Rijal said, adding, “But the king has asked to recommend the name of Prime minister.”

“The peaceful, non-violent, and disciplined people’s movement will continue,” he added.

Similarly, the civil society leaders who are being detained at the Armed Police Force battalion at Duwakot said the royal proclamation was “deceptive.” They even sloganeered against the royal proclamation inside the APF battalion.

15 civil society leaders and rights activists including former speaker of parliament Daman Nath Dhungana, former Supreme Court justice Laxman Aryal, human rights defenders Padma Ratna Tuladhar, Dr Madhu Ghimire and journalist Kanak Mani Dixit are detained there.

IHT, AP..

Nepalese king's promises fail to quell unrest

CNN..

Nepal's king gives up absolute power

Guardian, UK..

King 'to return power to Nepalese'

Al Jazeera..

Nepal king to restore democracy

BBC News - Nepal king moves to end protests

Please check out also GEFONT, General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions..

www.gefont.org