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eKantipur wrote yesterday..
Two more injured demonstrators die
Two of the protestors critically injured during the recent 19-day pro-democracy demonstrations died while undergoing treatment in the capital on Saturday.
Anil Lama and Chandra Bayalkoti, who had sustained serious injuries during police action against demonstrators at Chabahil and Tripureshwor respectively died while undergoing treatment.
Lama, 42, who was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital, Attarkhel, Jorpati since April 27, died yesterday, hospital sources said.
Lama was readmitted to the hospital on April 25.
Likewise, 35-yrs-old Bayalkoti of Nuwakot who was hit by a teargas canister in the chest and brutally beaten by police during pro-democracy demonstrations at Tripureshwor died at the Nepal Medicare Hospital at 12 Saturday night.
Bayalkoti and Lama were the activists of the CPN-UML and the Nepali Congress, respectively.
A permanent resident of Bidur Municipality-7, Nuwakot district, Bayakoti is survived by a wife, a daughter and two sons. He was cremated at the Pashupati Aryaghat Sunday afternoon.
Lama, an NC activist, will be cremated tomorrow.
With the deaths of Lama and Bayalkoti, the number of those killed in the pro-democracy movement has reached 21.
Over 5000 demonstrators were injured across the country during the movement.
The newly formed coalition government has announced to pay for the treatment of the injured and Rs.1 million in compensation to the families of the dead protestors.
Meanwhile, the government has already formed a five-member commission pledging to take stern action against those who used excessive force to suppress the movement.
http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=73026
Yesterday one of the main bourgeois newspapers in Germany, Tagesspiegel, published a long report, MAO.S LAST ARMY, about the CPN.M and the peoples guerrilla... But of course in German..
Until tomorrow I will try to upload here the essentials of the article...
Here, when you understand German, you can read the stuff..
Maos letzte Armee
Er nennt sich Prachanda, der Wilde. Seit zehn Jahren führen seine 20 000 Rebellen Krieg im Himalaya. Und gegen diese Macht wird Nepal keinen Frieden finden. Ein Besuch im Territorium der Maobadi.
Dschungel, Zentralnepal. Der Militärposten am Wegrand ist reglos. Die Polizeistation zwei Kilometer weiter wurde bis auf die Grundmauern niedergebrannt. Die Umgebung bilden Terrassen mit Reisanbau, 4000 Meter hohe Felsen, Bergwälder im Himalaya, aus denen die Gerüchte kommen.
Und tiefes Mittelalter. Der Pfad ist eine Treppe, die über dem Fluss Ansi fast senkrecht ins Gestein gehauen ist. Am Abgrund vorbei drängt sich ein Junge, auf seinem Rücken sitzt ein Mann. Die beiden sind seit zwei Tagen unterwegs. Die Schmerzen im Auge des Vaters sind stark, sagt der Sohn, die Straße und die Bushaltestelle zum Arzt sind noch zwei Tagesmärsche entfernt.
Es gibt keine Straßen, Telefone oder Stromleitungen. „Nachts arbeiten die Frauen manchmal nackt auf den Feldern“, erzählt unser 17-jähriger Träger vom Stamm der Gurung, „wenn es länger nicht geregnet hat, um den Göttern zu gefallen.“ Dabei trägt unsere 40-Kilo-Ausrüstung in Badelatschen den Pfad hoch.
Read the full article here..
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/sonntag/archiv/07.05.2006/2505417.asp
DEMOCRACY IN ACTION
S. KOREAN GOVT. IS HUNTING ANTI.USFK ACTIVISTS
Yonhap ,the S. Korean semi official news agency, wrote yesterday...
23 more protesters face arrest warrants for anti-U.S. violence
South Korean prosecutors sought arrest
warrants Sunday for 23 more anti-U.S. activists who staged violent protests against Seoul's plan to expand an existing U.S. military base south of Seoul.
It brought to 60 the total number of activists, against whom arrest warrants were being sought. On Saturday, prosecutors requested the court to issue arrest warrants for 37 protesters.
Korea Herald..
Prosecution to seek arrest of 60 others who trespassed on restricted land
The prosecution is seeking arrest warrants for 37 activists and farmers who are suspected of organizing violent protests Thursday over plans for a U.S. military base in Pyeongtaek, a top prosecutor said on Saturday.
"The prosecution has requested a court to issue arrest warrants for the leaders following the government's stern policy against illegal violent protests," said Lee Kwi-nam, head of the prosecution's public security bureau.
About 540 demonstrators were detained Thursday after they scuffled with riot police who evicted them from their makeshift headquarters at the Daechuri Elementary School at the rural town, 70 kilometers south of Seoul. The government deployed about 15,000 riot police and soldiers and 700 security workers to the farmland near Camp Humphreys to enforce a delayed land expropriation for the expansion of the U.S. base. About 120 on both sides were injured during the clash.
The prosecution also said it will seek additional arrests of about 60 protesters who attempted to violate the farmland shut off by the military during last week's collision. While riot police evicted the protesters from the school, engineering soldiers set up a barbed wire fence around the land designated for the U.S. base's tripling in size by 2008.
On Friday, some activists and residents cut off the wires and trespassed on the land where unarmed soldiers were on guard. While the soldiers blocked the demonstrators equipped with wooden sticks from entering the site, dozens of soldiers were injured and 11 were taken to a military hospital by helicopter.
Police apprehended an additional 90 protesters on the spot. The prosecution is poised to request arrest warrants for 60 of them, according Lee.
"We cannot help but take strict legal actions against violent protesters who oppose the U.S. base relocation," Lee said.
The prosecution will arrest those who are suspected of intentionally creating a situation of military-civilian confrontation, he added.
If the additional 60 are arrested, the number is expected to exceed 100 in total, marking the largest security event in nine years since leftist students' protests in 1997. In the student rallies, 195 demonstrators were arrested.
Meanwhile, the protesters' committee in Seoul rallied in front of the Defense Ministry office on Saturday, calling for the exoneration of those arrested and the resignation of the defense minister and the police commissioner.
"We demand for the defense minister and the police commissioner to take full responsibility and resign for the coercive eviction of residents and all the problems caused by the expansion plan," the group said in a statement.
In the evening, some 800 civic activists and students held a candlelit protest in downtown Seoul, censuring the government's action. Later, they marched about 2 kilometers to Myeongdong Cathedral, but no clash with police was reported.
Farmers and civic activists have resisted the government's order to leave the land in Pyeongtaek to make way for an expansion of the U.S. camp which will become the U.S. military's chief installation in Korea by 2008. The U.S. military plans to relocate its Yongsan Garrison in downtown Seoul and the 2nd Infantry Division near the border with North Korea to the region.
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/05/08/200605080005.asp
Yesterday, according to VoP, about 3,000 people protested in downtown Seoul, near Gwanghwamun, against the relocation og USFK and the state terror. But please remember in Seoul are living about 12,000,000 people... So it seems that, unfortunately, nobody really is interested...
Please check out this, Korean article...
Please check out also..
..for a more personally view of a non.korean, please check out this..
http://blog.myspace.com/weicave
S. KOREA IS FIGHTING
AGAINST USFK!!
The S. Korean semi.official news agency Yonhap reported yesterday, 5.6, following..
Prosecution to treat protesters against U.S. base sternly
South Korea's prosecution said Saturday that it will sternly deal with those who staged violent protests against a plan to establish an expanded U.S. facility south of Seoul.
About 540 demonstrators were arrested without warrants after they clashed with riot police who raided their stronghold building in Pyeongtaek, about 70 kilometers south of Seoul, on Thursday. Hundreds on both sides were injured.
The prosecution quickly requested a court issue warrants to officially arrest 37 of those suspected of launching more-violent protests, said Lee Kwi-nam, head of the prosecution's public security bureau.
After evicting protesters from the building, army engineers built a wire fence around the area designated to become the new headquarters of 30,000 U.S. troops in South Korea.
But the next day, protesters and villagers cut through the fences and clashed with riot police again. Police apprehended 100 protesters without warrants again.
The prosecution is expected to request warrants for 60 of them, Lee said.
"We cannot but take strict legal actions against violent protesters who oppose the U.S. base relocation," Lee told reporters.
The prosecution is also seeking to arrest those who allegedly masterminded the fence-cutting, he said.
Meanwhile, South Korea's Defense Ministry is considering providing army engineers dispatched to Pyeongtaek with protective gear such as shields, defensive batons and gas masks, a ministry official said.
About 11 soldiers were injured during Friday's clashes. The ministry is also considering additional barricades in front of the wire fences, the official said on condition of anonymity.
Meanwhile, the protestors' ad hoc committee, consisting of civic groups and local residents, issued a statement calling for the release of those arrested in the demonstrations and the resignation of the defense minister and the police chief.
"We demand for the defense minister and the head of the police to take full responsibility and resign for the enforced removal of residents and all the flurries caused by the expansion plan," the statement said.
The U.S. military plans to relocate its Yongsan Garrison in downtown Seoul and the 2nd Infantry Division near the border with North Korea to Pyeongtaek.
The existing Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek is set to triple in size by 2008 and become the U.S. military's chief installation in South Korea, which is part of the U.S. global troop realignment for flexibility.
Last year, the South government took legal control of about 3.49 million pyeong of land (one pyeong equals 3.3 square meters) and has since been seeking to clear the area of people who remain there.
But some farmers and organized protesters have defied government orders to leave the site and vowed to continue farming.
FASCIST POLICE TERROR!!
Al Jazeera published 5.5 following article..
Violence over US bases in S Korea
For Korean reports please check out
..and of course
..and last but not least
NO RELOCATION OF USFK TO PYEONGTAEK!
JUST KICK OUT USFK!!
STOP THE STATE TERROR!
Koreans protest U.S. base plans
By Choe Sang-Hun International Herald Tribune 
FRIDAY, MAY 5, 2006
The government sent in thousands of police officers and unarmed troops, water cannons and helicopters to drive villagers and activists from a hamlet on Thursday, saying that their refusal to make room for an expanding U.S. military base threatened an alliance with Washington.
The South Korean authorities said that at least 117 police officers and 93 protesters had been hurt in fighting that highlighted efforts by Seoul to juggle two forces: the U.S. military with 30,000 troops in the country and a populace that is increasingly disenchanted with that military presence.
The fighting at the rice-farming village of Daechuri near the U.S. base named Camp Humphreys, in Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometers, or 40 miles, south of Seoul, was the most violent anti- American demonstration here in years.
Using clubs and water cannons, 11,500 police officers stormed the village at dawn. More than 1,000 students, unionists and villagers fought back with rocks and bamboo sticks, according to witnesses, TV footage and local news reports.
The protesters scattered, but about 300 made a last stand in the upper floor of an abandoned two-story school building, erecting barricades, hurling stones and shouting slogans against the U.S. military.
After a standoff that lasted hours, the police smashed their way in and hauled out protesters for questioning.
Several bleeding demonstrators were carried out on stretchers. The protest organizers said the casualty toll was larger than the figure cited by the police, but did not give a specific figure.
The last people to leave the building were several Roman Catholic priests and two lawmakers who had been camped on the roof. They said they opposed the U.S. base's expansion because it deprived the villagers of farmland and increased the possibility of war on the Korean Peninsula.
The removal of the villagers, who had occupied the middle of about 1,100 hectares, or 2,700 acres, of government-purchased land, will allow the Pentagon to go ahead with its plan to close most of the U.S. bases in Seoul and near the border with North Korea. Those bases are to be replaced by the expanded base at Pyeongtaek by 2008.
"The relocation project is the inevitable choice for us, aimed at strengthening the South Korea-U.S. alliance and deterring a war on the Korean Peninsula," Defense Minister Yoon Kwang Ung of South Korea said. "We can no longer delay it; unless it progresses normally, it will hurt our diplomatic credibility."
The police and about 3,000 soldiers erected a 29-kilometer razor wire fence around the government land, which will be used to triple the size of Camp Humphreys.
Parliament has approved an agreement signed in 2004 to withdraw U.S. bases from the front line with the North for the first time since the end of the Korean War. Under the multibillion-dollar project, the Pentagon will close its sprawling Dragon Hill headquarters in the center of Seoul.
In the past century, Dragon Hill has been occupied by Chinese troops, Japanese Imperial Army units and American soldiers who came during the Korean War and stayed. For decades, the base symbolized the American sacrifices during the war and the security that helped make the rapid South Korean economic growth possible.
But younger generations consider Dragon Hill a daily reminder of foreign military influence and a slight to national pride.
Yonhap..
Anti-U.S. protesters clash with police again over U.S. base
Hundreds of anti-U.S. activists and college students scuffled with police for a second day on Friday at a site designated for expanded U.S. military facilities south of Seoul. Several people were injured, according to police.
On Thursday, police armed with batons and shields evicted the remaining occupants and activists from an elementary
school, a makeshift headquarters for the protesters. More than 500 were arrested, and some 210 police and protesters were injured.
Korea Times..
Police Investigate 524 Pyongtaek Activists
Korea Herald..
Cheong Wa Dae says no more delays to Pyeongtaek base plan
Chosun Ilbo..
Hundreds Held in Eviction of U.S. Base Protesters
FIGHT BACK!!
STOP THIS F... PLAN!!
ONCE AGAIN.. THE ROH GOVT. IS REACTING
LIKE A DICTATORSHIP..
Yesterday the German N24 TV station and CNN International reported briefly about the struggle against the relocation of the USFK from Seoul, and the border to the DPRK areas, to Pyeongtaek.
IHT wrote this about the struggle..
South Korean police and villagers clash over U.S. base
The South Korean government sent in thousands of police officers and unarmed troops, water cannons and helicopters to drive out villagers and activists from a hamlet on Thursday, saying that their refusal for months to make room for an expanding U.S. military base threatened an alliance with Washington.
At least 117 police officers and 93 protesters were injured, according to the South Korean authorities, in the clash that highlighted efforts by Seoul to juggle two forces: the U.S. military with 30,000 troops here and a domestic populace that is increasingly disenchanted with the American military presence.
The clash at the rice-farming village of Daechuri near the U.S. base Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometers, or 40 miles, south of Seoul, was the most violent anti-American demonstration here in recent years.
Armed with clubs and backed by water cannons, 11,500 police officers stormed the village at dawn. More than 1,000 students, unionists and villagers fought back with rocks and long bamboo sticks, according to witnesses, TV footage and local news reports.
The outnumbered protesters scattered, but about 300 made a last stand in the upper floor of an abandoned two-story school building, erecting barricades with furniture and hurling down stones and shouting slogans against the U.S. military. After a standoff that lasted several hours, the police smashed their way in and hauled out protesters for questioning.
Several bleeding students were carried out on stretchers. The protest organizers said the casualty toll was larger than what was cited by the police, but did not give a specific figure.
The last people to leave the building were several Roman Catholic priests and two lawmakers who had been encamped on the roof. They said they opposed the U.S. military's relocation because it deprived the villagers of their farmland and increased the possibility of war on the Korean Peninsula.
The removal of the villagers, who had occupied the middle of about 1,100 hectares, or 2,700 acres, of government- purchased land, will allow the Pentagon to go ahead with its plan to close most of the U.S. bases in Seoul and near the border with North Korea. Those bases would be replaced by the expanded base at Pyeongtaek by 2008.
"The relocation project is the inevitable choice for us, aimed at strengthening the South Korea-U.S. alliance and deterring a war on the Korean Peninsula," the South Korean defense minister, Yoon Kwang Ung, said Thursday. "We can no longer delay it; unless it progresses normally, it will hurt our diplomatic credibility."
The police and about 3,000 soldiers erected a 29-kilometer razor wire fence around the government land, which will triple the size of Camp Humphreys.
The South Korean Parliament has approved an agreement signed in 2004 to withdraw U.S. bases from the front line with the North for the first time since the end of the Korean War. Under the multibillion-dollar project, the Pentagon will close its sprawling Dragon Hill headquarters in the center of Seoul.
In the past century, Dragon Hill has been occupied by Chinese troops, Japanese Imperial Army units and American soldiers, who came during the Korean War and stayed. For decades, the base symbolized the American sacrifices during the war and the security that helped make the rapid South Korean economic growth possible.
But younger generations consider Dragon Hill a daily reminder of foreign military influence and a slight to their national pride.
"In the past 50 years, we have been much indebted to others, especially the United States. We thank them and the two countries will remain friends forever," President Roh Moo Hyun of South Korea said Wednesday. "But it's one thing to rely on someone and it's quite another for us to live independently and become friends."
With a history of being frequently invaded by China and Japan, Roh said his country was wary of the growing military influence of China and of a joint front by the United States and Japan to check the Chinese rise.
Seeking greater military independence, Roh's government is negotiating to persuade the U.S. military to give up the wartime control of South Korean troops, which Seoul handed over to the Americans during the Korean War.
But Roh also has demonstrated his sensitivity to U.S. interests by sending South Korean troops to help the Americans in Iraq, and by embracing a U.S. military realignment that calls on South Korea to spend more on its military while giving U.S. forces in Korea the flexibility to join missions elsewhere in the region.
Earlier this week, the Pentagon struck a similar deal with Japan under a global strategy of regrouping U.S. troops into mobile, faster-moving units to respond to new threats like terrorism. The Pyeongtaek hub, with its own airfield and located near a port, is crucial to the Pentagon's scheme.
Activists criticized the "strategic flexibility" agreement, citing fears that South Korea might be dragged into conflicts that do not directly involve the Korean Peninsula.
"We must stop Pyeongtaek from turning into the U.S. military's supply base for war," Lee Tae Ho, a civic group leader, said in a recent lecture. Lee noted that after the relocation, the U.S. military would be positioned along the Korean west coast, facing China.
Officials in Washington and Seoul say that the U.S. military's role in South Korea remains defensive. Seoul maintains that Washington agreed to seek its consent before redeploying U.S. troops out of the country.
In the past months, the confrontation at Pyeongtaek has drawn headlines as activists turned up to help 200 villagers resist their eviction, for which they had been offered compensation by the government.
Although their eviction was approved by a court, the villagers planted a spring rice crop. The government blocked the irrigation canals. Negotiations made no progress
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/04/news/korea.php
More about the background about the struggle you can read here..
Restless Pyeongtaek..
by twokoreas.blog
http://twokoreas.blogspot.com/2006/03/restless-pyeongtaek.html
eKantipur wrote this 5.04..
Maoists welcome govt announcement, ready for talks
http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=72736
BBC News - Nepal rebels agree to peace talks
The Last Developments in Nepal
eKantipur reported yesterday...
Govt announces truce, withdraws Red Corner Notice, terrorist tag on Maoists, annuls municipal elections
Reciprocating the Maoist announcement of a three-month-long ceasefire, the government on Wednesday evening withdrew the Red Corner Notice and removed the “terrorist” tag labelled on the Maoists.
The government’s move comes at a time when the reinstated House of Representatives unanimously passed PM Koirala’s motion to hold constituent assembly elections to write a new constitution.
Constituent assembly is one of the major demands of the seven-party alliance and the Maoists, who reached a 12-point understanding on November 22, last year.
PM Koirala while addressing the swearing-in ceremony of the newly appointed ministers at Singha Durbar said yesterday that the government would work as per the agendas of the alliance and the 12-point understanding reached between the SPA and the Maoists.
The government took the decision after holding a two-and-a half-hour-long formal meeting of the newly formed Cabinet at Singha Durbar today.
Newly appointed Deputy Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli read out the government decision.
Announcing a three-month-long ceasefire, Maoist Chairman Prachanda on April 27, said the truce was for facilitating the ongoing “people’s struggle” for a constituent assembly and a democratic republic “so as to lead the struggle to a historic conclusion” and for encouraging the parliamentary political parties to announce an unconditional constituent assembly.
The government also annulled the municipal elections conducted by the royal government recently.
With the major political parties boycotting the Feb.8 municipal polls conducted by the royal government, the turnout of voters was very poor—less than 21 percent of the total voters across the country.
The government also cancelled the appointment of regional and zonal administrators appointed by the royal government.
Tightening his grip on power, King Gyanendra on April 11, 2005 had appointed five regional administrators for the country's five development regions and 14 zonal administrators to replace bureaucrats.
Well, here comes the not so funnny development..
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US to support new govt, outcome of constituent assembly
United States Wednesday said that it would fully support the new government and outcomes of any election in Nepal...
Read the full article here.. http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=72653
Please remember... When your enemy is fighting you.. it is good and not bad... Mao Zedong. So, on the other side, when your enemy is supporting you.....
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Meanwhile many people, according to BBC World, mainly students, are still protesting and demanding a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC. They just dont believe the SPA and their way of politics.
BBC News - Nepal calls ceasefire with rebels
BBC News - Nepal monarchy 'out of politics'
In Berlin, Germany..
Some anarchists on the officially trade union demo..
A banner in the sky in my former neighborhood..
NO LIBERATION WITHOUT REVOLUTION!!
The beginning of the REVOLUTIONARY demonstration..
The cops.. everywhere...
Solidarity with the struggle against war, exploitation and rule..
1st of may in Nuernberg.. STRIKE, EXPROPRIATE, OCCUPY...
The Berlin Europe Mayday demo was under the slogan AGAINST IRREGULAR WORKING CONDITIONS.. FOR SOCIAL RIGHTS WORLD.WIDE. About 4.000 people paricipated..
Europe Mayday in..
..Belgium..
..Italy..
..Spain
Later in the early night hours in my former neighborhood two so.called illegal demos took place. Alltoghether about 1,000 people paricipated under impressive slogans such as NOW OR NEVER..COMMUNISM AND ANARCHY! ONLY HAMMER, SICKLE AND RIFLE ARE BRINGING THE COMMUNISM...
No comment please...
S. Korea..
http://www.nodong.org/main/news_view.html?serial=564
4.30 이주노동자 .. 대회..
http://www.voiceofpeople.org/new/news_view.html?serial=42297&category=type10
REVOLUTIONARY 1st of MAY, THE INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE DAY
OF THE WORKING CLASS
by GEFONT
LETS FIGHT TOGETHER FOR A WORLD
WITHOUT EXPLOITATION AND OPPRESSION!!
투쟁!
IHT, NYT wrote yesterday, 4.29..
Nepal minister takes new stand on rebels
Five years ago, in his fourth term as prime minister of Nepal, Girija Prasad Koirala, the elder statesman of Nepalese politics, ordered the Royal Nepalese Army to tackle a Maoist insurgency brewing in the hills. The army top brass, unaccustomed to playing anything but a ceremonial role and answerable ultimately to the king of Nepal, refused.
On Friday, Koirala, 84, was poised to take the oath of prime minister once again. He was too ill to attend the swearing-in ceremony, his fellow Nepali Congress party officials said.
But as Parliament convened Friday for the first time in four years, following three weeks of rowdy street protests in the capital and a concession by King Gyanendra to give up control, Koirala sent a statement laden with promises. He vowed to invite the Maoists for talks, to announce a cease- fire in reciprocation for a rebel gesture two days ago and to hold elections to draw up a new Constitution, the rebels' chief demand.
Such promises were nothing short of astonishing, considering Koirala's earlier antipathy to the rebels. It also signaled the momentous changes in Nepalese politics at a moment that history might well remember as the crossroads between war and peace.
The challenges facing Koirala and the new government that he will form when Parliament reconvenes Sunday are manifold. There is the army that once defied Koirala's instructions and still remains under the command of Narayanhiti Palace. Its chief of staff has promised to cooperate with a new government, but whether Royal Nepalese Army troops will, in fact, agree to a truce and follow the directives of an interim government that could include the Maoists remains an open question.
Then there are the Maoists. The new government faces the choice of acting tough with the rebels or treating them as partners in pushing the king to make changes. Recent promises aside, the Maoists have offered little proof that they will begin to play by the rules of parliamentary democracy. No one knows whether they will compromise for the sake of wielding power in the new government, which they call a "bourgeois democracy." Equally uncertain is whether they will be able to rein in their own soldiers, pumped up for a decade to fight for one-party communist rule.
The United States, among the most vocal critics of the Maoists, has already called on them to put down their weapons before elections for a constitutional assembly can be held. The Maoists have said they will not do that, but they have promised to isolate their armed troops under international supervision so long as the army does the same. The Maoists also want members of their armed faction, the so-called People's Liberation Army, to be part of a new national military. There has been no comment from the army command on that demand.
How to sequester the armed guerrillas during elections for a new Constitution remains one of the thorniest challenges before the new government and their foreign backers. "I think it can be done," said a diplomat in Katmandu. "The terms under which that's going to happen have got to be quite tough. It's a key issue."
Another issue is whether the referendum on a new Constitution will be "unconditional," as the Maoists insist, which would allow Nepal's citizens to decide whether they want a monarchy at all. Gyanendra, who ended up conceding far more than he initially wanted, will probably seek to preserve at least a ceremonial role for the monarchy.
But the loudest voices in the street protests brayed for the king to step down. "Burn the crown," was one of the favorite cries. Indeed, among Nepal's young, a vocal lobby had been calling for a democratic republic, with no king at its helm. That is also among the Maoists' chief demands.
Gyanendra, who seized complete control of the state nearly 15 months ago, agreed Monday to return power to the elected Parliament and to appoint Koirala as prime minister. His announcement capped three weeks of protests that prompted hundreds of thousands of Nepalese to pour into the streets and defy shoot-on-sight curfew orders.
The Maoists have promised to accept the results of a popular vote on the future of the monarchy.
The referendum on the Constitution was among the hallmarks of a 12-point agreement signed last autumn by the political parties and the rebels. Among the other points was a promise by the Maoists to place their armed troops under international supervision while elections were held and the formation of an interim government that would include Maoist representation.
"I am solely accountable to all the people and the seven parties, and my first commitment is to implement the road map and the 12-point understanding presented by the seven parties," Koirala said in the letter presented to Parliament on Friday.
The proposals for a constitutional vote, a cease-fire and talks with the Maoists are scheduled to be debated on Sunday.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/28/news/nepal.php
BBC..
Nepal MPs begin historic session
Guardian, AP..
Nepal Lawmakers Demand King Give Up Army
PS...
Asia Times, HK, wrote 4.26 this..
Nepal's crisis defused - for now
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yeah, stop the military terror against the civilians.i was in Daechuri only to get beat up by the police...
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