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[1] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Wed Mar 14, 2007 Subject: An Update on Nepal I/IV. http://www.nepalnews.com.np/archive/2007/mar/mar14/news02.php Palace refutes plot allegations In the wake of raging allegations about the palace plotting to derail the current peace process, the Royal Palace Press Secretariat has issued a statement denying the accusations made by the Maoists against Crown Prince Paras. The press release issued by the palace, on Tuesday, says the allegations are totally fabricated, baseless and malicious. A Maoist MP Janardan Sharma had, on Monday, produced a CD and handed that over to the parliament claiming it contains detail information about the plots by the palace to spread malicious rumours against the Maoists and even kill pro-republican leaders. According to Maoist MP, the palace had formed a committee headed by Crown Prince Paras to deploy hit squads to kill party leaders. The Maoists also alleged that the palace has allocated Rs 600 million for the purpose. Meanwhile, Speaker Nemwang has informed that the CD will be studied by the work management committee of the parliament. Earlier, Maoist chairman Prachanda had also publicly accused that the palace is plotting to assassinate US officials posted in the country and pin the blame on the Maoists. nepalnews. com sd Mar 14 07 II. http://www.nepalnews.com.np/archive/2007/mar/mar13/news05.php Thousands of combatants, arms outside cantonment site: Prachanda With the Maoists facing criticism for their 'low weapon count' during registration, Maoist chairman Prachanda has revealed that they have thousands of combatants and weapons outside the cantonments not registered with the UN. III. http://www.nepalnews.com.np/archive/2007/mar/mar13/news14.php UNMIN concerned about ‘unregistered’ arms and combatants The United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) has expressed concern about media reports quoting Maoist chairman Prachanda that the Maoists had many weapons and combatants outside the cantonment sites. IV. http://www.nepalnews.com.np/archive/2007/mar/mar13/news15.php PM to initiate talks with other parties over interim govt formation Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has agreed to initiate bilateral and multilateral talks with other political parties over the formation of interim overnment including Maoists. ----------- [2] From: humanrights <human.rights.india101@gmail.com> Date: Wed Mar 14, 2007 Subject: Bengal SEZ dream turns nightmare, 3 die in clash http://www.ibnlive.com/news/india/03_2007/2-dead-after-cops-open-fire-in-nandigr\ am-35984.html Bengal SEZ dream turns nightmare, 3 die in clash CNN-IBN Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 11:39 Updated Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at *Nandigram (West Bengal):* Three people died and nearly 100 were injured after in police fired at villagers in Nandigram area of West Bengal. A huge deployment of the police force had been stationed outside Nandigram on Tuesday night. The police had announced to the villagers that they would try and enter the village. This was a planned acquisition. The villagers too had announced that they would resist the takeover and that they would try and stop the police from entering the village. There are reports that when the police tried to enter Nandigram, villagers pelted stones at them and damaged their vehicles. That's when the police opened fire at the villagers, killing three. In addition to the villagers, many policemen were also injured in the violence including the Additional Superintendent of Police, Nandigram. The fresh round of violence came even as West Bengal Chief Minster Buddhadeb Bhattacharya was due to announce the Singur-Tata project in the state Assembly. Senior political analysts feel that outsiders provoked villagers to attack state government officials. The officials, according to analysts, were there to work out the parameters of declaring Nandigram a clean village. This is not the first time that the police have opened fire in the area which has been on boil ever since the West Bengal government has proposed to give land to Indonesia's Salim Group for a Special Economic Zone. They are facing opposition by the Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC), which is supported by the main opposition party in the state, Trinamool Congress. On March 6, police fired in the air at Mahespur village to rescue a CPI-M leader, who had allegedly been held captive by BUPC. On March 9, a 15-year-old girl was injured when supporters of the CPI-M and BUPC - backed by the Trinamool Congress - fired at each other in Nandigram, West Bengal. Before that, six persons were killed on January 7 in violence in Nandigram, while an intelligence officer was lynched there by a mob exactly a month later. ------------- [3] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Wed Mar 14, 2007 Subject: Bush, Bangladesh, Nepal and Democracy http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031307P.shtml Bush's Democracy Project in Bangladesh and Nepal By J. Sri Raman t r u t h o u t | Guest Contributor Tuesday 13 March 2007 Who says that President George Bush and his men and women promote democracy only by destructive wars? They do so also through creative, unconventional diplomacy. Look at their latest achievements in Bangladesh and Nepal. ------------- [4] Ms. Shilpa Shetty And Her Sisters Of A Lesser God By Ramesh Kamble http://www.countercurrents.org/gen-kamble140307.htm Ms. Shetty achieved both quick publicity and huge money. But, the marginalized women India, for that matter in the world, neither seek publicity nor they seek money. They just seek recognition and action, from both Indian and world community, against violence, harassment and discrimination they suffer in their every day really ???real??™ lives For Signs Of Peace,Look Out For Vultures By Jawed Naqvi http://www.countercurrents.org/ipk-naqvi140307.htm The opening line of the scarcely noticed press release issued after a second meeting of the India-Pakistan Joint Commission in New Delhi on February 21 said: The working group on environment has discussed the decline in vulture population.The news was extremely comforting. It was deeply reassuring that the two countries that had on several occasions threatened to annihilate each others human population were expressing a shared concern for the survival of a raptor bird Sri Lanka: Plausible Deniability By Chandi Sinnathurai http://www.countercurrents.org/sl-sinnathurai140307.htm Hundreds of thousands of indigenous Tamils from both the East and the North in Sri Lanka are fleeing to relative safety from the indiscriminate air attacks and multi-barrel rocket launchers from the Sri Lankan Armed Forces even as we write. A public statement released on 9 March by the Amnesty International reported Democratizing Blame By Somnath Mukherji http://www.countercurrents.org/cc-mukherji130307.htm There still are many societies in Asia, Africa and Latin America living closer to nature with capacities to evaluate the costs in their entirety; societies that have defined progress and pursue happiness in more benign and sustainable ways. Instead of pushing them to the margins, the ???developed??? world should be learning from them -------------- |
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