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From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Sat Feb 5, 2005 9:45am Subject: Democracy Under Assault in Nepal [It's perhaps high time time to set the goal a notch or two higher - for establishment of a full scale republic and abolition of monarchy, constitutional or otherwise.] http://www.fpif.org/ February 4, 2005 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Introducing a new commentary from Foreign Policy In Focus Democracy Under Assault in Nepal By Kanak Mani Dixit Nepal??™s 14-year-old experiment in constitutional monarchy suffered a major assault on February 1, 2005 when King Gyanendra sacked the prime minister, formed a new cabinet composed largely of royalists, and established direct monarchical rule. This was followed by a declaration of a state of emergency as leading political leaders were placed under house arrest, media censorship was imposed, fundamental freedoms such as the freedom of assembly were suspended, and telephones (landlines and cellular) as well as the Internet were shut down. The King justified his actions under a constitutional provision that enjoins the monarchy to uphold and protect the Constitution. While he repeated many times in the royal address his commitment to constitutional monarchy and multiparty rule, the king's drastic action went patently against those principles. First, he was taking over as executive monarch on the basis of a personal decision. Second, the royal address was full of denigrating references to political parties, who are the intermediaries for pluralism and democratic practice anywhere in the world. Kanak Mani Dixit is the editor of Himal, Himal Southasian, and the fortnightly news magazine Himal Khabarpatrika, all published from Kathmandu. He contributed this to Foreign Policy In Focus (http://www.fpif.org). See new FPIF commentary online at: http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2005/0502nepal.html With printer-friendly pdf version at http://www.fpif.org/pdf/gac/0502nepal.pdf For Related Analysis from Foreign Policy In Focus: Nepal & the Bush Administration: Into Thin Air By Conn Hallinan (February 3, 2004) http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2004/0402nepal.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In conjunction with the IRC??™s 25th anniversary, we have a new name: International Relations Center (formerly Interhemispheric Resource Center). We remain committed to our mission of ???Working to make the United States a more responsible member of the global community by promoting strategic dialogues that lead to new citizen-based agendas.??? The IRC has been promoting ???people-centered policy alternatives since 1979.??? Please consider becoming an IRC member or donor. You can join the IRC and make a secure donation by visiting https://secure.iexposure.com/irc/donate.cfm . Thank you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Produced and distributed by FPIF:???A Think Tank Without Walls,??? a joint program of International Relations Center (IRC) and Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). For more information, visit http://www.fpif.org. If you would like to add a name to the ???What??™s New At FPIF??? list, please email: communications@i..., giving your area of interest. Also see our Progressive Response newsletter at: http://www.fpif.org/progresp/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ International Relation Center (IRC) (formerly Interhemispheric Resource Center) http://www.irc-online.org/ Siri D. Khalsa Outreach Coordinator Email: communications@i... P.O. Box 2178 Silver City, NM 88062 |
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