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  Nepal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Faced with a people's movement against the absolute monarchy, King Birendra, in 1990, agreed to large-scale political reforms by creating a parliamentary monarchy with the king as the head of state and a prime minister as the head of the government.
Nepalese from various walks of life and the international community regarded the MOU as an appropriate political response to the crisis that was developing in Nepal.
In the backdrop of the historical sufferings of the Nepalese people and the enormous human cost of the last ten years of violent conflict, the MOU, which proposes a peaceful transition through an elected constituent assembly, created an acceptable formula for a united movement for democracy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nepal   (4938 words)

  
 Nepali Women-No war Please.
Nepalese women generally prefer collaboration and consensus but poverty, lack of employment opportunities, lack of consciousness, social discrimination, and lack of political commitment for seeking problem solution are the root causes for the continuation and increment of conflicts.
Nepalese women know how their sons and husbands are taken as combatants, many do not return, leaving women to care for the remaining children and elderly populations.
Nepalese women cannot remember villages burned, the children made fatherless and motherless, the villagers forced from their homes, the millions of rupees squandered by weapons and destruction.
www.pressbox.co.uk /detailed/19394.html   (1448 words)

  
 Nepal  Nepalese People Do Not Want War StrategyPage.com
The people who have been displaced from their lands and homes by the current conflict, should be allowed to return to their homes and lands in peace and security.
Nepalese people know Nepal needs constructive support to focus on a constructive future and escape the horrors of further violence.
Politics should be for the welfare and interests of the people and nationality, national solidarity and moving the democratic line by enlisting the participation of all the linguistic and ethnic communities in the campaign of nation building.
www.strategypage.com /messageboards/messages/76-227.asp   (1507 words)

  
 LRB | Pankaj Mishra : The 'People's War'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Nothing was known about the more than 1200 people the army had taken from their homes since the beginning of the ‘people’s war’ – the highest number of unexplained disappearances in the world.
But few people outside Nepal cared or knew enough about its human rights record, and the proof lay in her office, which was austerely furnished, with none of the emblems of Western philanthropy – new computers, armed guards, shiny four-wheel drives in the parking lot – that I had seen in December in Afghanistan.
Millions of Nepalese have swelled the armies of cheap mobile labour that drive the global economy, serving in Indian brothels, Thai and Malaysian sweatshops, the mansions of oil sheikhs in the Gulf and, most recently, the war zones of Iraq.
www.lrb.co.uk /v27/n12/mish01_.html   (6356 words)

  
 Nepal: The People's War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The war was launched after the government failed to respond to a series of 40 progressive demands made by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) towards a democratic secular republic and new constitution.
The role of women in Nepalese society is being transformed by the People’s War, and mounting a serious challenge to the male dominated patriarchal ideas about women’s role in society.
It is part of the global struggle of the world’s peoples’ against tyranny and oppression and as such demands the respect and solidarity of republican socialists and the international working-class.
srsm.port5.com /swr/spring04/nepal.html   (1278 words)

  
 United People's Front / Peoples' War Group (PWG) Nepal
The CPN's goals are to end the Nepalese monarchy and replace it with a Maoist people's republic, as well as an end to "Indian imperialism," capitalist exploitation, the caste system, and ethnic, religious, and linguistic exploitation.
Over-population is already straining the "carrying capacity" of the middle hill areas, particularly the Kathmandu Valley, resulting in the depletion of forest cover for crops, fuel, and fodder and contributing to erosion and flooding.
Police, armed personnel, insurgents and non-combatants continue to be killed in the increasingly violent "People's War." Rebel tactics include attacks on Nepalese Government facilities and commercial transport vehicles, indiscriminate bombings using improvised explosive devices, assassination attempts against Nepalese officials, and calls for localized or nationwide strikes ("bandhs").
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/para/upf.htm   (5233 words)

  
 Nepalese Democratic Forum
Nepalese Democratic Forum is established with the goal of expressing the need of Democracy in Nepal, working for attaining and overseeing the humanitarian situation in Nepal, working for the upliftment of Nepalese in different parts of the world.
The democracy was established by peoples on 1990 so it is written on premble of the consitutuion that "the soverign power vested to the nepalese people that shown recent havy movement, millions of people stay together to preserve the democracy.
Recent development to resotre the parliament is the victory of the nepalese people and the government must work for the nepalese peoples interest.
www.ndfonline.org   (824 words)

  
 Nepalese Women's Involvement in Peace Talks
Seven years ago, the Maoists started the "Peoples' War", in order to force the government to implement their 40 demands.
To establish an unbiased tribunal where victims of sexual abuse and sexual violence used in the course of the conflict, can have their cases heard and judged in an environment free of social taboos and stigmas.
To undertake regular field visits to monitor the situation of people living in conflict affected areas, and to ensure that women are an integral part of this monitoring.
www.peacewomen.org /resources/Nepal/IHRCN2003.html   (616 words)

  
 War and Peace
This war is actually seen mostly referring to the 'inner war' of a practitioner who tries to conquer the 'inner barbarians' in the form of delusions like anger, greed, ignorance etc. However, the texts predict an external war in 2424 between Shambhala and the 'barbarians'.
Nevertheless, people have traditionally flocked to the initiation with the motivation of planting karmic seeds to connect themselves with this future golden age so as to complete its practice then.
People who remember Lam Rim in daily life, remember about karma and what is said in Liberation in the Palm of your Hand and the Lam Rim teachings and who practice this don't need to be told.
www.kalachakranet.org /kalachakra_tantra_war_peace.html   (3394 words)

  
 RUSI- Himalayan ‘People’s War’: Nepal’s Maoist Rebellion
Nepalese manpower is deployed across the world, primarily as regular soldiers in the British and Indian armies, but also as policemen in Singapore and in a multitude of private military companies, many at the front lines in Iraq, Afghanistan and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Divided by ethnicity and access to wealth, the Nepalese communities have broadly speaking coalesced into an urban population, living in the crowded new-town suburbs of provincial capitals and in the ancient slums of Kathmandu, and a rural population in the distant hills.
Local radio and newspapers reinforced by programmes for wider education all served to reveal that the lifestyle and consumer expectations of Nepal’s urban society compared harshly with life in the rural areas.
www.rusi.org /publications/journal/reviews/ref:B421B13670C1CA   (863 words)

  
 Burningman : Nepalese Parliamentary Parties Back Maoist Call For Constituent Assembly, People's War Advances
Meanwhile, the non-Maoist American and Western European left continue to ignore the People's War in Nepal and the atrocities the monarchy, with their backers in the US/UK and India, inflicts on the population.
Her recent book Dispatches From the People's War in Nepal is a necessary read on the early growth of the communist movement.
Her portraits of common people in struggle and their inspiring belief that they can remake the world against centuries of oppression is a tonic to the lowered expectations and defeatism afflicting much of the post-everything left.
burning.typepad.com /burningman/2005/03/nepalese_parlia.html   (1813 words)

  
 Eight Glorious Years of Nepalese People's War PROPER - The Pirate Bay
Eight Glorious Years of Nepalese People's War This movie shows the heroic and inspiring struggle of the peasantry in Nepal against all odds, even in the face of US and Indian imperialism.
The People's War in Nepal is a shining beacon to all oppressed peoples around the world.
Through the strategy of Protracted People's War, the Nepalese do have a great chance at winning against Indian imperialism, but the reason that we need solidarity with our comrades in Nepal is so that we can rally the support of the world against the brutal horrors of Indian imperialism.
thepiratebay.org /details.php?id=3348791   (1337 words)

  
 Humanitarianism & War Project
The pivotal nature of the Gulf crisis, the first major post-Cold War international emergency, and of the international humanitarian response to it, require that the experience be assayed and the necessary course corrections taken.
I.14. What follows thus is not a retelling of the story of the Gulf war nor a catalog of the ensuing suffering or of efforts to ameliorate it.
One of the stated rationales for the WHO/UNICEF convoy, which during the height of the air war threaded its way from Teheran to Baghdad with much needed medical supplies, was that the UN's humanitarian resources needed to be deployed to address human needs in a situation in which the UN itself was already deeply implicated.
hwproject.tufts.edu /publications/electronic/e_op13.html   (15408 words)

  
 Interview with Nepalese Maoist leader Prachanda - International Imperialism / War - Anarkismo
We don't believe that the people's war we initiated was against, or mainly against, multiparty democracy.
Some people have tried to draw this conclusion from the 12-point agreement but even at the time we explained to the parties that our slogan is a democratic republic.
Earlier, we were saying people's democratic republic but this does not mean we have dropped that goal either.
www.anarkismo.net /newswire.php?story_id=2521   (7735 words)

  
 Nepal Maoists, India and China - People's War's ! : Argentina Indymedia (( i ))   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In their propaganda, the Nepalese Maoists continue to say that Unless the Maoists of the South Asian region work jointly to counter what they perceive as the pernicious role of India, final victory would continue to elude them.
The Nepalese sources allege that Maoist leaders and their cadres continue to get sanctuaries in India and that many injured Maoists manage to get medical treatment from doctors and dispensaries in India.
They deny charges that their People's War amounts to terrorism and needs to be tackled in the context of the current international war against terrorism led by the USA.
argentina.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=56107   (2017 words)

  
 World War 3 Report #92   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In April, at least 12 people were killed and dozens wounded when gunmen attacked a bus between the tourist town of Luang Prabang and Vientiane.
In a harsh warning to his own generals who failed to show results in the war against the guerillas, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said Aug. 11: "They are going to hand in their resignations." The previous day in San Martin, Meta department, a car bomb left one dead and 17 wounded.
People not connected to the protest apparently took advantage of the chaos to loot stores and rob several street vendors.
ww4report.com /static/92.html   (14076 words)

  
 World War 3 Report #93
However, this war and those who are waging it not only have nothing to do with the rights and future of the Iraqi people, but they are completely against the interests of the masses.
Because of its bloody oppression, mass killing, and fascist policies against the people in Iraq for over 35 years, the Baath party must be dismantled and must not have any role in the in Iraqi society and the political future of Iraq.
Over 50,000 people are to be fired under the reforms, and 20,000 have been dismissed in the last 10 months.
ww4report.com /static/93.html   (14535 words)

  
 Iraq War Poetry
When young people sign up to serve in the armed forces of their country they do so in the belief that if the worst came to the worst they might be called upon to defend their country against an enemy invader.
Several parents of soldiers killed in the Iraq war have contacted the British press to say how they felt that their sons died in a bad cause or were betrayed by the British government.
The war was a war of aggression and as such it was the most serious crime in international law.
www.warpoetry.co.uk /iraq_war_03   (3273 words)

  
 Nabbed Nepalese Maoists fear repatriation- The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Matrika Prasad Yadav, the Madhesia face of the Nepalese Maoists, it may be recalled, was nabbed in Lucknow three months ago.
Thursday's catch is the second prized haul of Nepalese Maoists from the Bihar capital.
The Nepalese Maoists are believed to have confirmed links with the Maoist Communist Centre of India (MCCI) and Peoples WAr (PW), albeit with some basic differences in idelogical strategy." The CPN-M believes in democracy," the Maoists are said to have defined their difference with the ultra left in India like the MCCI and PW.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/719830.cms   (374 words)

  
 portland imc - 2004.04.06 - American troops deployed in Nepal against peoples war
Beni District headquarter was taken over by the Maoist PLA for 13 hours on 20 and 21 March.
KSS further said, "The situation has risen for all patriotic forces come on the battlefield to fight against Gyandenra's national betrayal of deploying foreign forces against the justful struggle of the Nepalese people".
In the meanwhile, Girija Prasad Koirala, the President of Nepali Congress, speaking to the BBC Nepali service on 4 April said, "rastrako astitwo mathi sankat pareko chha" (there is crisis over the existence of the state).
portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/04/285145.shtml   (250 words)

  
 RW ONLINE:Nepal: Intense Days of People's War
According to the letter, Nepalese police raided the offices of three publications closely associated with the Maoist movement: the weekly Janadesh, the daily Janadish, and the monthly Dishabodh.
In concert with how "the war on terrorism," is being used to justify all kinds of things, it was said that these helicopters were being supplied to "fight terrorism" in Nepal.
In May 2001, the formation of people's governments were announced in huge mass meetings in districts in the West, where the People's War has been the strongest.
rwor.org /a/v23/1130-39/1132/nepal.htm   (1586 words)

  
 This Site is Operated by the Communist Party of Nepal(Maoist),Central Publicity Section.
People from everywhere joined the huge protesmarch after stopping their personal and official duty.
Despite the excessive use of force by royal security personnel to crackdown on protests, people have intensified their demonstrations across the country.
Greeting on the Occasion of 8th Anneversarry of the People's War in Nepal from the Workers Party of Belgium
www.cpnm.org /new/English/english_index.htm   (858 words)

  
 THE GULF WAR - Letters
For instance in tendering for the construction of a bridge, a Korean company was unable to win the contract even though it bid two billion Hong Kong dollars less than the British company which was finally successful.
For Hong Kong people, what happens after 1997 is not regarded as ‘Chinese take-over’ but ‘return to the motherland’ from which it was segregated after the Opium War.
I would urge people to give donations to some of the smaller and more accountable organizations trying to work with and not on the world’s poorest people.
www.newint.org /issue236/letters.htm   (1705 words)

  
 No people’s war - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The abduction of 700 students and 45 school teachers by Maoists in Nepal indicates how far the rebels have moved away from articulating and defending the interests of the Nepalese people.
The abducted children are indoctrinated with the ‘people’s war’ ideology and trained in the handling of weapons.
They have sought to justify the indoctrination and re-education of civilians as an essential part of the ‘people’s war’ and abductions as part of that strategy.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jan292005/edit2.asp   (445 words)

  
 Roger L. Simon: Confessions of a War Monger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
I will consider the war (the outcome of which is not in doubt) to have been a waste of life, resources and good-will if the weapons aren't there.
So, it's clear that Al-Qaeda thinks that they are in a global war with the US, and with all free societies (as they have published tracts describing how democracy and free-market capitalism in and of themselves are the enemies of Islam), which means that we, de facto, are in a war with them.
Perhaps "war" is a misleading choice of words as it connotes certain attendant assumptions such as enemies that are sovereign states, large-scale battles of conventional armies, a clear beginning and end to hostilties, that are now out-of-date.
rogerlsimon.com /archives/00000474.htm   (14970 words)

  
 AsiaMedia :: NEPAL: We don't export people's war, says Prachanda
AsiaMedia Editor's Note: Reports are unclear as to whether the lifting of the state of emergency on April 30 allows for press freedom, and thus Nepalnews may still be operating under the directives of King Gyanendra.
Prachanda further said: We want formation of a constituent assembly that will allow people to draw their future and destiny themselves.
We do not consider peoples' war as commodity of export and import.
www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=29851   (911 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | South Asia | Nepal's unwinnable war
Very little is reliably known about the Maoists, even six and a half years into what they call their "peoples' war".
Senior military officers say there are between 2,000 and 4,000 well-trained Maoist fighters, known as the movement's "hard core".
Now, Nepalese soldiers fight highly motivated and mobile guerrillas - their own fellow citizens, who can blend into terrain and villages with ease.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/2248978.stm   (618 words)

  
 President, PM greet Nepalese King
Iajuddin expressed his confidence that the warm and cordial relations existing between Bangladesh and Nepal would be further strengthened in the years ahead to the mutual benefit of the two peoples.
He wished good health, happiness of the King and continued peace, progress and prosperity of the friendly people of Nepal.Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia on Sunday felicitated Prime Minister of Nepal Surya Bahadur Thapa and people of the Kingdom on the occasion of the birthday of King Gyanendra Bir Bikran Shah Dev.
In a message to the Nepalese premier, Begum Zia said “I am confident that the cordial and friendly relations which so happily exist between Bangladesh and Nepal would be strengthened further in years ahead for the mutual benefit of our two peoples.”
nation.ittefaq.com /artman/exec/view.cgi/8/3117   (259 words)

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