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Dozen killed in army firing in Nagarkot


KOL Report

KATHMANDU, Dec 15 - At least 11 people were killed in army firing at Chundevi temple in Nagarkot, eastern outskirts of Kathmandu around 11:30 pm Wednesday night.
The Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) confirmed the incident Thursday morning and said that details were still awaited.

"The incident is very unfortunate," an RNA official told Kantipur Online.

"Casualties have been reported but we don't know the exact numbers yet," he added.

Meanwhile, state-owned radio Nepal quoting RNA spokesman Umesh Bhattarai this morning confirmed the incident.

""We are investigating the Nagarkot incident and will let the public know about it," the Radio Nepal quoted Bhattarai as saying.

details to follow. (dds)

राजा ज्ञानेन्द्र आफ्नो अल्पदृष्टि लाई धिक्कार्दै सोच्दै होला -- साला अस्ति मन्त्रीपरिषद पुन:गठन गर्दा रक्षा मन्त्री नराखेर बिजोग भयो। नभए अहिले रक्षा मन्त्रीलाई राजिनामा गराएर नैतिकता र सुशासनको भाषण ठोक्न पाईन्थ्यो। अहिले मन्त्रीपरिषदको अध्र्यक्ष आफै, रक्षा आफै संग, सेनाको अधिपति आफै। बर्बाद होला जस्तो छ।
"ए गिरी ! ए बिष्टे !! नैतिकताको नया परिभाषा लेख त एउटा।००००० के रे ? लेख्न आएन रे ?! १६ओं शताब्दितिरको कुनै इतिहास बाट चोरेर लेखे भइहाल्यो नि! मुर्खहरु !! "

They said Bashu Dev Thapa shot himself he had two gun shot wounds one in his chest and other on the head, now how is this possible?? May be hmmmm may be he first shot himself in the head and later went for the control shot in the chest OR may be he first shot himself in the chest and a control shot at the back of his head just to make sure that he doesn't survive?

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Army Men Beat up Students in Bharatpur

THT Online
Narayangarh, December 17

Army personnel beat up the students entering the premises of the Birendra Multiple Campus, Bharatpur at noon on Friday. The students had been demonstrating against the massacre of 12 civilians by the army personnel at Chihandanda, Nagarkot, in Bhaktapur.
Campus Chief LB Chhetri said that almost 200 soldiers had entered the campus premises after encircling the campus � before beating up the students. Six students were seriously injured in the incident, while six others were taken away by the army personnel. Terming the indiscriminate beating of students inside the campus premises "an act of cruelty," Chhetri said: "We condemn such acts. This should not have happened." According to the police, 15 policemen and nine students were injured in the scuffle following the students' demonstration. Police said they had arrested 22 students from the demonstration. The students torched a motorcycle at Pulchowk of Narayangarh, police said. At Pulchowk and Shahid chowk of Narayangarh, the police and the demonstrators clashed throughout the day, reports said. The police had to use teargas to tone down irate student mobs. Lieutenant Colonel Santosh Dhakal of the RNA's First Rifle Battalion said the army retaliated after some people in students' uniforms pelted stones from the Birendra Multiple Campus gate at the Barrack. "Nobody has been held under army custody. We just assisted the police," he added.

Before Nagarkot too, similar incidents happened mnay times;

- Doramba (18 alleged Maoists killed in cold blood by the army)
- Doti (Four students among 10 killed in indiscriminate firing inside a school by the army)
- Balaju, Kathmandu (Youth killed when an irate army man shoots him)
- Hetauda (Bus helper killed in �gaccidental�h firing by another army man)
- Chisapani, Khotang (Three, one of them teacher, killed by army for no fault)
- Sarlahi (Army batters two persons, forces them to dig their own grave and after pushing them into it, shoots them)
- Pandaun (Royal Nepal Army (RNA) orders villagers to vacate their homes within a week after clash with Maoists)
- Bhairahawa (Indiscriminate and paranoid firing by RNA after the Maoists opened fire and fled)
- Pokhara (Indiscriminate firing similar to that in Bhairahawa kills a student)

All these incidents have occurred since August 17, 2003

(Courtesy of the article by DAMAKANT JAYSHI in KOL)

This used to happen in panchayat days (and before that too) too. Army would go and kill peple indiscriminately in cultural programs. People haven't forgotten Piskar and Chhintang. And there were massive army operations in Rolpa and Rukum too.

Rise of maoist movement was fueled by these army operations.