http://www.hindu.com/2006/04/08/stories/2006040806211200.htm

Anti-monarchy front plans rallies

Special Correspondent

To mobilise support of migrant Nepalese

KOLKATA: The recently-formed Anti-Monarchy United Democratic Front, India a forum of various organisations of the Nepalese in the country will be holding rallies in four metros on April 9 in support of the pro-democracy movement in Nepal.

Leaders of various Indian political parties, including the Communist Party of India (Marxist), are likely to attend the rallies.

The rallies will coincide with the conclusion of the four-day strike in Nepal, called in protest against King Gyanendra's rule, by political parties backing the anti-monarchy cause.

Understanding renewed

Leaders of the Front formally renewed their understanding with the Nepali Maoists on March 18 for taking forward the movement for the "struggle against the monarchy and the setting up of a constitutionally-elected democratic republic in that country," founder-member of the Front, Laksman Pant, told The Hindu on Friday.

The initial 12-point understanding between the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and seven parties belonging to that country's political mainstream, including the Nepali Congress and the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), to launch a joint movement against the monarchy in Nepal and in support of a constitutionally-elected democratic government, was signed in November, 2005.

The second understanding last month came in the wake of severe repression by the Nepalese Government and its Army on anti-monarchy activists and "a noticeable regression in the movement following warnings from the United States Government to the political parties that those joining hands with the Maoists would be branded as terrorists by Washington," Mr. Pant said.

"We are mobilising the support of the migrant population here for the struggle against monarchy in Nepal and are in touch with leaders of the different political parties fighting for the cause of democracy in that country," Mr. Pant said.

Stop repression: CPI(M)

Special Correspondent writes from New Delhi:

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday said India should demand that King Gyanendra's Government stop immediately all repressive actions, "failing which steps should be taken to make the King realise that he cannot continue with his present course of action."

The CPI (M) Polit Bureau denounced the crackdown on the nationwide strike.

"The repression unleashed by the King will not deter the popular movement to end his authoritarian rule," it noted.

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KATMANDU, Nepal Three demonstrators were reported wounded today during a fourth day of protests against the monarchy in Nepal.

A government official says it happened in the southern part of the country, about 90 miles southwest of Katmandu, when pro-democracy activists charged police.

The official says the protesters also burned at least a half-dozen government offices. It was the biggest of the anti-monarchy demonstrations so far.

A rally in Katmandu was postponed after the king imposed an all-day curfew and other violators shot on sight.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0408nepal0408.html

Nepal's king declares curfew before rally

Binaj Gurubacharya Associated Press Apr. 8, 2006 12:00 AM

KATMANDU, Nepal - Nepal's king imposed a curfew and snapped mobile-phone links today, hours before thousands were to assemble in an anti-monarchy rally billed as the culmination of a four-day general strike.

A government order broadcast on state-run Radio Nepal said violators would be shot. A government notice said the curfew would be imposed from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. in Katmandu and two suburbs.

Protesters postponed a demonstration planned for today after the king imposed the curfew and ordered violators shot on sight.

Khadga Prasad Oli, deputy leader of the Communist Party of Nepal, said the protesters would try to hold the rally on Sunday.

The four-day strike that ends Sunday is aimed at pressuring King Gyanendra to give up the direct rule that he assumed last year after firing the prime minister.

It is the first time that a political protest has the backing of the armed Maoist rebels, who are separately fighting an insurgency against the king's rule and formed a loose alliance with the political parties in December.

The government it had information that the rebels would try to infiltrate the political rallies and wage terror attacks against government targets.

In southwestern Nepal, government troops fought communist rebels today.

In the first attack, rebels shooting flares in the air attacked two army bases and a police post at Butwal, 175 miles from the capital, Katmandu.

There were reports of rebels bombing government buildings and attacking the local jail in the nearby town of Taulihawa , said Gangadutta Awasti, chief government administrator in the area.

On Friday in Katmandu, police using batons and tear gas battled stone-throwing students in narrow alleys. About 750 pro-democracy advocates have been arrested so far.

"The government is using minimum force to control the situation," Home Minister Kamal Thapa said.

A post office in Katmandu was set on fire Friday, and students at the capital's Tribhuwan University ransacked the dean's office and briefly held several officers hostage.

The hundreds of students were joined in protests by workers, professionals and business owners, in what the opposition said was a sign of building momentum against the king.

Mobile phone links have been shut down in previous protests as well as a way to deter strike organizers, and protest organizers said the curfew order and other restrictions show the government is nervous.

In New Delhi, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, Richard Boucher, called Gyanendra's assumption of absolute power "a travesty."

"There is no reason to support the king," he said. "The only thing he needs to do is restore democracy."

Gyanendra says he was forced to seize power in February last year because of the growing communist insurgency, which has killed about 13,000 people since 1996.


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