Contents

Baburam Bhattarai, Pramod Aryal, Ram Chandra Poudel
Supreme Court, Revive House, Save Country, Hurry
Somnath Ghimire: King G Is Pinochet
Redesigning The Monarchy
Katrina
Messenger Chat With Purandar Ghimire
Protests
Words Matter
Democrats Rebuff Maoists And Monarchists
KC Pralhad: A Misled And Misleading Monarchist
Dialogue Is Give And Take
Nepali Congress Goes The UML Route, Almost
Major Fermentations In The NC And The UML
China: 5000 Years, America: 200 Years
Protests
Narahari Acharya For Nepali Congress President
September 16: Sajha Buzz
NC, UML And A Democratic Republic
Dialogue Is The Democratic Way
Generation Next
Mohi Magne, Dhungro Lukaune
Protests
House Revival Possibilities
Madhesi Hum Lenge Sau Mein Pachas
Prachanda, Order Your Cadres To Live
5 Steps
To Meet Or Not To Meet
Opposition To The Idea Of Meeting With The King
Letter To Sharad Chandra Shaha
Gang Of Four
Protests
Between Drinking Water And Helicopters
You Can Always Trust The Democrats To Be About Two Months Behind Schedule
Hridayesh Tripathy
The Kathmandu Media Ignores The Sadbhavana
Logic For The Maoists
The Democrats
The Two Extremes
The Narahari Acharya Proposal
The King And His Three Years
Somnath Ghimire On Leadership Crisis In Nepali Congress
Narahari Acharya Deserves A Platform
Anatomy Of The Conflict In Pokhara
Protests
Protests
Where I Stand On The Monarchy Question
Girijaspeak: When Republicans Are Royalists
5 Steps To Democracy
Renaming The Blog In Honor Of Gagan's Release
Caste Discrimination Leads To War
Email To Charlie Szrom
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Email From Charlie Szrom
Gagan Thapa Released
The Movement Has Been Gathering Much Momentum
Protests
Proposed Democratic Republican Constitution
Chargesheeting Gagan: This Regime Has Gone Berserk
Protests
Protests
Moriarty Going The Bloomfield Route
Project Take Over Tundikhel: Draft 1
Janata Dal Constitution
Alliance Gathering At Queens Bridge Park
GDF
Melamchi
Protests
Mainstreaming The Monarchy
Amnestry International Report: Nepali Children Caught In Conflict
To: ADHRN
United We Blog Hacked!
Protests
Protests
No, Ambassador, Municipality Polls Are Not An Option
Senator Leahy To US Congress On Nepal
Chitra Tiwari eInterview With Dr. Baburam Bhattarai
BP Koirala: Hoping Against Hope At Sundarijal
ADHRN
Protests
Gagan Thapa Feels Unsafe In Jail
Keith Bloomfield
To: Koirala, Nepal, KC, Pokharel, Tripathy, Mahto And The Rest
Gagan Thapa Case Taken To The United Nations
The Asian Development Bank Report
Protests
2005 Young Republican National Convention (US) Resolution 1 On Nepal
Gagan Thapa Arrested Again
Tom Daschle
UN Security Council Needs To Enforce Human Rights On A War Footing
Royal Family Pictorial
NC UML Pictorial
Deuba Is Not Going Down
Loktantra: Pahilo Patak
Loktantra Launched
South Asia Tribune: What To Believe?
Press Protests
$100,000
Shambhu Thapa On Radio Dovaan
Possible Framework For A Maoist-Democrat Alliance
Kunda Dixit In Jackson Heights
What Has Narayan Gopal Got To Do With It?
Bush's War On Terror And King G
Regime Bent On Repression
Major Student Protests
Political And Military Stalemate: Democrats Stand To Tip The Balance
Adding Video Clips To This Blog
CEO Gyanendra Shaha
Cabinet Expansion: A King Who Will Break, Not Bend
Seize The Moment: Match The Maoists
Democrats, Drop Your Buckets
From The Nepai Language Press Online
Monsoon Break
The Road To The White House Goes Through Nepal
From Li Onesto
Maoist Suicide Bombers In The Offing?
Loktantra: A Magazine In The Offing
Nepali Congress Slumber Party
INSN And Samudaya Blocked In Nepal
Getting Interviewed By A Cornell University Student
Tehelka Interview With Baburam

Contents And Links February-June

Ram Chandra Poudel And The Supreme Court Judges

What has Ram Chandra Poudel got to do with the Supreme Court Judges? Not much personally, but a lot symbolically. Like that first guy on the moon said, "A small step for a man, a big step for mankind."

Activist Judges Could Save The Day

I think these Supreme Court judges should similarly go after the Chief District Officers in Kathmandu valley who basically turned the lifting of the emergency at the end of April into a major league farce and postponed possibilities of national reconciliation. And they should go after the inappropriately named Information Ministry so as to facilitate freedom of press. And they should also address the grievances of the lawyers, their professional kith and kin.

If the Supreme Court justices could thus ensure the basic freedoms and rule of law, they will end up doing more for national reconciliation than any international player could hope to do, and I am talking the major world powers here.

The Supreme Court has to come to the realization that stretching Article 127 like it were a rubber band is not constitutional. Restricting basic freedoms when the country is no longer under emergency rule can not possibly be constitutional. That is precisely why emergencies come with automatic term limits.

P.S Donald Camp, a man whose official title is not a word, not a phrase, but an entire sentence, a run-on one too: the United States' Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs.

In The News

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Nepal releases former deputy PM from detention Sify, India Former deputy prime minister and senior Nepali Congress party leader Ram Chandra Paudel was released from a detention centre in western Nepal on Tuesday on a Supreme Court order .... Paudel, 62, had been held since King Gyanendra sacked the government and seized power on February 1...... He was released in Damauli Tuesday evening by the local court following a Supreme Court order in Kathmandu earlier in the afternoon
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Paudel freed after 5 months Kathmandu Post, Nepal
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Nepal's former deputy PM released from detention Radio Australia, Australia
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Nepal's Former Deputy PM Released SouthAsia Network, Asia
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SC quashes petition against ordinances Kathmandu Post, Nepal .... pronounced that promulgation of an ordinance time and again is "constitutional" in the absence of a functioning parliament...... quashed a writ petition that sought the court to issue an order to the government to stop promulgating ordinances repeatedly to end the present rule through ordinances. The writ petition had also sought nullification of all the ordinances in existence
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NC leader for sweeping reforms Kantipur Narahari Acharya .... on democracy, monarchy, restructuring of the state and internal democracy in the party..... a six-page letter .... "The party must opt for constituent assembly elections, express clear commitment toward federal restructuring of the state, detach its relations with the monarchy and ensure internal democracy in the party" ..... has been in detention since February 1 .... called for statutory changes in the party so as to make it move forward as an absolute democratic political force..... defended his refusal to file a habeas corpus writ at the Supreme Court saying, "The process of releasing political detainees through court orders is part of a conspiracy to legitimize all autocratic decisions made since February 1."
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Return to Pre-1990 unacceptable: US Kantipur Donald Camp .... talking to journalists at a press conference in the capital, prior to the audience with King Gyanendra. .... we continue to see curbs on political freedom and other civil liberties, he said..... "Giving security priority over democracy gives us neither... Democracy is the only idea powerful enough to overcome division, hatred and violence." .... didn't urge Koirala to participate in the municipal elections..... the king should respond to their (parties') initiatives and reach out to them .... "The ruthless violence and terrorism they sow offers nothing to Nepal but destruction and sorrow"
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US delays Nepal arms Calcutta Telegraph, India
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US issues plea on Nepal democracy BBC News
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US urges Nepal's communist rebels to give up violence, join peace ... PeaceJournalism.com
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US Delays Shipment of M-16 Rifles to Nepal to Protest Royal ... DefenseNews.com (subscription)
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Anti-govt guerrillas most serious threat to Nepal: US official People's Daily Online, China
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Centre dispatches Buta to Madhuban Indian Express
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Maoist bomb wounds 16 in western Nepal Reuters AlertNet, UK
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RJD-Congress Responsible for Naxal Menace in Bihar: BJP Patna Daily, India
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Int'l press mission to visit Nepal People's Daily Online, China
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Nepal’s Neighbors: A Study In Contrast Scoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand ....

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Is US containing China? Kathmandu Post, Nepal
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Maoist movement and identity Kathmandu Post, Nepal
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You are reading: The Kathmandu Post >> Editorial Kathmandu Post, Nepal
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NBA should not play into foreign hands: Lawyers Gorkhapatra, Nepal
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Join the Naxal dots PeaceJournalism.com, Nepal
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Police, Maoists exchange fire Times of India, India
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Join the Naxal dots Indian Express, India
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Freedom under absolute monarchy? Economic Times, India
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Indignation as government restricts advertising to "nationalist" ... Reporters without borders, France