The properties within the Narayanhiti Palace have not been calculated as no one was allowed to raise any question regarding the royal family members and their palace before. But people have now begun to raise questions regarding the properties in the palace. It is natural for the people to take interest in their own […]
Criminalization of Politics and Impunity: Chief Human Rights Concerns in Nepal
Although politics is the central nervous system of the overall human society, it becomes the most dangerous thing when it is highly criminalized. Should politics be captured by money-mongering adventurists, nothing in human society will remain within the human ethical framework. Self-destructive thoughts and actions result from criminalized politics. To prevent human politics from becoming […]
LRA Prepares for War, not Peace
– By Katy Glassborow and Peter Eichstaedt in The Hague, with Emma Mutaizibwa in Kampala (AR No. 168, 24-Apr-08) The feared Ugandan rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA, is building up its military capacity at a time when it is supposed to be preparing to disarm under a peace agreement, IWPR can reveal. IWPR has […]
US to Assist Maoists in Nepal
Talking to Nepal’s Speaker of the Interim Legislative Subash Newang, US Ambassador to Nepal Nancy J Powell said on 21 April in Kathmandu that the US Administration would support the forthcoming Maoist-led government of Nepal. The US Administration has so far estimated the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) as a terrorist organization active against democracy […]
The New Media Moguls Talk Politics
On March 28, 2008 at New York University, digital media trailblazers met to talk about how the web is changing American politics. With Jeff Jarvis moderating, Arianna Huffington, Jay Rosen, Micah Sifry and Lisa Tozzi talked about how the 2008 presidential elections have evolved, and what will come next. GroundReport.com produced the event and the […]
Another Anti-Peace Process Massacre in Nepal
The Armed Police under the command of Ex-Police Minister Khum Bahadur Khadka have massacred at least eight citizens on April 8 in Dang, Western Nepal. This is another anti-peace process massacre after the heart-pounding Gaur massacre in March 2007 when 29 civilians were killed in cold blood by Upendra Yadav-led criminal gangs from India and […]
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