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> Ich glaube Herr Debuck liest keine nepalesischen Zeitungen oder war seit langen nicht mehr in Nepal.
> Hier in Kathmandu ist alles ruhig, auf den Trekkings AUCH in abgelegenen Gebieten ist kein Problem zu sehen f�r den Touristen, ...
Namaskar.
Ludwig Debuck LIEST nepalesische und internationale Zeitungen. Fast taeglich.
Ausserdem stehe ich auch zu den Aeusserungen des AUSWAERTIGEN AMTES, die ich zu Beginn meines Beitrags ausdruecklich erwaehnt habe. Dies zur Orientierung fuer Reisende.
Was ist dagegen einzuwenden? - Darin wird ausdr�ecklich auf die augenblicklichen Verhaeltnisse hingewiesen und erwaehnt, es sei 'ruhig' etc.
Auuserdem erhalte ich mehrmals woechentlich Infos aus Kathmandu. It's possible now by www.
Anbei ein Artikel, in welchem sich der Autor ueber die Situation Gedanken macht.
Was wohl weniger an die Oeffentlichkeit dringt, ist vielleicht auch Kathmanduities oder vor Ort ansaessigen 'Westlern' nicht immer bewusst genug. - Manche sind im Hinblick auf das, was wirklich gepalant ist, bisher noch zu unsensibel - sagen Nepalis.
Mich haben die ueber 1 700 Toten in diesem unsinnigen PEOPLES WAR nicht kalt gelassen.
Internationale - in Nepal ansaessige Beobachter - sehen den Einsatz der Armee mit Sorge.
- Vielleicht waere zu diesem Thema auch ein Beitrag im FORUM HIMALAYA sinnvoll; am besten auf Englisch. http://www.forumhimalaya.cool.am
Liebe Gruesse und gute Wuensche nach Kathmandu.
NAVYO (Wir haben uns vor zwei Jahren einmal Naehe Hanuman Dhoka getroffen)
LUDWIG
Hier der Artikel.. ein wenig lang. Can you agree?
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Nepal mobilises army for war with Maoist rebels
By Peter Popham in Kathmandu
21 May 2001
There is a large new signboard at the entrance to Thamel, the quarter of Kathmandu crammed with shops devoted to gratifying the young foreign backpackers' every whim. "Your security is our dearest motto," it says.
It's a nice thought, but an empty boast. Until now no one has thought to put it to the test. But beyond this enchanted zone, with its German bakeries, American diners and Guinness pubs, Nepal is an increasingly terrified country, frozen in the headlights of an ultra-left insurgency that is gaining strength and confidence by the week.
One year ago, the rebellion by the Marxist Party of Nepal (Maoist), which broke out in 1996, was, from the standpoint of the Kathmandu valley, a faraway rumble, a problem in the impoverished west and north where central government control has always been weak. Now all that has changed.
In the past week, at least four policemen, some of whom were tortured first, have been killed and several others injured; four forestry officials have been abducted, and a group of teachers, lawyers, industrialists and factory managers were kidnapped, taken by bus to a Maoist-controlled village and put through a re-education programme. Gold, silver and guns have been looted; 21 teenagers were reported to have run away from home to join the rebels, and a student group allied to the Maoists forced all the country's 8,000 private schools to shut down.
I have some long term savings that I don't want poloniex api documentation in my calculations. Something, it seems, has got to give, and in the coming weeks, for the first time since the rebellion started five years ago, the government is sending the army to particularly disturbed districts to confront the insurgents.
Until now the only resistance has been by the police, who are poorly armed and motivated. The rebels' weapons are even more primitive, but they have prevailed through force of numbers and the guerrillas' traditional advantages of stealth, cunning, fear and popular support. From now on it is going to be a different game.
But in parts where they are strong, the Maoists are daring the authorities to do their worst. At a rally on Saturday in the district of Rolpa, more than 200km (125 miles) west of Kathmandu, one of the areas into which the Royal Nepal Army is scheduled to march a few days from now, the Maoists announced to thousands of villagers that they were creating a "people's local government" for the district. Speaking at the rally, a self-styled "election commissioner"told a local reporter that the community had elected village and ward committees for Rolpa's 51 villages in elections held in April.
Santosh Buda, head of the "committee in charge of local government", said: "The ruling reactionary [local] government was an illegitimate one, and our government has been declared today to topple it ... Our party is in war phase now, that is why it appears to be dangerous. But our government will help make constructive works and projects, too."
Nepal's parliamentary democracy is only 11 years old, and has stumbled from crisis to crisis in that time. The Prime Minister, Girija Prasad Koirala, embroiled in corruption allegations concerning a controversial aircraft lease, faces demands to quit from every side. With parliament stalled for three months by opposition protest, Nepalis despair of decisive action from the government to stem the crisis.
The only glimmer of hope lies in talks. A committee of human rights activists is trying to get them started, and one of its leaders said last week that the Maoists have sent a letter expressing willingness to begin negotiations.
SRC: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=73617
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