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Journalists Continue To Protest In Kathmandu
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 12, 2013: about two hundred journalists and human rights activists marched through the streets in Kathmandu today protesting the killing of Journalist Dekendra Thapa in Dailekha in 2004 allegedly by the then Maoists for the investigative news he had engaged in. The protestors also opposed the allegedly the prime minister’s directive to stop the investigation into the accused murders in Dailekha but the prime minister has publicly told that he has not done so but the Nepalese media had distorted his statement.
On the sidelines of the CPN-Maoist’s ongoing seventh national congress, the party’s Dailekh committee held a press conference at Kamaladi in Kathmandu today morning and accused the government of violating the Comprehensive Peace Accord by arresting the CPN-Maoist cadres on the charge of killing journalist Dekendra Thapa and urged the authorities to immediately release “all the comrades,” according to THT ONLINE news of today.
On January 6, 2013 the Police had arrested CPN-Maoist Bheri Karnali State committee member Jaya Bahadur Shahi, Harilal Pun Magar, Nirak Gharti Magar, Lakshiram Gharti and UCPN-Maoist cadre Bir Bahadur Khatri on the charge of murdering journalist Thapa in 2004. During the police interrogation, Lakshiram told that the journalist was buried alive after physically torturing him.
“Dailekh people have been stirred up demanding action against the murderers of journalist Dekendra Thapa. London Police recently arrested Nepali Army Colonel Kumar Lama on charges of torture during insurgency period in Nepal. International communities have increased their concern about the fragile condition of Nepal. It is the political parties’ failure to manage the conflict-time cases,” President Yadav told the leaders at the all-party meeting called by him at his residence in Shital Niwas, according to the news posted on thehimalayantimes.com today
The government is planning to challenge the arrest and subsequent trial of Nepali Army Colonel Kumar Lama at the British Court by hiring lawyers having experiences in international laws and courts, according to the ‘HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE’ news posted yesterday. The British Police had arrest Nepali Army Colonel Kumar Lama in Britain on the charge of perpetrating human rights violence in Nepal.
