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Journalists Fleeing Dailekh Allegedly For Threats
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 25, 2013: The CPN-UML has raised serious concerns over the mass displacement of journalists from Dailekh in the wake of death threats issued by the UCPN-Maoist cadres. In a press note, CPN-UML publicity department chief Pradeep Gyawali said that around two dozen journalists fled Dailekh due to the “state-protected” attack, threat and terror against them for seeking action against the murderers of journalist Dekendra Thapa. The CPN-UML condemned vandalism in the office of Tesro Ankha Dainik, a Nepali vernacular published from Dailekh, according to THT ONLINE news of today.
Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Minister for Home Affairs Bijay Kumar Gacchedar said that he has taken the incident and news of displacement of Dailekh-based journalists seriously. Home Minister Gacchedar said that an uneasy situation was created after the investigation into murder of Dailekh-based journalist Dekendra Raj Thapa. He made this remark at a meeting with a team of the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) that had reached the Home Minister to request for creating an environment conducive to work in the district for Dailekh-based 22 journalists displaced from the district today. He said "I request journalists and people not to create an uneasy environment by raising artificial issues as role of journalists is more than that of the government to ease the situation", according to the RSS news posted on thehimalayantimes.com of today. The Deputy Prime Minister wondered why the journalists themselves and the FNJ not providing information about their displacement to the security bodies.
NC has raised serious concerns over the police assaults on and arrests of the campaigners of ‘Occupy Baluwatar’ that have been staging a month-long protest against Violence Against Women (VAW) demanding to book the perpetrators of the VAW and various related incidents at Baluwatar today. In a press note, Secretary Pradeep Parajuli condemned the incident in which elderly people, children, disabled, women, and family members of the victims were manhandled, according to THT ONLINE news of today.
