Nepal hasn’t yet fully recovered from weeks of mass political protests due to about decade-long civil war with Maoist rebels before they were finally included in the central government, recent violence in southern Nepal has once again blazed the Himalayan nation and put a serious threat to the integrity and sovereignty of people. About eight people have already been slaughtered and several injured in the ongoing strife for participation in power control.
Feeling outcast and neglected of government development programs and policy-making decisions, Madheshi people of insolvent southern Terai region registered their disconcert and called for a mass protest, which later turned in to a bloody discord, against the newly formed government.
Meanwhile police on conspiring and encouraging the current violence in the Terai region have arrested three former ministers, Kamal Thapa (ex-royally appointed home minister), Badri Prasad Mandal (ex-deputy PM) and Salim Miya Ansari (ex-Forest and Soil Conservation Minister), in King Gyanendraa’s regime that have been detained in some special custody centre in Kathmandu. A number of suspected former ministers and officials are under a microscopic shadowing as well.
Situation in many other adjoining cities also is very grim and out of control, where many media persons and peacekeeping officials after continuous death threats have deserted their workplaces.
The government and former Maoist rebels may have agreed to confer the Madheshis larger political representation in the government policymaking and other constitutional rights, the strife between the rebels and government seem far from over as Biratnagar, the second largest city of Nepal, on Tuesday was put under curfew after the death of an activist in conflicts with law keepers.
Via: BBC
