[APWSLMembers 6] Fw: protest against nepal

[parat Nanakhorn]

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>Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 00:48:14 -0700
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>From: momoko at forumasia.org [mailto:momoko at forumasia.org]
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>Copyright 2005 Nation Multimedia Group
>The Nation (Thailand)
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>July 2, 2005, Saturday
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>HEADLINE: Thai labour activists denounce Gyanendra
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>BYLINE: The Nation.
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>BODY:
>Thai labour activists denounce Gyanendra
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>Some 30 Thai labour activists protested outside the Nepalese Embassy 
>yesterday morning, demanding that King Gyanendra restore constitutional 
>monarchy in the Himalayan kingdom.
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>The protest, timed to coincide with one in Kathmandu, was in solidarity 
>with the Nepalese people, said Somyod Pruksakasemsuk, president of the 
>Alliance of Democratic Trade Unions (ADTU) who spearheaded the protest. "It 
>is urgent that the King restore the constitution," Somyod said.
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>King Gyanendra unexpectedly assumed the throne in 2001 after his brother, 
>King Birendra, and almost his entire family were gunned down in a palace 
>massacre by a disgruntled prince. After appointing a series of prime 
>ministers in a country plagued by endemic poverty and a violent Maoist 
>insurgency, he sacked the government last February, declared a state of 
>emergency, and assumed absolute power in the second royal coup in little 
>over a decade.
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>Chhabi Pandey, regional vice president of the General Federation of 
>Nepalese Trade Unions, was in Bangkok yesterday, and he joined the protest 
>by Thai labour activists outside the Nepalese Embassy.
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>"Things in Nepal are in a very bad shape," he told The Nation. "All sorts 
>of human rights are violated by [those in power]. We're trapped between the 
>Maoists and the government. Both sides want to resolve the issue by the use 
>of gun power, but we don't believe in violence."
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>In a lecture, Mukunda Raj Kattel, programme manager for the Rural 
>Reconstruction of Nepal organisation recently argued that Nepal was 
>entering a new era of uncontrolled militarism.
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>"There is no lesser form of punishment than death in current Nepal's 
>vigilante justice system, which King Gyanendra has mentored and protected," 
>he argued.
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>Pravit RojanaphrukThe Nation
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>LOAD-DATE: July 2, 2005
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>UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies Advocacy Programme
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