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From today's Kathmandu Post -- Sorry for the long post, there is no link to this article that I can find.
KATHMANDU, Maoists got further drubbing on the third day of the five-day nationwide bandh as more people defied the strike call and resumed their normal activities. Capitals supermarket and other important business centres opened for the first time during the bandh on Thursday while establishments outside the valley continued with their normal businesses.
More vehicles were seen plying in the major cities and highways around the country. Shops also remained open in many cities as security forces patrolled the streets to thwart Maoist attacks, reports from our correspondents around the country said.
But the rebels also continued with their terror activities. They bombed vehicles, destroyed private and government property and intimidated defying them. The rebels killed at least one person, abducted civilians and destroyed physical infrastructures, mainly in the districts of Teharthum, Mugu, Sindhupalchowk and Taplejung. The remote Mugu districts several parts remain cut off with the district headquarter as terrorist destroyed 3 suspension bridge over Karnali River. They also continued their attack on the Red-Cross property.
The Defence Ministry, meanwhile, said in its routine statement that the security forces shot dead nine rebels in various parts of the country on Wednesday. Two of them were killed in Kanchanpur, and one each in Rukum, Parbat, Myagdi, Sindhuli, Nuwakot, Rasuwa and Kaski districts. Security forces also seized firearms, ammunition, explosives, and Maoist literature in the operations.
Security forces sent a 12-year-old boy, Dhan Bahadur Tamang, back to his home in Dolakha by a helicopter after he recovered from a severe injury in a 3-week long treatment in the Birendra Police hospital.
In the capital city, more shops opened and more means of public and private transportation resumed their services. Earlier on the day, several rallies consisting, businessmen, professionals and people from all walks of life went around the major thoroughfares calling for peace.
A peace rally, organised by the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industries, candidly appealed the shopkeepers, business community and transport entrepreneurs to resume their services. Life in the capital was normal on Thursday, after the government repeated that it would compensate the loss of property.
Shopkeepers of the Bishal Bazaar supermarket in downtown Kathmandu voluntarily opened their shutters on the third day of the much-dreaded nation-wide shutdown. In Thamel, almost 30 per cent of the shops remained open today, said Kirti Bahadur Chand, Chief District Office of Kathmandu.
CDO Chand said that security personnel had been put on high alert.
In Mugu, the rebels destroyed three suspension bridges located in Bhattechaur, Lukta and Shukli areas on Wednesday.
Despite widespread condemnations from humanitarian organisations and International Committee for Red Cross over the vandalism of ambulances by Maoists, the rebels on Wednesday set fire to a Nepal Red Cross Society branch office in Jaljale VDC of Tehrathum district.
KATHMANDU, Maoists got further drubbing on the third day of the five-day nationwide bandh as more people defied the strike call and resumed their normal activities. Capitals supermarket and other important business centres opened for the first time during the bandh on Thursday while establishments outside the valley continued with their normal businesses.
More vehicles were seen plying in the major cities and highways around the country. Shops also remained open in many cities as security forces patrolled the streets to thwart Maoist attacks, reports from our correspondents around the country said.
But the rebels also continued with their terror activities. They bombed vehicles, destroyed private and government property and intimidated defying them. The rebels killed at least one person, abducted civilians and destroyed physical infrastructures, mainly in the districts of Teharthum, Mugu, Sindhupalchowk and Taplejung. The remote Mugu districts several parts remain cut off with the district headquarter as terrorist destroyed 3 suspension bridge over Karnali River. They also continued their attack on the Red-Cross property.
The Defence Ministry, meanwhile, said in its routine statement that the security forces shot dead nine rebels in various parts of the country on Wednesday. Two of them were killed in Kanchanpur, and one each in Rukum, Parbat, Myagdi, Sindhuli, Nuwakot, Rasuwa and Kaski districts. Security forces also seized firearms, ammunition, explosives, and Maoist literature in the operations.
Security forces sent a 12-year-old boy, Dhan Bahadur Tamang, back to his home in Dolakha by a helicopter after he recovered from a severe injury in a 3-week long treatment in the Birendra Police hospital.
In the capital city, more shops opened and more means of public and private transportation resumed their services. Earlier on the day, several rallies consisting, businessmen, professionals and people from all walks of life went around the major thoroughfares calling for peace.
A peace rally, organised by the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industries, candidly appealed the shopkeepers, business community and transport entrepreneurs to resume their services. Life in the capital was normal on Thursday, after the government repeated that it would compensate the loss of property.
Shopkeepers of the Bishal Bazaar supermarket in downtown Kathmandu voluntarily opened their shutters on the third day of the much-dreaded nation-wide shutdown. In Thamel, almost 30 per cent of the shops remained open today, said Kirti Bahadur Chand, Chief District Office of Kathmandu.
CDO Chand said that security personnel had been put on high alert.
In Mugu, the rebels destroyed three suspension bridges located in Bhattechaur, Lukta and Shukli areas on Wednesday.
Despite widespread condemnations from humanitarian organisations and International Committee for Red Cross over the vandalism of ambulances by Maoists, the rebels on Wednesday set fire to a Nepal Red Cross Society branch office in Jaljale VDC of Tehrathum district.
