Fri 7 Apr 2006
At least 150 anti-government protesters have been arrested in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, as a campaign against King Gyanendra gathered pace. Fierce clashes have taken place between the police and demonstrators defying a government ban on political rallies. The government of Nepal’s King Gyanendra has come under widespread international criticism over its crackdown on the opposition.Hundreds of protesters have been arrested over the past two days. Police fired teargas shells and used batons to break up the protest rallies as angry opposition activists and students took to the streets shouting pro-democracy slogans. They damaged government vehicles and set fire to a post office, reports say. “This is the final push of the movement. The days of the king are numbered,” Sova Sapkota, an activist with the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist), was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency. “We will continue to defy the ban order,” she said. The BBC’s Sushil Sharma in Kathmandu says normal life has been crippled in the city as the opposition-led strike entered its second day. Reported by BBC News
As this report says, much of the city is in chaos. All transportation has been shut down and all business are closed, but not to worry about me. I live away from all the violance and protests. In the last two days we have seen nothing unusual in our neighborhood. Things can always change, but we know that God has His hand in all this…..He has His hand in all things.
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April 7th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
I was listening to a sermon the other day in which the pastor made the off hand comment that it often seems that the oppression is the worst right before deliverance. He was talking about God being “God Almighty” (he was doing a series of the names of God) for the Israelites. Just before they were delivered, their oppression was the heaviest. Make bricks with no straw. I hope the deliverance is coming soon for Nepal.