Organisers of the Peace Rally scheduled for Friday have received threats of bodily harm, one of the organisers said on the condition of anonymity because of fear of further harm.
The banda-opposing rally, due to be held in Basantapur Darbar Square, was organised jointly by the Federation of National Chamber of Commerce, Professionals’ Alliance for Peace and Democracy and a host of others human rights and civil society organisations.
The organisers are currently holding a meeting in Kathmandu to decide whether to postpone the rally after one of the FNCCI members’ commercial property was vandalised by suspected Maoists.
Earlier on Thursday, YCL leader Kul Bahadur Sonam said his party would retaliate against anyone who dared to oppose the strike. “We will send YCL members to the place on incident, take the opponents in control, and make their names public,” he said.
His statement followed reports of locals up in arms against the banda in various parts of the country.
Update: The peace rally will go ahead as planned, it has been confirmed.
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These useful idiots, will never know that their freedom is limited to furthering the Maoist agenda, as before, and not to oppose the Maoist agenda.
Such useful idiots are getting what they deserve, and will be eliminated once total control is achieved by the Maoists.
Please please please don’t postpone!!!!! They will NEVER stop intimidating. We cannot cower at the last minute. The PEOPLE will support you. This is the time to tell the politicians NO BANDH!! ENOUGH is ENOUGH!!!
NEWS FLASH: The peace demo is ON. Spread the word. Can’t let the goons intimidate us!!!
Es pali ko haija Prachanda lai laija!
Yeah we will conduct rally ourselves and we will lead the agenda if at any case The rally is called off. We will go there and support the cause. We are the people of Nepal too. These Maoist cannot use our name in calling people’s movement. We strongly disagree to this Idiotic Agenda of maoist. Helll Yeah to Peace Rally
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i think the peace rally is desperately needed at this point of time. absolute neutral one.. intellectual one.. wise one. it should not react on someone.. its not going to help anyone at this mess. rather, it should be more proactive and positive, addressing our country and its prosperity as a whole, rather than stumbling on surfacing conflicts..
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I would rather see a civil war than to be ruled by Maoists. It was a mistake to allow them all the time and space in the name of “Peace Process”. The Nepal Army should be given all the resources and authority to run over these terrorists.
Somebody should stand on their way and say Enough is Enough. And that is the Time tomorrow.
This is a total bully from the so called maoists. I say take a stand and lend a hand in stopping these people from controlling our lives ! STOP THESE parasites now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The greedy supporters of maoist will continue to ignore injustice as long as they are promised and given materialistic benefits.
It is high time, someone stands against such unlawful practice. Ofcourse, one cannot negotiate against maoist, whose ultimate goal is satta kapza (seizure of all land and properties, which will be divided among their supporters).
But a point has to be made LOUD and CLEAR, that there is an opposition to such unlawful practice from the “common man”. According to Prachanda, a citizen of nepal is one who supports maoist, anything else is considered a perpetrator.
If you are a citizen of nepal, you have every right to speak against anything in a peaceful rally. If the maoist attack such a rally, then there will be consequence.
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A citizen of nepal, whose house has been illegaly invaded by 15 maoists and will continue to stay as long as they wish.
The so-called professionals, civil society, HURON, UNMIN,journalists, intellectuals, big political parties all contributed to what Nepalese general public are experiencing under Maoists anarchy today. They are all answerable to what things have come to pass to this day and further more sufferings in store for innocent, law abiding and peace-loving people of Nepal.
Unite and stand up for your rights and dignity or else you will share the fates of those poor people who are sufferingr under tyrants, despots, dictators and totalitarian systems the world over.
The power lust of one despot has wrought immense turmoil and suffering in Nepal these days and god knows when the hell is going to break loose bringing total catastrophe.
common,look at the clear blue sky and feel the freedom we deserve. This is the time we prove that we are not the puppets in the hand of these megalomaniacs. Lets rally together to break the ill fated illusion of these rotten pumpkins that they controll our lives.
I will be there. These Bahun politicans are ruining our lives.
We are the citizens of nepal, this is our country. We cannot allow terrorists and tyrants intimidate us. ENOUGH with the bullying!!!!
We fully support peace rally!!! These stupid Maoist have to take back their strike.
Nepali people: show that you don’t agree with the intimidation of Maoist! In addition, talk with the people who support the maoists because they don’t understand what they are up to. Bandas are a crime against humanity. These people organising the banda say that they come up for the poor and underpriviliged, but it is these same poor who are starving now, or having to make huge depths in order to get food. The people are abused to create power for some leaders. Opposing the maoist does not mean that you support the present government, but that should all be decided in a democratic way. Now there is no democracy at all. Show your wish for peace!!!
Nepali Janta now knows what we want and no one has rights to conquer as they want to.
Nepal being a country of PEACE with the blessings of Buddha, How can we forget Our OWN HUMANITY!
We want peace and progress in our country and we definitely will prove it too!
WE SUPPORT PEACE RALLY!