[Reader-list] Voice from Nepal

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From: ramaleft <ramaleft at yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 10:11:36 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [ZESTCurrent]  Voice from Nepal
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The writer is a journalist working with a leading newspaper in Nepal

Dear friends and well-wishers,

I am using email after three days, now from a diplomatic mission in
Nepal secretly.  As all the telephone lines, internet and other
communication facilities have been cut off, we are experiencing the
stone age in the 21st century.  This has been a complete hell for
journalists. We are not allowed to talk to anyone, political leaders
are either under house arrest or have been detained… There are army
men patrolling the streets.  Even if there is something emergency
happening in a house, there is no way of communicating to others.

In the eyes of a foreign journalist, everything is calm and normal in
the streets. But the weight ofg the undercurrent is unfathomable and
ungauzable.

Ours is the biggest media house in Nepal and it has been encircled by
the army since the king addressed the nation on Tuesday morning,
imposing dictatorial rule.  The army officers scan all the contents
before it goes to the printing or on air.  My hands are shivering
while writing this. (Apologies if there are mistakes.) Please don't
reply me in this ID now unless it's too important.  It's because I
won't be able to check emails for next several days or maybe months.

Our life is in threat and an eerie silence is ruling every corner of
Nepal.  Speaking anything against the monarch or the rulers is
directly inviting an end, or being behind the bars, not less.

I hope my friends outside Nepal help us in this hour of difficulty. 
Please circulate this email among your friends' circle, and please
please please please please try to exert pressure on your government
to bail my country out of the trouble and hardships we are going
through.

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