Rajendra’s Blog

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वाटरगेट काण्डपछि सत्ता छोड्न बाध्य अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति रिचर्ड निक्सनका बारेमा एउटा ठट्टा थियो । निक्सन भन्थे रे, ‘यदि दुईवटा गल्तीले समेत एउटा ठीक परिणाम दिएनन् भने तेस्रो गल्ती पनि गरिहेर्नु पर्छ ।’
अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति जर्ज डब्लु बुसले शनिबार आफूलाई निक्सनका असल उत्तराधिकारी सावित गरे तर इराक मामिलामा उनको तेस्रो गल्ती यति भयानक थियो कि संसारले केहीबेर विश्वाससम्म गर्न सकेन । तर जसै संसारभरिका टेलिभिजनका पर्दामा आफ्नै पासो मिलाइरहेका सद्दाम हुसेनलाई देखाइयो, अविश्वास गर्न केही बाँकी थिएन । शनिबार झिसमिसेमै जर्ज डब्लु बुसले सद्दाम हुसेनलाई मात्र होइन, अमेरिकी स्वाधीनता संग्रामबाट सूत्रबद्ध न्याय, स्वतन्त्रता र भ्रातृत्वको नारालाई पनि फाँसी दिइसकेका थिए । (more…)

By BRIAN COBB

On 3 April, I flew to Nepal to give the Basic Trauma Life Support course to a group of student volunteers and offer my skills as an experienced emergency physician during a nationwide strike called by the political parties to protest the king’s autocratic rule. 

On 11 April we were in Gongabu. At around 1:30 PM, the protestors were chanting and burning effigies, but no violent acts. Suddenly a large number of club-swinging policemen descended on the crowd, who were savagely beaten as they fled. Two men, one elderly, came to us with bleeding head wounds. As we began to tend to them, SSP Madhav Bahadur Thapa, who was in charge, beat the injured men and knocked them to the ground, then beat one of the volunteers and me. I suffered injuries to my neck, back and right arm. We then saw him gouge a young man in the right eye with the end of his lathi. On 12 April we spent most of the day treating leftover injuries from the day before, but at 4 PM I was approached in Gongabu by an SSP and Inspector without nametags who told me to come to their office to talk to the IGP. Our driver, Dr Hensel from Germany, a Nepali doctor and 5 Nepali student volunteers followed a large, gray police truck to the armed police headquarters, where we were told to wait in the lobby. (more…)