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Katmandu Protests: 9/12/05

Royal Nepal Army Opens Fire During Student Protests in Katmandu

By the Collective Campaign for Peace

Katmandu, September 12, 2005- Student organizations affiliated to an alliance of seven political parties continued protests against the Royal Regime at various colleges in Katmandu and Lalitpur. In Mahendra Ratna Education College, Katmandu, approximately one dozen tear gas shells were fired by the army inside the college premises. Stones were also thrown by both protestors and police that led to injuries on both sides.

An eyewitness reported to the COCAP Human Rights Observer's team that army personnel fired two dozens bullets in the air from M16 rifles to threaten the protestors. When an army vehicle passed by the site of clash, students in retaliation smashed the glass of the vehicle with a stone. Patan Multiple College also remained tensed in the afternoon during the student protest. Student Unions' protests against the King's autocratic regime are thriving.


Clashes with police are resulting in hundreds of arrests in Katmandu.

A group of students affiliated to Nepal Student Union, locked themselves in the Office of the Vice Chancellor at Tribhuwan University (TU) Central Office today. Police arrested six students during the incident. They were demanding immediate release of students arrested on September 9, 2005 from Sankar Dev Campus, Kathmandu under the charge of participation in the student protest.

Names of students arrested in TU:

1. Pranay Singh Munna
2. Yuvaraj Panday
3. Jeevlal Kharel
4. Shiva Kumar Yadav
5. Narayan Balayar
6. Prakash Khanal

Subsequently, following two students also have been arrested from the boy's hostel of Tribhuwan University. They were being beaten deliberately even after under control.

1. Tanka Neupane
2. Suman Bhandari

Those nine students who have been arrested on September 9, 2005 from Sankar Dev Campus, Kathmandu, have been released on ordinary bail today early evening.

Names of the students released on bail:

1. Kamal Dhodari
2. Prabin Lal Amatya
3. Santosh Pandit
4. Harish Chandra Bhandari
5. Surya Bahadur Thapa
6. Niranjan Shedain
7. Bal Bikram Thapa
8. Rajan K.C
9. Rupesh Khadki