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| ruck |
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on 19-Jun-03 09:39 PM
Is this just a media hype or is it actually happening? of all the people, why on earth school students ? whats happening ???.. please help !!
Maoists forcing students to join ranks
By Suvecha Pant & Tejasuee Rajbhandari
KATHMANDU, June 20 - The Maoist-aligned student wing All Nepal National Independent Students Union- Revolutionary (ANNISU-R), is forcing school students of the Kathmandu Valley to take its membership.
The ANNISU-R students storm into the schools and force students of classes eight, nine and 10 take their membership. They dont take the consent of the principal to enter into the classes, and force the students for the membership, said Karna Bahadur Shahi, president of National Private and Boarding Schools Association Nepal (N-PABSAN). If any school tries to resist, they threaten the management.
I feel that we have been pulled into politics forcefully, said a student of Zenith English Boarding School here, who did not want to be named. I showed no interest in taking the
membership, but the revolutionaries took my name and phone number and asked other students to contact them through me.
The schools are helpless, said Umesh Shrestha, president of Private and Boarding Schools Organisation Nepal (PABSON). He also said that PABSON strongly objects such activities by the union.
It is wrong to involve politics in the school level, said Shrestha. Schools students are not mature enough to be a member of any such political organisation.
However, Kabi Gautam, member of ANNISU-R claims that they have not been forcing the students. According to him, they have registered 400 thousand student members. Gautam said that they were trying to bring in 95 per cent of all the students in their union.
Denying the charges that the Maoists activities are hampering the schools of the students, Gautam said that Kathmandu students have not missed any class in rallies and protests, and who ever participated did so willingly.
ANNISU-Rs activities are also annoying the parents. Though college students hitting the streets and involving themselves in political issues is quite common in Nepal and around the world, targeting school students for these purposes is a crime against the young minds, said Indu Shrestha, a parent from Bafal.
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| (*)y(*) |
Posted
on 19-Jun-03 09:44 PM
Catch the next flight to Nepal and come help them if it concerns you that much..You will not get help just by showing concern on sajha..!
~suddenly disgusted!
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| ruck |
Posted
on 19-Jun-03 09:47 PM
If coming to Nepal would help, what are you guys already in Nepal doing about it?????
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| (*)y(*) |
Posted
on 19-Jun-03 10:12 PM
Frankyly, I never said I was concerned about the porblem. And that is not the only problem that we, people living in Nepal, need to take care of.
Again, It wasn't me who started showing concern for those kids..so if you really wanna do something about it..well you know what to do.. other than seeking help from others on sajha!
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| ruck |
Posted
on 19-Jun-03 10:18 PM
If you're not concern and never was.. you're free to ignore this thread... just because we're outside the country, doesn't make us less nepali or does it???
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| Bhunte |
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on 19-Jun-03 10:20 PM
things are really serious in nepal. ....i wonder what would be the consequences for these innocent little kids for being a member of maoist student organization? when police raid maoist's ghar dera and find the list of students, would they be prosecuted? one really has to think of the bigger picture.....
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