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Kathmandu Saturday October 13, 2001 Ashwin 27, 2058.
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Protests held for and against US attacks
KATHMANDU, Oct 12 (PR) – Two different groups burnt the effigies of US
President George W. Bush and suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden in separate incidents
here today.
The Maoist-aligned students’ group today submitted separate protest
letters to the British and American embassies here, demanding both the governments to
immediately halt the ongoing attacks in Afghanistan.
Leaders of the students’ group, All Nepal National Independent
Students’ Union-Revolutionary (ANNISU-R), including its’ president Devendra
Parajuli, vice-president Krishna KC and former vice-president Lekhnath Neupane, submitted
the protest letters to the concerned officials at these embassies.
"Mass killing of innocent people in the name of countering world
terrorism is nothing but another form of terrorism," reads the letter. "Whatever
is the cause of the start of the attacks against Afghanistan’s Taliban regime, we
request the concerned governments to immediately halt the attacks."
The submission of the protest letters was followed by a protest rally that
started in the premises of the Amrit Science College, Thamel.
In another incident, a group of Sadhus burnt the effigy of Osama bin Laden,
the prime suspect in the attacks on twin towers of World Trade Centre in New York and
Pentagon in Washington. The US-led allied force is presently pounding various targets in
Afghanistan in retaliation to the attacks in the US.
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