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Amnesty condemns
indiscriminate bombings
Int’l organisations flay journo’s
murder
POST REPORT
KATHMANDU, Sept 9 : Amnesty International (AI),
in a statement, today condemned the indiscriminate bombings at several locations in
Kathmandu Valley on Monday in which one 12-year-old schoolboy was killed and several other
people injured.
"We question whether sufficient measures
had been taken to prevent such casualties," the AI statement said.
The AI also condemned the murder of a journalist
and teacher, Gyanendra Khadka, in Sindhupalchowk district last Sunday and the killing of
four other civilians, allegedly by the Maoists, in eastern Nepal over the past week. Two
other organisations – New York based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and
Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSF) – have also condemned the killing. Khadka,
35, was working for Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS), a government news agency.
The AI has also appealed for the release of
several people believed to have been abducted by the Maoists during the last 10 days.
Meanwhile, RSF today expressed shock at the "gruesome murder by Maoist rebels"
of Khadka who they tied to a post and publicly cut his throat.
Khadka was dragged from a village school by the
rebels last Sunday. Khadka is the first journalist to be killed in Nepal since the rebels
pulled out of a cease-fire agreement with the government on August 27.
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