well done Maoists………thanks once again for showing your real face!!!!!!

UPDATES:
Prashant’s column cited above is now published:
They Do It Again:
http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/2008/12/21/136

OTHER UPDATES:
Widespread outrage
Various press freedom watchdog groups, the UNOHCHR and other human rights activists expressed outrage at Sunday’s attack on Himalmedia in which 12 staff were injured.
http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/2008/12/21/137

UN Condemns Attack at Himalmedia: http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/2008/12/21/135

the maoists need to decide what the want to be: rebels or a political party. this double role playing is not going to help Nepal at all.

attacking journalists like this is not only cowardly but incidents like this should not be allowed to repeat itself.but who decides what can be done when the decision makers are the maoists themselves?

Publishers and Editors Announce Protest

The Media Society and Editors’ Alliance in a joint statement has strongly condemned the attack by Maoist workers on Himalmedia, and launched a protest program beginning with blank editorials in all member newspapers, television and radio news programs on Tuesday.

The protest editorials will appear Tuesday on Annapurna Post, The Himalayan Times, The Kathmandu Post, Kantipur, Nepal Samacharpatra, Rajdhani, Himalaya Times, Image Channel TV, Image News FM, Nepal, Kantipur TV, Kantipur FM, myrepublica.com, dainikee.com, e-Kantipur, Newsfront, Nepali Times and Himal Khabarpatrika.

“This is the first in a series of escalating protests that our media companies will launch if the current organised attacks on us by groups affiliated to the ruling party are not stopped immediately,” the statement said…. http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/2008/12/23/139

Isn’t this worse than King G sending in Army in Editorial rooms? Where is the outrage this time? Or has it taken backseat to fear?

It’s time to be dumb,deaf and blind. PD’s remote control doesn’t work anymore. Welcome to New Nepal!

i am not surprised that this is happening and won’t be surprised if it happens again because for some reasons Maoists want to roll that way..”fear over hope”..job well done u pieces of shit!!!

I am glad that the Maoist cadre did that because the employer of the Himalayan Times can’t dismiss the employees without a solid or a firm reason of misconduct or dishonesty of it’s employees.So tit for tat is the answer for that.I strongly believe it should be like that for few years to come because that’s the way how the bad people should be tamed in Nepal in order to make them a good citizen. Everyone must learn the lessions so those who involved should be punished sending them to jail for few months so that they will learn doing it correct way in the future.Having said that a law must be drafted in favour of the employees so that the employers can’t exploit or sack their employees that easily for minor mistake or so. The Government of Nepal must learn something from the European law and bring it into use with force to bring the deteriorated situation of the country in control.

I wonder if there is any chance of an uprising against the excesses of the Maoists now…

This is labour dispute… it has nothing to do press freedom or freedom of expression…. and beside who is to decide that press freedom is more important than a labour’s right and his dignity????

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@8 & 10 … Here we go again with the blind faith in the Maoists and buying their mis-information campaign. Face it .. Maoists are made up of nothing but goons. They may dangle some carrot in front of less-exposed populace, but they’ll chop your hand off (like Mao did) if you don’t agree with them or their ways. Wake up and look around!

Reading this article reminds me of Nepal returning back to it ‘darkest times’, the times of ‘rana shasan’ where freedom of such expressions was condemned severely. Nepal suffered heavy set back during its suppression of free thoughts/expression. This also, I would like to point out, being the prime reason for the nation’s backwardness on almost every imaginable modern competition.

Maoists have boisterously talked about revolutionising the disease of old Nepal and paving a way for ‘new Nepal’. Personally, I feel like we’re heading for the worse.

Is Samudaya going down? No updates in months. Lack of resource?

Beauty is skin deep and is a combination for looks and your character traits like humility, truthfulness, willingness to help others, a smiling nature, the kindness you have for others, the love you share. Most of the times it is these traits that make you more beautiful than your figure or features.