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...concerns of a broader range of students than in previous years. This year, “Take Back the Night” will place a special emphasis on international issues like sexual slavery and will stress that sexual assault concerns both men and women, said co-chairs Astha Thapa ’08 and Laura C. Mumm ’09. “Men and women should work together to end sexual violence. It’s seen as a women’s issue, but it’s not,” Thapa said. The program also...
...future state of their nation.“I have been really stressed. Sometimes I call every 30 minutes” despite the ten-hour time difference between Nepal and Cambridge, said Nishchal M.S. Basnyat ’09, an international student from Nepal.Another Nepalese student, Astha Thapa ’07, said she checks news compulsively and thinks of nothing but her home. “It’s hard being far away and following news every couple of hours not knowing what to expect,” she said. “I grew up there...
...began. Most observers believe that the Maoists also played a huge, although mostly hidden, role in making the protests a success, by sending their cadres out onto the streets. "It is hard to believe that all the people out on the streets were members of political parties," says Bhekh Thapa, a former Nepali ambassador to the United States. "It is very likely that Maoist sympathizers added to the numbers of those protesting in many places...
...RESIGNED. SURYA BAHADUR THAPA, 76, Prime Minister of Nepal, after weeks of violent protest in the capital by opposition political parties demanding that he step down; in Kathmandu. Thapa was the second premier appointed by King Gyanendra since the monarch sacked the elected government in October...
...With human-rights groups expressing outrage at the crackdown, the protesters smell victory and are in no mood to compromise, even if the King were to extend an olive branch. "It's time we consider republicanism the core issue of our movement," declared protest leader Gagan Thapa. And so the violent confrontations seem destined to continue. Increasingly, the question is not whether Nepal is becoming a failed state. Rather, it is just how grim that failure might...