General strike will continue: Parties

April 12, 2006
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The seven party alliance (SPA) has said the ongoing nationwide general strike will continue on Thursday as well.

A meeting of the Central People’s Movement Coordination Committee of the SPA held in Kathmandu on Wednesday announced to carry on with the general strike, urging the general people, political activists and the professional groups to join in the pre-scheduled protest rallies against ‘royal autocracy’.

A press release issued after the meeting said the general strike was successful despite firings of bullets and tear gas shells, baton-charging and arrests.

The meeting also declared Bishnu Pandy, a pro-democracy activist who was shot dead during a protest rally Parasi Bazaar of Nawalparasi this afternoon, a martyr and condemned the police killing.

The seven parties have been carrying out nationwide general strike since last Thursday in which at least five people have been killed, hundreds injured and over 1000 arrested. nepalnews.com mk Apr 12 06