I received this in the mail and thought its worth sharing:
1. All the private media houses have been virtually
run by military personnels since yesterday. In
Rajdhani daily, one of the vernacular dailies
published from Kathmandu, an army major led about a
dozen military personnels and made the editors to show
the reports to him before it was sent to the press.
"You have written about Girija and Madhav Kumar Nepal
for the last fourteen years. Now is the time for you
to write about His Majesty the king", the major told
one of the
editors.
2. In Jana Astha, a vernacular weekly published from
Kathmndu, the army major sat in a chair in front of
the editor's table and dictated word by word what he
should be writing in the editorial. It was another
thing that the paper could publish an abstract
cartoon, which showed a pigeon escaping from two
hands, effectively meaning the peace will become more
distant.
3. A number of armymen sat through the night in the
office of
Sankhu, a vernacular weekly published from Kathmandu,
even if the publishers and editorial team had decided
not to publish their coming issue.
4. Radio Sagarmatha, the first community radio station
in South Asia, is now being toally run by khaki-clad
and machine-gun-totting Royal Nepal Army officers.
They have not allowed any news, discussions and
regular programs to be broadcast. This morning (Feb
2), they did not even allowed a discussion on women's
health problems of uterus prolapse. The officers said
that no news can be broadcast from now onwards. The
army personnels control the coming and going records
of all the visitors including all the staffs
(photographs attached).
5. In Pokhara, a city 200 kilometers west of
Kathmandu, armymen told local media houses to shut
down "until further notice". "You don't have to
publish news from now onwards. This is the
responsibility of the Kathmandu-based daily papers,"
an army personnel stationed in one of the media houses
was quated as saying to a local reporter of one of
the national vernacular dailies.
6. The king invited all the editors of major national
dailies and 'asked' them to cooperate with his
government.
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