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शिविरहरूमा अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय अपांगता दिवस पालन

झापाका सातवटा शरणार्थी शिविहरूमा गत शुक्रवार १९ औं अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय अपांगता दिवस पालन गरियो । कारितास नेपालअन्तर्गत क्रियाशील डिस-एबिलिटी केन्द्रले विभिन्न कार्यक्रमका साथ सो दिवस मनाएको हो । सो क्रममा गोल्धाप शिविरमा ‘‘अपांगहरू पनि सपांगसरह योग्य छन्’’, जस्ता नाराहरू लेखिएका प्लेकार्डसहित प्रदर्शनसमेत गरिएको थियो । सो प्रदर्शनमा करिब ५०० शरणार्थीले भाग लिएका जनाइएको छ ।

(गोल्धापबाट तिलक निरौलाको सहयोगमा ) 

सर्वोच्चद्वारा सरकारी निर्णयस्थगनको आदेश

नेपालको सर्वोच्च अदालतले सन् २००१ मा भूटान पिपल्स पार्टीका तत्कालीन अध्यक्ष राजकुमार बुढाथोकीको हत्यामा संलग्नहरूबारे मुद्दा फिर्ता लिने नेपाल सरकारको निर्णयलाई तत्काल कार्यान्वयन नगर्न आदेश जारी गरेको छ ।  

बुढाथोकी हत्याकाण्डबारेको मुद्दा फिर्ता लिने सरकारी निर्णयविरुद्ध वर्तमान पार्टी अध्यक्ष बलराम पौडेलको रिट-निवेदनमा माथि विचार गर्दै यसको टुंगो नलागेसम्म मुद्दा खारेजीसम्बन्धी सरकारी निर्णय स्थगन गर्न सर्वोच्चका न्यायाधीश प्रकाश वस्तीको एकल इजलासले आदेश दिएको हो ।

रिजालद्वारा एसएएचआर-लाई भूटानशाखा खोल्न आग्रह

एउटा बलियो निकायले निरंकुश गतिविधिको निरीक्षण गर्न नथालेसम्म भूटानको तानाशाही सरकारले मानवाधिकारको उल्लंघन जारी राख्ने बताउँदै निर्वासित भूटानी मानवाधिकारवादी नेता टेकनाथ रिजालले दक्षिण एशियाली मानवाधिकार गठबन्धन एसएएचआर-लाई भूटानमा आफ्नो शाखा खोल्न आग्रह गरेका छन् ।  

नेता रिजालका अनुसार  एसएएचआर-ले भूटानका सम्बन्धमा  धेरै सम्मेलन र प्रकाशन गतिविधि सञ्चालन गरेको छ । त्यसर्थ अब यसले भूटानमा मानवाधिकार उल्लंघनबारे निरीक्षण गर्न शाखा कार्यालय खोल्ने अनुमतिका लागि पहल गर्नसक्छ ।

गत शनिवारदेखि काठमाडौंमा शुरु भएको ‘‘दक्षिण एशियाका लागि चुनौतीहरूः मानवाधिकार र प्रजातन्त्र’’, नामक तीनदिने क्षेत्रीय सम्मेलनमा आफ्नो तर्फबाट कार्यपत्र प्रस्तुत गर्दै नेता रिजालले  भने, ‘‘मानवाधिकार र प्रजातन्त्रको सवालमा भूटानले अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय समुदायको आँखामा छारो हाल्दैछ ।’’

Support urged, funeral rites on Tuesday

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The funeral processing of late Menuka Poudel, who recently committed suicide in Arizona, is scheduled for this Tuesday in a nearby funeral home.

Our correspondents in Phoenix informed that the funeral rites will be performed in accordance with the Hindu tradition.

Meanwhile, a bank account has been set up in the name of late Menuka’s mother to make out-of-State financial support to reach the bereaved family in a fast-track procedure.

Those who wish to contribute their financial support to the bereaved family are requested to contact [email protected] to know the details of the bank account. 

Doctors at the St Joseph Hospital had formally declared Menuka, 20, dead at 6:30 pm local time, Wednesday. She was rescued from her apartment when she was found hanging on a scarf to commit suicide on Tuesday afternoon.

The family that originally hailed from Dagana of Bhutan was shifted to Phoenix two months ago under the third country resettlement program. Still, two members of the family reside in Beldangi-II sector A-1, waiting for their relocation.

Meanwhile, a confidential source on condition of anonymity, informed BNS that those two members who are still in camps are likely to be resettled to join their bereaved family members in Arizona within these few days.

Until the filing of this report, the cause behind her suicide is yet to be known.

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EDITOR’S NOTE
The details of the bank have been withheld citing its sensitivity, especially following some valuable, timely alerts from our valued readers. It was not intentionally mentioned earlier but it appeared online with some technical failures and our editorial team members were not immediately available to work on it. Thanks to those who shot their timely alerts: Errors regretted!

– Editorial Board, BNS

शिविरबाट विद्युत लाइन हटाउन माग

भुटानी शरणार्थी शिविरभित्र वितरित विद्युतीय लाइन काट्न पीडितहरुले नेपाल विद्युत प्राधिकरण शाखा कार्यालय, दमकमा ज्ञापन पत्र बुझाएका छन् । विद्युत सेवाबाट बञ्चित दमक नगरपालिका वडा नं. ३ र ५ का पीडितहरुले ज्ञापन पत्र बुझाएका हुन ।
शरणार्थी शिविरका केही कार्यलयहरुमा विद्युतीय विस्तारपस्चात बेलडाँगी, भालुकुँडी, सूर्योदय टोल, पिपिरे टोल, बेलडाँगी २ बजार र बाघखोरका स्थानीयले प्राधिकरणसँग विद्युत लाइन हटाउन माग राखेको, झापाबाट संचालित तितोपीरोमिठो डटकमले उल्लेख गरेको छ ।
पीडितहरुले चाँडै शरणार्थी वस्तीमा वितरित विद्युत लाइन नकाटे कडा आन्दोलनमा उत्रिने चेतावनी समेत दिएका छन् ।

ज्यान लिनेलाई ३० दिनको जेलसजाय

अमेरिकाको जर्जिया राज्यको एटलान्टामा भूटानी शरणार्थी बालिकाको सडक दुर्घटनामा ज्यान लिने चालकलाई ३० दिन थुनामा राख्ने स्थानीय अदालतले यसै बुधबार आदेश दिएको छ ।
सजाय पाउने चालकले हाँकेको सवारीले ठक्कर दिँदा तेस्रो मुलुक पुनर्वाश कार्यक्रमअन्तर्गत एटलान्टा पुगेको १२ दिनमै ६ वर्षीय सुकमाया मगरको गत अगस्तमा ज्यान गएको थियो । अदालतले चालक ग्रेगोरी आर्मडको चालक अनुमतिपत्र पनि एक वर्षका लागि खारेज गरेको बुझिएको छ ।
अमेरिकामा सडक दुर्घना गरेपछि नभागी नियमअनुसार सुरक्षा निकायमा जानेले कम सजाय पाउँने प्रवाधान रहेकाले र चालकले पीडित परिवारसंग माफी मागेकाले उनलाई अदालतले थोरै सजाय तोकेको थाहा भएको छ ।

Int’l day of disabled persons observed

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The 19th International Day of People with Disability was observed in all seven camps of Jhapa and Morang districts, Friday.

The Disability Center under Caritas Nepal organized various programs in each camp to mark the day of disabled people.

The center in coordination with various camp stakeholders organized a rally in Goldhap camp this morning. Around, 500 people took part in the rally.

The rally displayed various placards with slogans related to disabilities – disabled people are equally capable as others and promote the rights of disabled, among others.

This day is a United Nations sanctioned day that aims to promote an understanding of people with disability and encourage support for their dignity, rights and well-being.

The day also seeks to increase awareness of the benefits of the integration of people with disability in every aspect of political, social, economic and cultural life.

The slogan for this year’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which is celebrated on December 3 every year, is, “Keeping the promise: Mainstreaming disability in the Millennium Development Goals towards 2015 and beyond”.

Contributed by Tilak Niraula for BNS from Goldhap

Child killer to serve 30 days in US prison

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A Covington man charged with the 2009 death of a 6-year-old pedestrian in Clarkston will serve 30 days in jail according to a plea agreement reached with the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office.

Gregory Armwood /AJC

Gregory Armwood was sentenced on a misdemeanor count of vehicular homicide in DeKalb State Court after he admitted to illegally passing a stopped MARTA bus and striking and killing Suk Maya Mager, who was crossing Ponce de Leon Avenue with her family, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) reported on Wednesday.

The family was shifted to Atlanta from Timai camp in Nepal less than two weeks before the ill-fated incident of August 12, 2009. The child was starting school the next day. (Also Read this )

In addition to the 30 days in jail, Armwood will also serve probation for a year and have his driver’s license suspended during that time, added AJC.

Armwood, who had passed on a double line, was ticketed and released. After the girl died, he turned himself in to face charges of vehicular homicide and failure to exercise due care.

During his plea, Armwood turned from the judge to face the Mager family and express his remorse, according to the report.

“It’s something I have to live with for the rest of my life,” said Armwood, a Desert Storm and Desert Shield Army veteran who works in security. “I have asked God for forgiveness and I ask that someday you also can forgive me,” the AJC wrote.

The report quoted the mother of the girl, Rupa Mager, as saying to the court, “I cried a lot over missing my daughter; still I am crying.” While, father Moti Mager expressed, “I request only to the government that justice be provided me.”

The report further said that the family did not comment on the plea arrangement. Assistant solicitor general Philip Catalano said the deal acknowledged the crash was an accident and not intentional or the result of impaired driving.

One commits suicide in AZ

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Doctors attending one resettled Bhutanese, 20-year-old Menuka Poudel at St Joseph Hospital formally declared her dead at 6:30 pm local time, Wednesday. She was rescued from her apartment when she was found hanging on a scarf to commit suicide on Tuesday afternoon.

Though doctors pronounced her dead only a day as she was kept in ‘life support’, friends and family members claimed she breathed her last in her apartment itself.

The family is yet to receive the dead body from the hospital.

Meanwhile, the Bhutanese Community in Arizona is holding an emergency meeting tomorrow to discuss about the kind of supports the Poudel’s family needs from the Bhutanese community and the funeral procedures to be adopted.

The family that originally hailed from Dagana of Bhutan was shifted to Phoenix two moths ago under the third country resettlement program. Still, two members of the family reside in Beldangi-II sector A-1, waiting for their relocation.

“We have done everything. Now we are waiting for our flight schedule from International Organization for Migration,” her brother, Hari Poudel, told Bhutan News Service from Beldangi-II over phone.

Meanwhile, following the suicide of their daughters, parents have refused to go to the same apartment, which is currently locked by security for investigation, it is learnt.

Currently, aged Poudel couple and a daughter are taking shelter in one of their relative’s apartment until their resettlement agency finds the next apartment.

The cause behind her suicide is yet to be investigated, family sources informed.

With inputs from Nandita Khanal from Arizona

हिउँको रमाइलोले पिरलो नहोस्

नेपालको गर्मी भूभाग, त्यसमाथि शिविरको बाक्लो बसाइमा कष्टकर जीवन भोग्दै आएका भूटानीहरु पुनर्वाशपछि आजभोलि बिभिन्न देशका शाहरहरुमा निक्कै फराकिलो ढंगले हिँड्डुल गरेका पाइन्छन् । हिजो-आज यूएसए, क्यानाडातिर जताततै हिउँ खसिरहेको छ । प्रत्यक्ष रूपमा हिउँ नै नदेखेका मानिसहरुका लागि  त अनौठो साथै रमाइलो पनि भइरहेको छ । विशेष गरी यसैवर्ष पुनर्वाशमा  आउनेहरु  त अझै चकित परेका देखिन्छन् । विभिन्न स्कुल, क्लब आदिले हिउँमा चिप्लिने खेल खेल्न ( ice skating ) सिकाउँदा रहेछन् ! शिविरमै जन्मिएक अर्थात हिउँ नै नदेखेका भूटानी युवा-युवतीहरु पनि चिसोको पर्वाह नगरी विभिन्न स्थानहरुमा हिउँ खेलिरहेका पाइन्छन् ।

पूर्वी क्यानाडा जस्तै-न्यू फाउन्ड ल्यान्ड, हेलिफेक्स,, पिइआइ, फेडिक्ट्रन्, सैन्ट्जोह्न् र उता क्युबेकका विभिन्न शाहरहरुमा बसेका भूटानी युवा-युवतीहरु हिउँ खेलबाट प्रवावित भएको कुरा ती शाहरहरुमा बस्ने अन्य भूटानीहरुले बताएका छन् । तर अर्कातिर उमेर ढल्केका वृद्ध-वृद्धाहरुका लागि भने त्यही हिउँ अभिशाप पनि बनेको छ । ढेडवर्षअघि आइसैन्ट जोह्न (एनबी) मा बस्ने कमल सुब्बा पोहोर साल आफ्नो हात भाँचिएको स्मरण गर्दै युवा-युवतीहरूलाई सम्झाउनु हुन्छ, ‘‘रमाइलो गर्नु त राम्रो कुरा हो, तर होस नपुर्याए मूल्यवान् जीवन नै बर्बाद हुने डर पनि हुन्छ । हिउँको रमाइलोमा कसैलाई पिरलो नहोस् ।’’

(क्यानाडाबाट डम्बर ओस्ती)