Nepal update

NEPAL

1934 – 8.1 earthquake killed 10,700 people in Nepal. (AFP yahoo news 26 April 2015).

16 Jan 1934 – An 8.4 earthquake in India and Nepal, killed 10,700 people. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 16 Jan 2015).

Aug 1988 – 6.8 earthquake killed 721 people. (AFP 26 April 2015 yahoo news).

1996-2004 – Maoist rebels tried to set up a peoples republic of Nepal in 1996. The King declared war on the communists, prince Dinendre shot and killed his father, King Birenara and other members of the Royal family in June 2001, he also shot himself. The new King Gyanendra declared martial law against the Maoists 10,000 people were killed and 150,000 made homeless, 22 June 2004. (The secret history of the American empire. John Perkins ©2007 US).

2005 – A history of Nepal. John Welpton. Google books.

23 April 2008 – Nepal Maoist chief and Chinese Communist party officials. BBC London UK. Two Communist parties.

23 Feb 2009 – Move against opium farms. Illegal opium farms in Nepal. BBC London.

1 March 2009 – Fifteen people were hurt as Nepal police clash with opium farmers. BBC London.

26 June 2014 – Nepal’s organ trade, a CNN freedom project documentary. Indian TV, investigates the brutal kidney trade in Nepal.

27 June 2014 – The Telegraph UK. Nepal adoptions chief raped and groomed orphans for sex, claims British teacher. Abuse and vice ring. Dean Nelson New Delhi, and Anil Giri Kathmandu. Head of orphanage in custody. Raped young girls and groomed them for sex in Kathmandu. Rabin Shrestha. Child rights international, child trafficking for sex in Nepal. Paedophile ring.

29 June 2014 – CNN. Nepal organ trafficking also on twitter.

29 June 2014 – Organ trafficking is a major problem in Nepal, kidneys. World Bulletin.

4 Sept 2014 – Children in private orphanages in Nepal are at risk of sex abuse. Yahoo news.

24 Sept 2014 – Nepal war the rape victims suffer for need of justice. Reuters. Katmandu Times . No access to justice.

20 Oct 2014 – 40 feared disappeared in Nepal blizzard. Cape Town South Africa. 40 people missing after blizzard.

17 Nov 2014 – About 200,000 Nepal children were sold into sex slavery in India. Aangirfan.

24 Nov 2014 – Nepal 20^th in slavery index. Kathmandu Post. 20143 global slavery index. At least 228,700 people in Nepal are slaves.

29 Nov 2014 – Barbaric slaughter or historic ritual. More than 500 buffaloes killed. National Post. Getty images. Largest animal mass slaughter in the world.

10 Dec 2014 – Missing people in Nepal. Deutsche Welle Germany. The decade long civil war in Nepal ended in 2006. Leaving 13,000 people dead and at least 1,300 missing.

17 Jan 2015 – Nepal orphanage volunteers on rape charges. Herald Sun Australia. Police in Nepal charged a Catholic orphanage volunteer with sex abuse, corruption and fraud.

28 March 2015 – Yahoo news. E Kantipur. The UK should cut aid to Nepal, for endemic corruption. London Reuters. 86 million pounds or $128 million. Poor governance alleged in Nepal.

26 April 2015 – Critical 72 hours after Nepal earthquake. CNN. Madison Park. Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world. People are in the rubble. Access to food, water and shelter is a challenge. In Kathmandu many homes have collapsed. David Young ireport.

26 April 2015 – New York Times. Ancient collision made Nepal earthquake inevitable. Kenneth Chang.

26 April 2015 – Hundreds of foreign tourists are missing. Google executive killed. RT. Dan Fredinburg aged 33. 7.9 quake.

26 April 2015 – Indian Express. Aftershocks continue to rock Nepal. At least 1,800 people are dead. Hospitals are filling up with the injured. Kathmandu int airport is shut.

26 April 2015 – Death toll reaches 1,805. NZ Herald. Aftershocks continue. Death toll fast rising. Nepal earthquake.

26 April 2015 – Jerusalem online., Large rescue operation. There are 300 thousand tourists in Nepal. Google executive killed.

26 April 2015 – 7.8 quake. Hundreds of people are dead. AFP. Deadly avalanche in Everest. Yahoo news. Dozens of Australians are missing. Toppled office blocks in Kathmandu. Killed in China, India and Bangladesh.