Sources: India e-News and Nepal public holidays. An umbrella of nearly 60 communities, which were the first settlers of Nepal, have called for a countrywide shutdown, tomorrow, on Friday June 1, 2007. A senior Maoist minister, Dev Gurung, who is local development minister and comes from an indigenous community, is said to be supporting the strike in principle, as well as the Maoist organisation of Ethnic Groups, which also announced it would support the shutdown.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Nepal Faces June 1 Nationwide Shutdown
Sources: India e-News and Nepal public holidays. An umbrella of nearly 60 communities, which were the first settlers of Nepal, have called for a countrywide shutdown, tomorrow, on Friday June 1, 2007. A senior Maoist minister, Dev Gurung, who is local development minister and comes from an indigenous community, is said to be supporting the strike in principle, as well as the Maoist organisation of Ethnic Groups, which also announced it would support the shutdown.
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