This article examines the bloodsheds in the incidents related to politics in Nepal.
Tikapur Incident 2015
Tharuhat protests lasted months in western terai in 2015. In its apex, 7 police officers and a child were killed during protests which turned the fate of protests.
Timeline
2015 Jul 2: Constituent Assembly started to discuss over the draft of the new constitution presented by constitution draft committee.
2015 Aug 8: Four major political parties Congress, UML, Maoist and Forum-Democratic agreed on a new 6 states model.
2015 Aug 21: After several protests in two weeks 3 major political parties (Congress, UML & Maoist) agreed on a new 7 states model. MJF-democratic opposed the agreement. Tharuhat and Madheshi protests was ongoing.
2015 Aug 24: 7 police officers, 1 two-years old child, and 3 protesters killed in Tikapur, Kailali district in a violent protest organized by Tharuhat/ Tharuwan united front. Other 17 from Nepal Police and 21 from APF were injured in the incident. Police were killed by extreme measures like by spear, sward, and buring alive. Many accused including Resham Lal Chaudhari went underground.
Killed:
(1) SSP Laxman Neupane (fatally impaled with spear)
(2) Police inspector Balaram Bishta (killed by sharp weapons)
(3) Police inspector Keshav Bohora (killed by sharp weapons)
(4) Police constable Laxman Khadka.
(5) Police constable Lokendra Chand (killed by sharp weapons)
(6) APF Head Constable Ram Bihari Chaudhary Tharu (burnt alive)
(7) APF Head Constable Lalit Saud.
(8) Tek Bahadur (2 years old son of APF head constable Saud).
Emergency meeting of the National Security Council in Kathmandu decided to deploy the army in Kailali, Sarlahi and Rautahat districts.
2015 Sep 13: Kailali district police filed murder case against 21 person for killing 8 police and 1 child in Aug 24. Indicted include Mjf-D central committee member Laxman Tharu, tharu kalyankari sabha president Laruham Chaudhari. Police had arrested 39 people among whom 18 were released on general date.
2017 Nov 26 & Dec 7: General election held. Resham Chaudhari won election from Kailali-1. He ran from RJPN Party by registering his candidacy via proxy while still in hiding.
2018 Feb 26: Resham Chaudhary surrendered to Kailali district court.
2019 Jan 3: Resham Chaudhari sworn in as a member of house of representative. Chaudhary was brought in from the Dilli Bazar Jail to parliament building for the ceremony and the police took him back to the prison after its completion. (link)
2019 March 7: Kailali District Court gave life sentence to 11 people including then RJPN MP Resham Lal Chaudhary for their role in the massacre. RJPN opposed the decision saying the incident was political not criminal. As a convicted criminal, Resham Chaudhari automatically lost his post of member of house of representatives.
Convictions: life sentence (11 people), 10 years (12 people), six months (1 person)
Resham Lal Chaudhary,
Harinarayan Chaudhary,
Raj Kumar Kathariya,
Sundar Lal Kathariya,
Brija Mohan Dagaura,
Rajesh Chaudhary,
Bir Bahadur Chaudhary,
Pradip Chaudhary,
Sitaram Chaudhary,
Shrawan Chaudhary,
Gangaram Dagaura Chaudhary, and many others
2020 Dec 17: The Dipayal High Court upheld the 2019 March decision of the Kailali District Court about convicting lawmaker Resham Chaudhary and seven others. A division bench of judges Tek Narayan Kunwar and Sitaram Mandal issued the verdict. In addition to that, the high court added the punishment Laxman Tharu giving his life sentence. District Court had released Tharu after three years in jail.
2022 Jan 3: Resham Chaudhari registered new political party named "Nagarik Unmukti Party". His wife Ranjita Shrestra became chairman of the party. Chaudhary was with Mahantha Thakur-led Loktantrik Samajwadi Party Nepal (LSP) after the split in Janata Samajwadi Party (JSP).
2022 Nov 20: General election held in Nepal. Nagarik unmukti party won 4 seats (including 1 independent seat). Ranjeeta Shrestha (Kailali 1), Arun Kumar Chaudhary (Kailali 2), Ganga Ram Chaudhary (Kailali-3) were the winners. Where as Resham's father Lalbir Chaudhary (independent) won form Bardiya 2 as a back up candidate as candidacy of Resham Chaudhari was denied in Berdiya-2.
2023 May 11: The government introduced a new bill to parliament with the aim of releasing former lawmaker Resham Chaudhary. The Bill to Amend Some Nepal Acts, has a provision that people affiliated with political groups that have signed agreements with the government to join peaceful convicts will be freed of their charges.
2023 May 16: The Supreme Court upheld the decisions of lower courts to convict Resham Chaudhary in 2015 Tikapur incident. A division bench of justices Anand Mohan Bhattarai and Nahakul Sudedi gave that verdict. Resham and 10 others were convicted by the Kailali District Court on Mar 6, 2019 and by the Dipayal High Court on Dec 18, 2020. (link)
2023 May 28: President pardoned Resham Chaudhari by the recommendation of the government. He is being released 14 years 9 months earlier, as he was given life sentenced (20 years) among which he already spent 5 years and 3 months in prison. Sharada Bohora (kadayat), wife of police inspector Keshab Bohora who was killed in tikapur incident, filled writ petition in the Supreme Court against this decision.
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Gaur Massacre 2007
In 2007, clashes between Upendra Yadav led Madheshi Jana Adhikar Forum (MJF) and CPN Maoist killed 29 and injured 40 in Gaur, Rautahat.
Timeline
2007 Mar 21: Clashes erupted in Gaur, Rautahat between Madheshi Jan Adhikar Forum and Madheshi Mukti Morcha, sister organization of CPN(Maoist).
Both parties had arranged mass meetings in the same venue Rice mill ground. Upendra Yadav was going to address rally for MJFN and Sansad Prabhu Shah was going to address the Mukti Morcha rally. After the clash, 12 bodies were found in the ground where 15 more bodies found in Hajmaniya and Mudwalawa villages 5 km away from the ground.
Total 29 dead, 40 injured. Rape, extreme torture was reported during the incident.
Royal Massacre 2001
Ten members of the royal family, including King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya, were killed in a mass shooting during a gathering of the royal family at the palace in 2001. The government-appointed inquiry team named Crown Prince Dipendra as perpetrator of the massacre.
Timeline
2001 June 1 Fri 9PM: a mass shooting occurred during a gathering of the royal family at the Narayanhati royal palace. Total 15 injured taken to nearby hospital.
2001 June 2: in the morning, news spread throughout the country that a massacre occurred in the royal palace. TV, Radio gone silent. People came to streets spontaneously.
Raj Sabha Standing Committee met in afternoon. The meeting appointed Prince Dipendra as the King while being in coma. His uncle Prince Gyanendra was appointed his regent.
2001 June 4: Newly appointed King Dipendra died in coma. Gyanendra was appointed as the king.
A-three main committee formed comprising Chief Justice Keshav Prasad Upadhya, Speaker of the House Taranath Ranabhat, and opposition leader Madhav Nepal. Nepal resigned from the committee.
2001 June 12: a Hindu katto ceremony was held to exorcise or banish the spirit of the dead king from Nepal. priest, Durga Prasad Sapkota, dressed as Birendra to symbolize the late king, rode an elephant out of Kathmandu and into symbolic exile, taking many of the monarch's belongings with him.
2001 June 14: The two-membered committee carried out a week-long investigation and published the report in the press conference which concluded that Prince Dipendra had consumed alcohol and smoked cigarettes laced with opium before he walked into the billiard room of the Narayanhiti Palace at night on June 1 and gunned down his victims before shooting himself. However, a large sector of Nepali people did not accept this conclusion.
2001 Nov 12 Mon: Princess Prekshya died in helicopter crash in Rara lake. Helicopter had 5 passengers and a pilot among which only pilot survived. Her husband Prince Dhirendra was also killed in royal massacre in June.
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