![]() ![]() 11 urged all sides to lift the blockade at the border, invoking the landlocked country’s right of free transit.Īs a result of the “man-made disaster,” Fr. Nepal Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli has blamed India for the blockade.ĭespite the distress, Hindu groups that had unsuccessfully campaigned for Nepal being declared a Hindu nation continue to protest in the capital, seeking a change from the government.Įxpressing concern over the obstruction of essential supplies, U.N. Vital supplies have been blocked by demonstrators opposed to the new constitution. More than 50 people have died in three months of protests. “The general perception here is that the (Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party-controlled) Indian government is supporting the blockade because Nepal has chosen to be a secular state and not a Hindu state,” Fr. ![]() Soon after, political parties and groups in the Madhesi region bordering India launched a blockade of the key supply routes from India to the Himalayan nation, alleging marginalization of the Madhesi people under the new constitution. 20 adoption of a new Nepalese constitution that declared the former Hindu kingdom as a “secular state,” nine years after the Hindu monarchy was overthrown by a popular uprising. Perumana traced the difficulties to the Sept. We have hardly any electricity, fuel or cooking gas. “The economic blockade has crippled life here. Pius Perumana, director of Caritas Nepal, said Dec. It will be a very harsh Christmas for us this year,” Fr. “The situation here is worse than the (post-) earthquake scenario. (CNS photo/Narendra Shrestha, EPA)Ĭhurch officials told Catholic News Service that the Nepalese face a heightened crisis as winter settles in because supplies of fuel for vehicles and cooking gas have dwindled and electricity service has become intermittent. The church in Nepal is preparing for a bleak Christmas as the Himalayan nation passes through one of the worst crisis in its history following the earthquake and an Indian blockade. Nepalese who lost their home in the April 25 earthquake chop firewood in Lalitpur Dec. ![]()
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