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Yen (Kathmandu), Nepal Mandala - The Nepal Government this evening withdrew its proposal to the 11th amendment of the V. S. 2063 Interim Constitution of Nepal with regard to appointing an expert committee in place of the State Restructuring Committee. The Government withdrew it due to the objection made by the Indigenous CA Members’ Caucus states in a press release bu the Indigenous CA Members’ Caucus. The press release reads as below in Khasa language.

Yen (Kathmandu), Nepal Mandala - Oct. 30: Newars from Nepal too are taking part in the first World Newar Convention taking place in London, United Kingdom through a tele-conference of the event at the Satoaaki Memorial Building at Kupandole of Lalitpur. The teleconference was organized to facilitate a better representation of Newar leaders from Nepal.

Joining the three-day convention that began on October 29 in London and extending best wishes for the success of the event, Patron of Newar national forum the Newa Deyadabu (NDD) and Nepal Bhasa Academy Vice Chancellor Laxman Rajawamsi stressed on the need for a national-level committee to discuss with the eminent personalities of various sectors for the establishment of a Newa Autonomous State.

(In the photo from left to right are: Newar Women Organization President Prof. Dr. Chunda Vajracharya, NDD President Naresh Tamarkar, NDD Patron Vice Chancellor Laxman Rajawamsi, World Newar Organization Vice President Suwarn Vajracharya (Chair of the Teleconference), Nepal national party Nepa Rastriya party (NRP) President Dr. Keshab Man Shakya, Nepal Bhasa Manka Khala (NBMK) Yen (Kathmandu) General Secretary Naresh Shakya, NBMK Yala President Kiran Shakya)

Speaking at the same teleconference, Malla K Sundar, another patron of NDD emphasized on the need for the conference to come out with a clarity on its need, the objectives and agenda of the organization. He called for solidarity among all the Newars living in Nepal for a Newa Autonomous State and mentioning of the same in the statute to be passed by the Convention.

Secretary of NBMK Manka Khala, Naresh Bir Shakya, President of Nepa Rastriya Party, Keshav Man Shakya, Prof. at Hiroshima University, Keshav Maharjan, Vice-president of World Newah Organization, Suwarn Vajracharya and other speakers shed light on the importance of the convention and the need to guarantee the rights of the Newar community in the new Constitution.

Earlier on Saturday, Chancellor of Nepal Bhasa Academy, Dr Satya Mohan Joshi inaugurated the convention in London organized jointly by the World Newah Organization and the Pasapucha Guthi, UK.

The Convention has been organized with the objective of promoting and preserving the language, culture and traditions of the Newar community and establishing rights in par with other communities.

Representatives from Newar communities living in 12 countries including Nepal, Japan, America, Belgium, German and Spain are taking part in the convention.

The teleconference in Kathmandu presided over by WNO Vice President Suwarn Vajracharya was organized by World Newah Organization with support from Nepal Bhasa Manka Khala Yen (Kathmandu), Nepal Bhasa Manka Khala Yala (Lalitpur) and Nepal Mandal Foundation. RSS/The Newah

Yen (Kathmandu), Nepal Mandala - The most Venerable Bhante Buddhaghosha the eldermost Buddhist monk in Nepal passed away this morning at the age of 90. Known as Sangha Naayaka (President of Buddhist monks), his body remains lay with religious honour at the Sumangala Buddha Vihara in Lalitpur till tomorrow (Sunday) evening and will be cremated on Monday.

If a monk of his calibre expires in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Burma, a state honour will be given by the Government of these countries and head of the states will visit the departed monk and pay respect. But we are yet to know how the demise of a respected Buddhist monk is treated by the President and the government of Nepal where the Buddha was born. The Newah expresses its heartfelt condolences to the bereaved Buddhist community of Nepal and aborad mourning his demise. May he attain to blissful Nirvana!

Update Sep. 26, 2011
Bhante Buddhagosa was cremated today afternoon at Sankhamola crematorium amidst chanting of sutras by hundreds of venerable monks, nuns, followers and wellwishers joining the procession from Lunkhusi to Sankhamola despite all day long rain. To learn more about Bhante Buddhaghosa and his contribution to peace, please visit here for English article; to read the article published by Annapurna Post, click here .

What necessitates a country’s governance system to restructure may vary depending on individual cases. Many developing countries after civil war or ethnic conflict tend to seek changes against the existing governance systems. But taking up cases of Cambodia and South Africa for examples, both countries after decades old conflicts that led to civil war have managed to settle the problems with the existing system of governance by rectifying the past ills and errors. Nepal, needing the change of governance system and after Maoist insurgency and military atrocities, held election for Constitutional Assembly (CA) in April 2007, has so far seen three governments collapsed without concluding the peace process and drafting of the New Constitution, despite the people elected them for those two important purposes. Full Article

Yen (Kathmandu), Nepal Mandala - The Newarland monthly is out today. The first copy was released by Dr. Satya Mohan Joshi, the Chancellor of Nepal Bhasa Academy at a function chaired by Naresh Bir Sakya in Yen (Kathmandu), Nepal Mandala this evening. The monthly’s edition is assited by Razen Manandhar. The Newah wholeheartedly congratulates Naresh Bir Shakya, Razen Manandhar and the Ilohan publication for a continued success in their effort.

Nepal Year 1131 Gunla 22
Yala (Lalitpur), Nepal Mandala - Leaders of three major party leaders led by UNCP chairman Puspa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda”, NC vice president Ram Chandra Pauldel and UML vice president assured the Newar audience of the Nepal Mandala gathered at a political conference of Peace Process and drafting of the New Constitution, held at Asok party palace, Yala (Lalitpur) on Sunday 1131 Gunla 22 (21 August 2011) the autonomy for the Newar people in the New Constitution being drafted for a New Nepal of ethnic federalism.


UNCP Chairman Prachanda said, it was the UNCP that launched the ethnic structure of federalism, and will not back away from its assurance. NC vice president Ramchandra Paudel said that the Nepali Congress supports the ethnic federalism. Likewise, UML vice president Bam Dev Gautam also assured the audience that his party is in favour of the ethnic federalism.

The conference was presided over by Newa Swayetta Rajya Manka Sangharsha Samiti (NSRMS) – the Common Struggle Committee for Newar Autonomous State - chairman Dil Bahadur Shrestha. Malla K. Sunder, the chief of the NSRMS Secretariat warned the three parties not to back away from the ethnic federalism without assuring the “autonomous state” for the Newar people of this country. Newa Jagaran Manch Coordiantor Sujeev Bajracharya gave the vote of thanks at the program.

Sagar Man Bajracharya contributed to this news report and provided photos – The Newah

Yen (Kathmandu), Nepal Mandala - In a posting received to The Newah, the Dharmodaya Sabha, the National Buddhist Federation of Nepal is to hold its General election on 21st August to elect a new executive board, Mr. Sagar Man Bajracharya, the General Secretary of Vajracharya Trust of Nepal has submitted his application for the post of Treasurer at the Dharmodaya Sabha. What many Buddhists and members have been shocked to learn seems to be that two Theravada monks are also contesting for the General Secretary and Tresurer posts of Dharmodaya Sabha in addition to the president post this term is suppossed to appont a Buddhist monk. This is, it is learnt that, the first time that two young Theravada monks are going to contest the posts normally allocated for the lay Buddhists - General Secretary and the Treasurer posts despite, it is learnt that, the president to be monk has advised the two young monks to refrain from contesting the posts allocated for the laity.

Hiroshima (The Newah) - Nepal Ambassador to Japan H.E. Dr. Ganesh Yonzan Tamang called on the international community to support consolidate the ongoing peace process in Nepal. Joining “the 7th HiPeC* Peace-building Exchange - Talk on Peace in Nepal: Conflict and Ongoing Peace Process in Nepal”, held in the Grand Hall of the Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation (IDEC), Hiroshima University on August 5th, Ambassador Yonjan made a presentation on “Nepal in a Painful Transition from Conflict to Peace Process: Present and Future.” In the presentation, Ambassador Yonjan dwelt about a number of issues - political conflict and development, causes of violent conflict, cost and consequences of conflict, efforts for peace-building, and national development strategies and priorities to consolidate the peace process. He said the violent conflict took more than 13,000 lives, destroyed infrastructure worth more than 300 billions of rupees, bifurcated the society with conflict trauma, gradually militarized the country and made it autocratic and anarchic. The conflict caused a large scale exclusion of historically discriminated population from governance, increasing social and economic disparities, pervasive poverty and lack of employment, polarization of political forces and continuous resistance to reforms from the elite and feudal classes. Ambassador Yonjan called on international community to consolidate the ongoing peace process in Nepal by supporting the agenda of inclusion to make democracy more participatory and meaningful and support individual liberty and social justice.

The program was attended by some 40 academic staffs and students of Hiroshima University. A lively discussion followed the presentation, in which students from Botswana, India, Nepal, pursuing Ph.D. at IDEC under Professor Keshav L Maharjan, gave their views to deepen the understanding of the issues.
At the program, while Hiroshima University vice president and HiPeC Joint Committee chair Professor, Yamane Yasuo delivered welcome speech, Professor Yoshida Osamu, the chairman of HiPeC Executive Committee moderated the program. Dr. Akiba Tadatoshi, former mayor of Hiroshima city, who was awarded Nepal’s prestigious Gautama Buddha Peace prize, and currently professor by special appointment at Hiroshima University gave vote of thanks to the ambassador and presented gift from Hiroshima University. The program was closed by Professor Maharjan, who not only upheld the presentation by the ambassador but also highly valued his visit to the Hiroshima University accompanied by Mrs. Tamang and the embassy officials that included deputy chief of mission Dr. Durga Bahadur Subedi and Attaché’ Mr. Krishna Bahadur Thapa. On behalf of the dean of IDEC, Professor Maharjan also presented gifts to the embassy team.

Ambassador Yonjan also participated in the memorial of the victims of the Hiroshima Atomic bomb held next day in the Hiroshima city.
In another program held in Osaka organized to promote Nepal Tourism year 2011 by the Nepal Embassy, Ambassador Yonjan distributed letters of appreciations to several Japanese and Nepalese resident in Japan for their contribution in promoting Nepal in Japan and Japan Nepal relationship. Honorary Nepal Consul for Kansai Mr. Imanishi, Professor Keshav L. Maharjan, Mr. Dinesh Shrestha were among those who received the letters of appreciation from the Ambassador.
*[HiPeC stands for Hiroshima University Partnership Project for Peace-building and Capacity Development].

(The Newah News edited by Suwarn Vajracharya. Dr. Keshav Maharjan provided photos and contributed to this news article.)

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Tokyo - (The Newah) - Govinda Prasad Mainali, a Nepali citizen in Japan, jailed for convicted murder of a woman office employee of TEPCO is likely to get his appeal for retrial heard as the DNA test result found recently from the victim has proved it belonged to a third person, Yomiuri Shimbun reported this morning. This is going to prove that the April 2000 Tokyo District Court ruling that “there was no possibility of a third person’s involvement in the case” was erroneous. This will open a retiral of the case soon.

Mainali (44), who was working at a restaurant in Tokyo, jailed in 1997 as a suspect for the murder of the TEPCO woman staff, has been serving life imprisonment as the prosecutors had convicted him on the circumstantial evidence despite there was no direct evidence for the offence. Mainali from the beginning had been denying the charges appealed in 2005 for DNA test and retrial of the case. The DNA test proof that it doesn’t match Mainali’s should do justice for his release soon. The news was first reported in the Yahoo Japan this morning citing Yomiuri Shimbun, July 21 (Thu) 1:03 in Japanese. The Newah took no time to report this and share with those who are concerned about Mainali, wishing Mainali all the best for his earliest release from the prison and walk a free man sooner.

Yen (Kathmandu), Nepal Mandala - Indigenous Film Promotion Committee, Sunsari in Dharan is to hold international indigenous film festival in mid December this year. Films and documentaries will include from Bolivia, Ruanda, Finland, and Nepal (Godeva – Tamang, Gvay maru – Newar, Tinaga – Tamu, Bhuyar – Tharu, Barahiputra – Magar). This is the third time the international indigenous festival going to be held in Dharan being organized by Engineers Film Archive and sponsored by the Embassy of Denmark for Nepal.

धरानय् आदिवासी सँ:किपा: नख: हनीगु
नेपाल संवत ११३१ तछला ११ आइतवा:

येँ, नेपाल मण्डल - आवैगु पोहेला (डिसेम्बर १८, १९), धरानय् अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय आदिवासी सँ:किपा: नख: हनीगु दु। आदिवासी माँभासया सँ:किपा: पाखेँ आदिवासी माग, मुद्दा व अधिकारया च्व: (विषय)त थकायेगु, आदिवासी सँ:किपा: गाँगामय् त:ब्याकेगु, व मूधा:, सँ:किपालय् आदिवासी धा:यात दुथ्याका राष्ट्रीय छवा:या आधारयात अझ बल्लाकेगु आज्जुकथँ अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय आदिवासी सँ:किपा: नख: हनेत्यंगु ख:।

आदिवासी जनजाति सँ:किपा: प्रवर्द्धन समिति सुनसरी धरानया ग्वसालय् धरान सभागृहय् अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय आदिवासी सँ:किपा: नख: ११३२ ञायेके त्यंगु ख:। नख:या मूग्वसा इन्डिजिनियस सँ:किपा: आ:काइव् -आईफा) ख:सा मूगुहालि एम्बेसी अफ डेनमार्क ख:।

राजधानिई, इन्डिजिनियस् सँ:किपा: आ:काइवँ या:गु अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय आदिवासी सँ:किपा: नख: ११३० यात त:ब्याकेगु कथँ धरानय् ग्वसा: ग्वय् त्यंगु ख:। दँय् दसँ धरानय् ग्वसाग्वया वयाच्वंगु अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय आदिवासी सँ:किपा: नख: थ्व स्वक: खुसि ख:।

नख:या दुने राष्ट्रीय, अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय, ताहा, चीहा याना कुल १५ (झिंञा) गु आदिवासी सँकिपा व डोक्यूमेन्ट्रि केनीगु दु, गुगुली बिल्डिङ डिग्निटी -बोलीविया), ओस्कार एवोर्ड ला:गु होटल रुवान्डा -रुवान्डा), गोदेवा -तामाङ), ग्वाय् मरु –नेवा:), तिनागा -तमु), भुयार -थारु), बाराहीपुत्र -मगर) आदि ताहा सँ:किपा: ख:सा, चीहा सँ:किपा: व डोक्यूमेन्ट्री थाक्थाक्मा -लिम्बू), द चिउरी -चेपाङ), नाराम -मगर), महिटा -तमु) व गेइटालागा -फिनल्यान्ड) केनीगु दु। सँ:किपा: नख: हनीगु धरान सभागृहय् नेवा:, थारु, राई, लिम्बू, मगर, शेर्पा तामाङ नापँ थीथी आदिवासी जनजाती नसाया स्टल नापँ आदिवासी जनजाति सफू स्टलनँ तैगु दु।

- By: Bheeshan Rai (Nepal Bhasa translation and summary by Suwarn Vajracharya)