A “raid” in Kathmandu has once again created a stir – exactly a month after the March 27 incidents in Naya Baneswor. This time, however, the “raiders” were not Indians; the venue was Baghbazar, not Baneswor; and their targets were not private. citizens but the office of Amnesty International, Nepal. According to Krishna Pahadi, president of the Nepal Chapter of the human rights organisation, a group of seven, including uniformed personnel bearing arms, barged into Amnesty’s Baghbazar office at around 3 PM on April 27 and attempted to “terrorise” Amnesty officials by demanding answers to a volley of questions including their salaries, who provided that and the rent Amnesty was paying. When challenged, Pahadi claimed, the intruders disclosed that they were officials of the Revenue Investigation Department, Ministry of Finance, HMG. They were led by one Amrit Prasad Kyastha a photocopy of whose ID has, incidentally, been published in Nepalipatra weekly.
People’s Review, 5 May 1994.
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