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YOB lobbied youths in Austria Festival

Posted: 31 Jul 2011 04:59 PM PDT

A three-member delegation of the Youth Organization of Bhutan (YOB) has attended a week long 'World Youth Festival' held in Attersee, Austria from July 25-31.

According to a press statement, the YOB delegates also met with Werner Faymann, the Prime Minister of Austria during his visit at the festival area, on the second day function.

Werner Faymann, the Prime Minister of Austria (L) poses with Rajen Giri. Photo courtesy/YOB.

"We talked briefly about the current situation of the country, western countries' perception of democracy in Bhutan and presented the prepared country report of Bhutan to the Prime Minister of Austria," reads the statement.

According to Rajen Giri, the YOB group also had an opportunity to meet Party leaders, Hakan Juholt and Sigmar Gabriel, the head of Social Democratic Party of Sweden and the Social Democratic Party of Germany respectively.

It is reported that a series of meetings with other delegations from Europe, Australia and the Asia Pacific regions were organized, where the YOB briefed the current situation on Bhutanese refugee impasse.

The Bhutan delegates during the festival. Photo courtesy/YOB.

"Delegations from Australia, Germany, Finland, Belgium, Denmark have even offered the platform to speak about our issues during their mass programs to raise the awareness on western societies as they said that majority of people in the West who have heard about Bhutan have only known as Happy People," reads the statement, adding–"Delegation from Australia suggested that it is utmost necessity that people need to know the truth, thereby the movement gets strong solidarity."

The International Union Socialist Youth (IUSY), a global youth platform organized the festival.

Rajen Giri, Dhan Maya Ale Magar and Aakash Budathoki of YOB, representing Bhutan, attended the festival, which was attended by 2500 plus youths from 114 different countries from across the world.

FIR filed against Sah

Posted: 31 Jul 2011 04:52 AM PDT

An FIR (First Information Report) was filed on Saturday against a resident of Damak-12 of Jhapa, who owns a grocery shop in Bangey Bazaar of Beldangi, on charges of murdering a ninth grade student this Thursday.

The FIR was lodged at Damak Police Station against 27-year-old Ajay Sah accusing him of murdering Tek Bahadur Basnet, 14, of Beldangi-II Extension camp.

Late Basnet : (Photo courtesy : Basnet Family)

Basnet, who was a ninth-grade student of Tri-Ratna Secondary School, was found hanging in a tree near the camp but on a suspicious condition. Eyewitness including some members of the Basnet family claimed the  case was a murder, not suicide.

Karna Bahadur Basnet, elder brother of the deceased lodged the FIR this afternoon, informed Camp Secretary Dhanbir Subba.

Meanwhile, police said they interrogated accused Sah and also arrested one exiled youth, whose name has remained undisclosed.

“Sah admitted of physically assaulting late Basnet for stealing Rs 3000 from his shop,” Sub-Inspector of Nepal Police Ganesh Bhattarai told Bhutan News Service. “However, he denied of murdering the boy saying he had developed a kind of family relation with him for Basnet was working in his shop since a year.”

Grocery shop of accused Sah vandalised by exiled youths. (Picture courtesy : Purbelitimes.com)

Exiled youths also vandalized the Sah’s shop and destroyed goods worth Rs 200,000, police quoted Sah as claiming.

According to Police, medical examinations revealed the case was a suicide, not a murder. “Doctors are yet to dispatch the official report of the postmortem,” added the Sub-Inspector.

The Camp Secretary expressed dismay saying both the family of the deceased and the camp management committee were denied the medical report.

“We were told to cremate the dead body, but without knowing if the case was a murder or suicide,” he told.

Hundreds of camp residents, school teachers and students took part in the funeral procession on Friday.

(With inputs from Hari Kumar Dahal and Mon Bahadur Poudel from Beldangi camps)