FORMER NEPALESE PM G.P. KOIRALA PASSES AWAY

NEPAL'S PEACE ARCHITECT AND FORMER
PM GIRIJA PRASAD KOIRALA DIES AT 85

KATHMANDU, Nepal (BBC News) - Nepal's former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, who served five terms and led mass protests that ended the king's authoritarian rule in the Himalayan nation, died Saturday. He was 85. Koirala was born in 1925 in Bihar of India. Koirala spent seven years in prison in the 1960s for fighting for democratic rule. After democracy was introduced in 1990, he became one of the most powerful forces in the country's tumultuous political scene. He was democratically elected Prime Minister in 1991 after a popular revolt ended absolute rule by the king. He was also a key figure in the peace process that ended 10 years of communist insurgency with the Maoist rebels giving up their armed revolt and joining mainstream politics. In May 2006, the government and Maoist rebels began peace talks, the first in nearly three years, resulting in a peace accord by November 2006, declaring a formal end to a 10-year rebel insurgency. Recently, Koirala was nominated for Nobel Prize by Nepali government to honor his effective role resolving decade long insurgency and peace process.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed condolences. “Koirala spent his entire political life championing the cause of the people. Koirala was a mass leader and a statesman, whose knowledge and wisdom guided the polity of Nepal in the right direction at critical junctures in the country's history.” Mr Singh said.
Mr Koirala's body will lie in state at the national stadium on Sunday, with his funeral later in the day at the Pashupatinath Hindu temple in Kathmandu.


The leaders of the countries long to find peace for their people through international treaties, but then new problems arise as resentment, envy and ambition still remain in the individuals. Knowledge about the science of God is the way to turn the mass mind towards spiritual realization.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

There is a need for the science of Krishna in human society for the good of all suffering humanity of the world, and we simply request the leaders of all nations to pick up this science of Krishna for their own good, for the good of society and for the good of all the world's people. ... The Lord inaugurated this system of mass sańkīrtana, and leaders of all countries can take advantage of this spiritual movement in order to keep the mass of people in a pure state of peace and friendship with one another. This is now the demand of the present human society all over the world.

ŚŚrīla A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda :
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, Introduction.