Below are the 506 public signatures added to the petition against escalated US military funding to Nepal. There are, in addition, 113 other signatures that were not made public and are therefore not included here.
Many comments are educative and we encourage you to go through them, whether you are supportive of or opposed to the position in the letter and statement.
These documents are now being prepared for mailing to the concerned members of the US government.
On the following list comments, if any, appear below the name of the individual.
If you are a US citizen, we also encourage you to contact your own representatives and express your concern about this issue. After the petition is sent to Washington, information will be posted on this website to facilitate individual follow-up initiatives.
We thank each of the signatories for their time and attention at this critical juncture in Nepali history.
Mr. Ludo De Brabander
Member vzw Vrede
Gent, Belgium
Dr. Bevil Conway
Harvard Neurobiology Department
Cambridge MA, USA
Mr. Bernd Schlueter
Teacher
Duesseldorf, Germany
Mr. Gianfranco Brero
Dzogchen Community
Lima,, Peru
Ms. Muriella Colajacomo Málaga
Sao Paolo, Brazil
Mr. Larry Lohmann
Researcher, The Corner House
Sturminster Newton, Dorset, UK
Professor Jane H. Aiken
Washington University School of Law
St. Louis, MO, USA
Mr. Hans Christian Monsen
Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions
Oslo, Norway
Ms. Bettina von Reden
Student
Germany
Mr. Mark Flummerfelt
Dept. of South Asian Languages and Civilizations
University of Chicago
Chicago IL, USA
Mr. G.B. Adhikari
ActionAid Nepal
Biratnagar, Nepal
Mr. Anil Bhattarai
Nepal South Asia Centre
Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Komal Bhattarai
Centre for Nepal Studies
Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Hari Roka
Centre for Nepal Studies
Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Jhalak Subedi
College lecturer
Kathmandu, Nepal
Dr. Bimal K. Phnuyal
School of Ecology and Community Works
Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Jagat Basnet
Community Self-Reliance Centre
Kathmandu, Nepal
Ms. Sallie Fischer Limbu
Consultant
Kathmandu, Nepal
Ms. Maya Fisher
Graduate Student
UC Berkeley
Oakland CA, USA
Ms. L. Diane Juhas
Framingham MA, USA
Professor John Bellamy Foster
University of Oregon
Eugene OR, USA
Ms. Genevieve Lakier
Department of Anthropology,
University of Chicago
Chicago IL, USA
Ms. Nadia Diamond-Smith
Brown University
Providence RI, USA
Professor James F. Fisher
John W. Nason Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies
Carleton College
Northfield MN, USA
Ms. Linda de Jong
USA
Dr. Isadora de Bievre
Lecturer,
School of Oriental and African Studies
London, UK
Ms. Lindsay Friedman
Elle Organic Plants
Kathmandu, Nepal
Ms. Hana Malik
Architect
Bahrain
Opposition to the American intervention in Nepal, as well as in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Mr. Benjamin Ayers
Porters' Progress, Nepal
Lewiston, Maine USA
Mr. Darren Fisher
USA
Ms. Neeru Shrestha
Executive Director,
Campaign for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Gopal Shivakoti 'Chintan'
Lawyer and
General Secretary, National Concern Society
Kathmandu, Nepal
Dr. Clifford Lo
Harvard Medical School
Harvard School of Public Health
Visiting Professor, Kathmandu University Medical School
Boston MA, USA
Ms. Mary McNellis
Loretto Network for Nonviolence
Kansas City MO, USA
Ms. Barbara Doak
Loretto Network for Nonviolence
Kansas City MO, USA
Ms. Delores Kincaide
Loretto Network for Nonviolence
Kansas City MO, USA
There is not a war in history that has been a final solution to our problems!
Ms. Lorrie Ogren
Teacher
Minneapolis MN, USA
I have spent a lot of time in Nepal having traveled there 5 times since 1995. I whole heartedly agree with the contents of this letter and Implore you to consider our request. Thank you.
Ms. Barbara Adams
Columnist and free-lance writer
Kathmandu, Nepal
Comrade Swanaam
Representative of CPN(UCM)
Kathmandu, Nepal
We at Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Centre-Masal) are completely against this war going on in Nepal. This military aid by the USA to the Nepal government is not needed by Nepalese poor people. We oppose such kind of aid given to Nepal in the name of the American people.
Mr. Markus Loebel
Gallerist
Germany
please avoid the terror where the people suffer from international politics, you might be responsible for the hate of future generations. please help to see the need of the people and help to make an educated, peaceful world- please move
Professor Elías-Manuel Capriles-Arias
Chairman of Eastern Studies,
Department of Philosophy,
School of Education,
Faculty of Humanities and Education,
University of The Andes,
Mérida, Venezuela
Mr. Frank Slijper
Arms Trade Researcher,
Campagne tegen Wapenhandel
(Dutch Campaign Against Arms Trade)
Groningen, Netherlands
Mr. Prem Krishna Pathak
Senior lawyer and politician
New Baneshwar, Kathmandu, Nepal
Dr. Pushpa Raj Rajkarnikar
Vice-President,
Human Rights Promotion Centre
Lalitpur, Nepal
Dr. Mahesh Man Shrestha
Senior medical officer
Chhetrapati, Kathmandu
Ms. Renu Sharma
Director, Women's Foundation
Chabahil, Kathmandu, Nepal
Ms. Shobha Bajracharya
Secretary, Human Rights Promotion Centre
Dhalko, Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Krishna Prasad Shivakoti
General Secretary,
Forum for Protection of Human Rights (FOPHUR)
Baneshwar, Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Rajendra Shrestha
Politician
Chhetrapati, Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Kula Raj Ghimire
Human rights activist
Janakpur, Danusha, Nepal
Mr. Hiranya Lal Shrestha
Writer and foreign affairs expert,
Former Member of Parliament,
Former Member, Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights
Samakhusi, Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Sindhunath Pyakurel
Senior Advocate and
Chairman, Nepal Bar Association
Mr. Makito Minami
Research Fellow,
National Museum of Ethnology
Osaka, Japan
Dr. Gerald D. Berreman
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley CA, USA
Dr. Keiko Yamanaka
Department of Ethnic Studies
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley CA, USA
Mr. Sitaram Thapa
Dalit rights activist and
community development worker
Sustainable Livelihood Forum
Kathmandu and Parbat, Nepal
Ms. Nirmala Birahi
Dalit rights activist and
community development worker
Sustainable Livelihood Forum
Kathmandu and Parbat, Nepal
Ms. Sabitri Bhandari
Dalit rights activist and
community development worker
Sustainable Livelihood Forum
Chitwan, Nepal
Mr. Bir Bahadur BK
Dalit Activist and
Community Development Worker
Sustainable Livelihood Forum,
Central Committee Member, Progressive Cultural Association
Kathmandu and Parbat, Nepal
Mr. Sharad Poudel
Co-Founder,
Sustainable Livelihood Forum
Central Committee Member, Progressive Cultural Association,
Musician and playwright
Kathmandu and Parbat, Nepal
Ms. Amy Chen
Foundation for Women's Rights, Development, and Promotion
Taipei, Taiwan
Dr. Iris Sun
Dept. of Biology
Purdue University
W. Lafayette IN, USA
I strongly oppose the US military aid to Nepal
Mr. Michael A. Rechlin
Principia College
Elsah IL, USA
Ms. Sonia V. Goswami
Researcher and writer
Montreal, Canada
Dr. Anna Borodovsky
Harvard University
Cambridge MA, USA
Mr. Mitralal Pagyani
Writer
Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Khagendra Sangraula
Writer and columnist
Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Narayan Dhakal
Writer and
Former Member of Parliament
Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Govinda Bartaman
Writer and journalist
Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Ram Prasad Gyanwali
Writer
Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Mohan Duwal
Writer
Kathmandu, Nepal
Ms. Martha J. Barclay
Berkeley CA, USA
Ms. Nancy R. Posel
Jenkintown PA, USA
Ms. Jane Sabin-Davis
Educate the Children
(a US-based INGO working for education and empowerment for children and women in Nepal)
USA
Mr. Tika Gurung
New York, USA
Maoist movement is a POLITICAL issue. It must be solved through negotiations rather than militarization of the state.
Ms. Debra Jacobs
Somerville MA, USA
Mr. Krishna Pradhan
Language Instructor
Cornell-Nepal Study Program
Kathmandu, Nepal
Ms. Sulochana Manandhar
fiction writer (Nepali and Newari)
and newspaper columnist
Kathmandu, Nepal
Dr. Saroj Dhital
Surgeon, Kathmandu Model Hospital
Member, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal
Ms. Lenore Olmstead
Ithaca, NY USA
Professor Patricia Renee Yew
Assistant Professor
San Antonio TX, USA
Ms. Lisa Spinas
Social Worker,
Former Peace Corps Volunteer, Nepal, 1995-1997
Oakland, USA
Ms. May Chiu
Canada
Ms. Ruddiger Chao
Student
Montreal, Canada
Ms. Tisha Zamudoo
Student
Montreal, Canada
Mr. Douglas F. Peters
Little Silver, NJ, USA
Dr. Mark Liechty
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Illinois, Chicago
Chicago IL, USA
LAC PAC e-Forum
LAC PAC e-Forum is an informal community of some 32 former research officers and scientists who worked in two agricultural research centres at Lumle and Pakhribas in Nepal, but are currently living outside the country in their educational and career pursuits. (Dr. Drona P. Rasali is the e-Forum Coordinator). The members of LAC PAC e-Forum have collectively endorsed this petition.
Agriculture is the backbone of Nepal's economy. US aid to strengthening research and development to modernise agriculture in Nepal, focusing on regional balance and equitable distribution of production will help the country immensely in solving manifold problems associated with the current situation in Nepal. Instead, if the proposed US military aid is provided to Nepal, it will not only be highly detrimental to the production systems as a result of aggravated war situation, it will also create further gap between the "haves" who will have direct access to resources of the aid, and "have nots" who are largely subsistence farmers and will not have access to any resouces of the aid.
Ms. Colleen Flynn Thapalia
Co-Executive Director,
Educate the Children
(a US-based INGO working for education and empowerment for children and women in Nepal)
Ithaca NY, USA
Elena Houghton
Photographer
Boston MA, USA
Mr. Justin Yarrow
Ph.D. candidate
Harvard Medical School
Boston MA, USA
Ms. Trish Fenton
Princeton, NJ USA
Ms. Donna B. Hodge
American Nurses Association
Delray Beach, Fl USA
Dr. Theodore Cohen
Harvard School of Public Health
Cambridge MA, USA
Mr. Kevin Burns
RPCV Nepal 187 Jhapa District 1998-2000
Knoxville, TN, USA
This is a very difficult situation, but I believe the $20 million emergency supplemental funding to Nepal's HMG will not result in a move towards peace.
Professor Lois McCloskey
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston MA, USA
Ms. Shannon Walsh
McGill University researcher
Concordia University MA student
Montreal, Canada
Please take the requests of people all over the world seriously. No more militarization!
Mr. Arne Draeger
Rostock, Germany
Mr. Mark Schifferli
Cambridge, MA, USA
Ms. Oksana Korol
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA
Ms. Anne Posel
Santa Fe NM, USA
Mr. Jeffrey C Huestis
Director of Applications and Information Resource Development
Networking and Library Technology
Washington University
St. Louis MO, USA
Former Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal.
Dr. Alice Godfrey MD, retired
Aptos CA, USA
Dr. Michael G. Mage
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda MD USA
Ms. Ayano Furuya
Montreal, Canada
Ms. Lynnea Ellison
Health care
Fowlerville, USA
Ms. Rachael A. Beyer
Waitress
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Ms. Edna Sun
Harvard Medical School and
Kathmandu University Medical School
Boston, MA USA
Ms. Leatha W. Wood
Women's International League for Peace & Freedom
Underhill, Vermont, USA
US military aid is usually an aid that aids injustice.
Ms. Anne Goodwin
Graduate student
Harvard University
Cambridge MA, USA
Dr. Shara Neidell
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Dr. Christine L. Zanella
Scientist, Harvard Medical School
Visiting Asst. Professor at
Kathmandu University Medical School
Boston, USA
Ms. Lenor de Cruz
Counselor
La Puente, USA
Ms. H. Mehta
South Asian Women's Community Centre
Montreal, Canada
Dr. Barbara Ferrer
Boston Public Health Commission
Boston MA, USA
Ms. Laila Malik
Women's Studies Researcher
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
Militarisation is a sexualized form of violence. It has been repeatedly documented that women and civilian populations the world over bear the brunt of military build-up and escalation.
Stop exporting U.S. Patriarchy.
Ms. Aimee M. Powelka
Cell Biologist,
Harvard Medical School
Volunteer Instructor,
Kathmandu University Medical School, Spring 2003
Boston MA, USA
As a member of a group of volunteers going to Nepal to teach medical students at Kathmandu University Medical School, I have been aware of the political changes in Nepal and the threat of the Maoists. The security of the current volunteers has not been threatened but I feel that this would change, given the Maoists attitude about American interference, if the U.S. were to send military aid. I sincerely hope that when I go to Nepal to teach in spring of 2003, that the American military will not be present in Nepal. I feel that their presence would significantly increase my personal risk of injury in Nepal. Please keep the American military out of Nepal.
Mr. Caesar Rana
A - level Student
Budhanilkantha School
Kathmandu, Nepal
Ms. Frances K. Faile
Textile Conservation Consultant
Royal Oak MI, USA
Ms. Susan Inglis
From The Mountain
Chapel Hill NC USA
Mr. Ryan Persich Ives
B.A. in Anthropology from Cornell University with a concentration in Nepali studies
Providence RI, USA
Ms. Elaine Mansfield
Self-employed health care counselor
Burdett NY, USA
Ms. Nancy-Jo Taiani
Montclair, NJ, USA
Ms. Myrna Balk
Social worker
Brookline MA, USA
Ms. Renee Cammarata
Program Strategist for Social Programs
Syracuse, NY USA
The needs of Nepal do not include military might. Ask most any Nepali. Military action is not likely to bring food and economic security. Peace.
Dr. Deborah Allen
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston, MA, USA
Ms. Rachel Lisa Margolis
Meadowbrook PA, USA
I am student at Cornell Univeristy, doing a year abroad at the London School of Economics. In the past I worked for Educate the Children (ETC) an Ithaca, NY based non-governmental organziation that sponsors educational and community development projects for the women and children of the Kathmandu valley. I have strong personal connections with the country and oppose any military aid to Nepal.
Ms. Margaret Myers
Ithaca, NY, USA
Ms. Barbara Lund
Health care systems consultant
Charlestown, MA, USA
Professor Lynn M. Morgan
Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA USA
Ms. Lorelei C. Shapero
US Government
Silver Spring MD, USA
Professor Lucy Honig
Associate Professor, International Health
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston MA, USA
Mr. James A. Krachey
Sharon MA, USA
Ms. Elaine M. Epstein
Todd & Weld LLP
Boston, MA USA
Dr. Terry Lechler
Rockefeller University and
Kathmandu University Medical School
USA
Dr. Katharine N. Rankin
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Dr. Gail M Liss
Baltimore MD, USA
Ms. Joyce Tavon
Independent consultant
Somerville, MA, USA
Ms. Anna Holmberg
Lawyer
Ithaca, NY, USA
Dr. Marilyn Crawford Jones
Christian Science Publishing Society
Boston, MA, USA
Dr. Robert A. Liss
Johns Hopkins University and
University of Maryland at Baltimore
Baltimore MD, USA
Ms. Katherine Sholtys
Teacher
Ithaca NY, USA
Mr. Bice Rinesi
Italian civil servant, retired
Rome, Italy
Dr. Philip Sedlak
Senior Communications Technical Expert,
Program for Appropriate Technology for Health
South Sudan, Africa
Consultant on the Radio Teacher Training Project II from 1985-88 and advisor to Nepal Social Marketing Company from 1999-2000.
Dr. Basu Dev Pandey
Nagasaki University
Nagasaki, Japan
Ms. Barsha Pradhan
Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Padma Ratna Tuladhar
Chairman, Forum for Protection of Human Rights,
Human Rights Promotion Centre
Lazimpat, Kathmandu, Nepal
I have served as one of the main mediators between the opposing forces to bring about negotiations since the very beginning of the armed conflict. I can tell you from my experience that more military aid only derails prospect for serious negotiation. We are at a difficult political juncture in Nepal. Democracy must be restored so that the concrete prospects for ceasefire and negotiations can be pursued. The vast majority of Nepali people want peace talks. These voices should be listened to by all of us. I urge the concerned foreign governments who believe in democracy also to listen to the people of Nepal.
Mr. Gauri Pradhan
Chairman, CWIN
(Child Workers in Nepal Concerned Centre)
Babar Mahal, Kathmandu, Nepal
Ms. Sumnima Tuladhar
Programme Officer -CWIN
(Child Workers in Nepal)
Lazimpat, Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Shyam Shrestha
Chief Editor, Mulyankan Monthly
Mr. Harigovinda Luintel
Editor, Mulyankan Monthly
Naikap, Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Rajendra Maharjan
Writer and columnist;
Managing Editor, Nava Yuba (youth magazine)
Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Vijay Sainju
Executive Director, CONCERN
Dallu, Kathmandu, Nepal
Professor Jacques Hersh
Center for Development and International Relations,
Aalborg University
Denmark
Mr. Suresh Kiran Manandhar
Editor,
Sandhya Times Daily
Battishputali, Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Naresh Bir Shakya
Chief Editor
Ilohan,Monthly Magazine
Jamal ,Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Sujeeb Bajracharya
Publisher and Editor
City Times Daily
Ason Tole, Kathmandu, Nepal
Ms. Stella Tamang
Coordinator, Milijuli Nepal
(affiliated with International Fellowship of Reconciliation)
Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Parshuram Tamang
Member,
Movement to Save Democratic Rights, Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal
Professor Yasushi Nozaki
Nihon Fukushi University
Tokyo, Japan
Mr. Michael Yates
Associate Editor,
Monthly Review
New York, NY USA
Ms. Annie Charity Lapham
Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Case-manager
and advocate for homeless prevention program
Austin TX, USA
Ms. Trina Paulus
Author, Hope for the Flowers
Montclair NJ, USA
Mr. Victor Wallis
Somerville MA, USA
Ms. Lois Robin
Artist and Speech Pathologist
Santa Cruz, CA USA
Ms. Isa Dempsey
Freedom CA, USA
US must learn that guns and bombs are not the right response to every situation
that does not match their goals. Culture runs on deep and ancient paths and
should be left to find the best way for it to move.
Professor Nicole Roskos
Professor of Theology
Madison NJ, USA
Ms. Hannah Nordhaus
Kangchenjunga School Project
Boulder CO, USA
Professor Robert W. McChesney
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana IL, USA
Mr. Jeff Jones
writer, environmental activist
Albany NY, USA
Professor Eleanor Stein
State University of New York at Albany
Womens Studies Department
Albany NY, USA
Ms. R. Cynthia Neudoerffer
PhD Candidate, Rural Studies
Faculty of Environmental Design and Rural Development
University of Guelph
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Mr. John J. Simon
Editor and writer
New York, NY USA
Dr. Shankar Man Rai
Plastic surgeon
Kathmandu University Medical School
Kathmandu, Nepal
Professor Robert Philen
Department of Anthropology
University of West Florida
Pensacola, FL USA
Dr. Monika Giacoppe
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Mahwah NJ, USA
Dr. Jayanta K. Dey
Knumi Inc.
USA
Ms. Aparna Sundar
Ph.D. Candidate
Dept. of Political Science
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Ms. Felice Storgato
Arcidosso, Italy
Mr. Steve Razzetti
Hesket Newmarket, UK
The US government's "war on terror" is a totally inappropriate response to the horrors of 9/11. You should be looking to start defusing these world conflicts instead of inflaming them. You should be looking for the reasons why men are driven to such appalling suicide attacks and bringing the dispossesed, disenfranchised and exploited into the world community. US foreign policy is mis-guided, ill concieved and potentially catastrophic.
Ms. Mary Bachman
Harvard School of Public Health
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Mr. John Mage
Attorney-at-law
New York, NY USA
Ms. Jo Lietzke
Huntsville, USA
Escalation of arms has rarely, if ever, been effective against Maoist activities/insurgencies. Rather it has resulted in more human suffering. Instead let us provide humanitarian aid, a more peaceful and forceful solution. Then the people of Nepal can determine their own future.
Ms. Evelyne Puchegger-Ebner
Austria
Mr. David Lowell Reed
Author, The Rough Guide to Nepal
Basalt, Colorado, USA
Ms. Miriam Ann Tillery
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore MD, USA
Ms. Maureen Loughnane
Coordinator, Human Rights Program
The University of Chicago
Chicago IL, USA
Ms. Leslie Bienen
Veterinarian and conservation consultant
Missoula Montana, USA
Mr. Debabrata Roy Laifungbam
Association of Physicians for AIDS
Director (Health and Human Rights),
Centre for Organisation Research & Education
OMCT
Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
Guwahati, Imphal, India
Ms. Dipti D. Shah
Epidemiologist
Maryland Dept. of Health & Mental Hygiene
Baltimore MD, USA
Ms. Snehal Ruparelia
Epidemiologist
CDC/NCEH/OGDP
Atlanta GA, USA
Ms. Rupal Lakhani
Graduate student
Rollins School of Public Health,
Emory University
Atlanta GA, USA
Ms. Janet Cooper
Institute of Development Studies
Brighton, UK
Ms. Asha George
Research Fellow
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Cambridge MA, USA
Dr. Dhani Narejo
Civil Engineer
GSE Lining Technologies
Houston, TX USA
Mr. Tatsuro Fujikura
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Chicago
New York NY, USA
Ms. Francoise Caro
Dept. of Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas USA
Ms. Baijanti Singh
President, Jan Jagriti Nepal (NGO)
Nepalgunj, Nepal
Ms. Margaret McColley
University of Virgina
Charlottesville VA, USA
Ms. Tone K. Sissener
Research Fellow
Chr. Michelsen Institute
Bergen, Norway
Mr. Chandeswar Prasad Singh
Executive Committee Member,
Forum for Community Empowerment
Nepalgunj, Nepal
Professor David Waltner-Toews
Department of Population Medicine
University of Guelph and
President,
Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health (www.nesh.ca)
Guelph, Canada
I first viisted Nepal in 1967, and have collaborated with researchers in Nepal for more than a decade on ecosystem health problems in downtown Kathmandu. The problems there are being solved through community participation and learning. Increased military aid to the inefficient and corrupt government will only make the situation worse.
Mr. Jakob Winkler
Tibetologist, Social Anthropologist
Geltendorf, Germany
Mr. Bishnu Devkota
Researcher
Nepal
Please do not promote the civil war in nepal by giving military assistance and do not support the corroupt group of politicians who ruled the country for last 12 years and ruined the country.
Mr. Bal Chandra Luitel
Postgraduate Student
Curtin University of Technology
Perth, Australia
Ms. Alessandra Burali
Rome, Italy
Ms. Vate Virginie
Ethnologist
Paris, France
Ms. Mariska de Jong
Junior Researcher
Leiden University
Leiden, Netherlands
Ms. Bidya Laxmi Shakya Manandhar
Banepa, Nepal
Mr. H.S. Manandhar
Banepa, Nepal
Mr. Niroj Manandhar
Banepa, Nepal
Ms. Jnanu Manandhar
Banepa, Nepal
Ms. Maiyan Manandhar
Banepa, Nepal
Mr. Nirmal Manandhar
Banepa, Nepal
Ms. Jamuna Shrestha
Nepali Restaurant Manager and
Homeopathic Physician
Madison WI, USA
Professor John Harriss
Professor of Development Studies and
Director of the Development Studies Institute
London School of Economics
London, UK
Mr. David Spencer Tapp
MIPENZ, ESR, MIEE, MIEEE
Auckland, New Zealand
New Zealand's role in helping Nepali people to improve their own standard of living is undisputed. NZ's provision of educational facilities in the Khumbu region is, in my opinion, at the opposite end of the humanitarian spectrum from the provision of military aid.
Dr. Hillary Liss
US Citizen
Assistant Professor
Kathmandu University Medical School
Dhulikhel, Nepal
Dr. Cynthia Jean Edwards
Director, Grailville Water Project
Loveland, OH, USA
After working 11 years in Nepal, I know first hand of the corruption and repression happening in Nepal. I was there when the King and his family were massacred by his own brother, Gyanendra, who is now king. Human rights activists connected to the Nepali oganization I worked with have been murdered, some are in hiding. I am currently supporting one well known activist who is now a refugee in Canada.Thousands of innocent people are being slaughtered with tax money from US citizens. Please stop the support and do whatever you can to bring this terrible situation to the attention of the world. Thank you
Ms. Rebel Owens
Miami FL, USA
Mr. Bishnu Pathak
Human Rights Activist;
PhD candidate on People's War and Human Rights in Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal
Ms. Barbara Duffield
Development worker
Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Stephen V. Colf
Newhall CA, USA
Ms. Janice Katherine Carr
Student
UK
Ms. Elizabeth Douglas
Cambridge MA, USA
Mr. Joachim Holland
Student
Australia
Dr. Sara Friedman
Dept. of Anthropology
Washington University
St. Louis MO, USA
Dr. Gregory G. Maskarinec
Research Director
Department of Family Practice and Community Health
John A. Burns School of Medicine
University of Hawai'i
Honolulu HI, USA
Awarded the "Birendra Prajyalankar" by His Late Majesty King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, on the recommendation of the Nepal Royal Academy, July 1997.
Mahendra Scholar, Tribhuvan University 1981-1983.
US Peace Corps, Nepal 1977-81
Ms. Pelpina Sahureka
International Representation for Maluku (Moluccas)
Moluccas
US military aid in Indonesia has upheld until now Indonesian repressive system. The Kopassus, the special elite commando troops of Indonesia, that is trained by and in the US, is still committing warcrimes and crimes against humanity in Maluku (Moluccas) killing more than 40,000 innocent Moluccans both Christians and Muslims in the last three years. So be warned.
Ms. Annemary Vogelweid
Loretto Network for Nonviolence
Bonner Springs KS, USA
Mr. Sean Williams
Dept. of Environmental Studies
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR USA
Mr. Kevin Bubriski
Shaftsbury, VT, USA
Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal 1975-78
Ms. Dawn Marie Stief
Seattle, USA
Mr. BJ Wissink
St. Future for Children,
The Netherlands
who help children in Nepal and have noticed great fear among the Nepalis
USA BACK OFF! Fight hunger!
Mr. Walter Smith
Professional Engineer
Auckland, New Zealand
Mr. Brian Bromwich
Chartered Civil Engineer
Dublin, Ireland
I worked as an engineer on the World Bank funded Sunsari Morang Irrigation Project in Kosi Zone Nepal from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1986.
I agree entirely with the view of this letter.
Ms. Rhonda Wilhelm
Public Health Professional
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer - Nepal
I suggest that the proposed military aid for Nepal instead be granted to organizations such as the Carter Center to promote political dialogue and democracy. All too often aid bestowed upon developing countries offers a band-aid type of assistance, rather than addressing core problems. Twenty million dollars could go a long way in efforts to promote peace . . . with a more sustainable 'bang' for the buck than gunfire.
Ms. Radha Adhikari
Oxford, UK
Military aid just fuels the conflict, and is no solution to Nepal's current and deep rooted problems.
Dr. Edith Cassel
Cornell University
Senior Lecturer (Physics)
Ithaca NY, USA
Dr. Mary M. Cameron
Director, Women's Studies Center
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL, USA
Ms. Hanne Buder-Leitgen
Germany
Ms. Ilona Kaltula
Rome, Italy
Ms. Lisa Cole
San Francisco CA, USA
Ms. Mandy Evans
Desert Springs, USA
Author of Travelling Free: How to Recover From the Past
Ms. Diane Konieczny
Langhorne PA, USA
Dr. Lewis Pepper
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston MA, USA
Dr. Donald B. Zobel
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR, USA
I taught as a Fulbright professor in Kathmandu in 1984-5, and had an active research project from 1998-2000.
Ms. Amy Marie Mayhew
Medical student
Rochester NY, USA
Ms. Patricia A. Naffky
Licensed massage therapist
Buffalo NY, USA
Ms. Chaun MacQueen
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer: Dandeldhura, Nepal 1997-1999
Eugene OR, USA
Dr. Sybille Manneschmidt
International Health Consultant
Pincher Creek, Canada
The US Gov. should use its influence to support a political solution to the conflict in Nepal
Mr. Robert Anger
Santa Monica CA, USA
Dr. Damian Walter
Department of Anthropology
School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London
London, UK
Father Ludwig Damian
Pastor
Nu§loch, Germany
Ms. Sofia M. Gluck
Graduate, Cornell University
Member, Cornell Nepali Association
Ithaca NY, USA
Dr. Jamie Frueh
History and Political Science Department
Bridgewater College
Bridgewater, Virginia, USA
Ms. Karen Leroux
Student
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Dr. Barney Rosedale, MBBS, DTM&H, DCH, DObstRCOG
Marlborough, Wilts UK
I am a founder member and trustee of Britain Nepal Medical Trust (BNMT) which has worked in Eastern Nepal for over 30 years.
Professor Sherry B. Ortner
Dept. of Anthropology
Columbia University
New York NY, USA
Mr. Jeffrey Potter
Madison WI, USA
Money for relief, yes. Money for arms or arms themselves - no.
Dr. Jennifer Nadeau
Citizen
New York, USA
Dr. Charles Mcnair
Family Care, PC
Woodbury, Ct. USA
Dr. Brett de Bary
Asian Studies Department
Cornell University
Ithaca NY, USA
Dr. Geoff Childs
Dept. of Anthropology
Washington University
St. Louis MO, USA
Dr. Joel Anderson
Dept. of Philosophy
Washington University
St. Louis MO, USA
Ms. Marina Illich
PhD Candidate
Dept. of Religion
Columbia University
New York NY, USA
Ms. Sarah Louise Staves
PhD student (specialist area: Nepal/tourism)
Manchester University
Manchester, UK
Ms. Kristine Alsvik
Student
Centre for Development and the Environment
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
Professor Seena B. Kohl
Webster University
St. Louis MO, USA
Mr. Timothy Reynolds Whyte
Nepal researcher and former BASE worker in Dang, Nepal
Copenhagen, Denmark
Ms. Renate Genz
Bonn, Germany
Ms. Stephanie Suhowatsky
Kathmandu, Nepal
Ms. Rathika Rethinasamy
Post Graduate Architecture &
Development Practices Student
UK
Ms. Euyryung Jun
Graduate student
South Asia Program,
Cornell University
Kathmandu, Nepal
Ms. Zofia Kobylinska
Teacher
Baglung, Nepal
Mr. Thomas Robertson
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI USA
Ms. Anne Erpelding
Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. Tom Griffin
Teacher
(volunteered in Eastern Nepal a year ago for 5 months)
Exeter, UK
Dr. Suderson Prasad Gautam
Veterinarian
Nepal
Ms. Martha Kohl
Citizen
Helena, Montana
Mr. Richard E. Hangen
VHB,Inc
Medfield Mass USA
Dr. Stacy Leigh Pigg
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Canada
As a US citizen, I oppose US military aid to Nepal.
Dr. Mark Howarth
General Medical Practitioner in UK and ex voluntary worker in Nepal
Chichester, UK
The last thing in thing in the world that Nepal needs right now is military aid.
Ms. Mary Swain
Sisters of Loretto
Nerinx, Kentucky, USA
Ms. Chiara Letizia
PhD History of Religions
University of Rome
Rome, Italy
Ms. Karen Southern
Social Work
Brighton, UK
Ms. Jeanne Cannata
Boston, USA
Ms. Mary Ann McGivern
Sisters of Loretto
St. Louis, Missouri
Ms. Heather J Shaw
RN
USA
Mr. Tejshree Thapa
The Netherlands
Ms. Dorothea Friederici
Retired Personnel Director, UMNepal
Filderstadt, Germany
Dr. Siobhan Crowley
Doctor of Medicine
Switzerland
Mr. Frank Kolesnik
Musician
Austria
Mr. Fred Iutzi
Candidate for M.S. in Sustainable Agriculture
Iowa State University
Ames, IA, USA
Mr. Kenneth D. Croes
Graduate Student
Princeton University
Madison, WI, USA
Dr. Sarah LeVine
Research Associate,
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Cambridge, MA, USA
Ms. Jessica Erin Tierney
Student, Development Studies
Providence, RI USA
Ms. Adrienne Cameron
W. Bloomfield, USA
Mr. Eric Toepfer
Political scientist
Co-editor of the German online magazine www.suedasien.info
Berlin, Germany
Dr. Martin Dietz
Stuttgart, Germany
Ms. Patricia Negreros-Castillo
Iowa State University
Ames, IA, USA
Please create peace, no more of this nonsense and killing inocent people.
Mr. Valentin Picasso
Iowa State University
Ames, IA, USA
Dr. Pramod Dhakal
Sion Software International
Ottawa, Canada
It is imperative that the USA, a country which likes itself to be seen as a greatest protector of democracy in the world, would respect peopleÕs will and would not help a King kill its citizens purely on the ground of suspicion (no proof required, no need to take a person to the court). No government in the world should be permitted to kill non-combatant civilians even if they oppose the government doctrines and sympathize with opponents of the government. Ideally we should not kill our political opponents. Even if that were not to be respected, at no time we kill the sympathizers of our political opponents.
Also, the situation in Nepal is that of a Civil War and is not that of a war between terrorism and anti-terrorism. It would be unethical for a conscious human to help kill the opponent of his/her views. NepalÕs Maiosts do not fall into the category of Terrorists although their ideology is extremely different than western-democracy.
Furthermore, a constitution of a country should be ratified by the majority of its citizens and should not be imposed by a King to its subjects as in old feudal system. It is important that a country like the USA lets Nepali people make their constitution and let them decide how much power they want to give to the King. Please do not let any dysfunctional government or ruler in the world rule ruthlessly and without listening to the grievances of its people.
Let us create an environment where true negotiations can take place and where the grievances of all parties can be heard.
Mr. Bev Hoffman
USA
Ms. Michelle Sorensen
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
Ms. Elizabeth Ruth Lempp
Member of the Board,
Living Without Weapons ( Ohne Ruestung Leben)
Stuttgart, Germany
Ms. Diana Hainsworth
Fellow of Royal Asiatic Society
London, UK
Dr. Deepak Mahara
Kathmandu, Nepal
Ms. Carol Inskipp
Consultant in environmental education
Wisbech, UK
Ms. Ann-Marie S. Finan
Ph.D. Precandidate
Sustainable Agriculture
Iowa State Univeristy
Ames, IA, USA
Professor Lionel Caplan
Professorial Research Associate
and Emeritus Professor,
School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London
London, UK
Dr. Terence Hay-Edie
Research Associate,
Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit,
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
Nepal like everywhere else needs weapons of mass salvation (equitable development), not weapons of mass destruction.
Mr. Steve Conlon
Director, Above the Clouds Trekking
Hinesburg, VT USA
Ms. Martha Shaughnessy
Landis Communications, Inc.
San Francisco, CA USA
Professor Michael J. Casimir
Department of Anthropology,
University of Cologne
Cologne, Germany
Ms. Karylann Love
Concerned American Citizen about to adopt my first child from Nepal.
Tampa, FL USA
Dr. Aparna Rao
Department of Anthropology,
University of Cologne
Cologne, Germany
Dr. Catherine R. Mumaw
Education Adviser in Nepal 1995-99
Corvallis, OR
The need in Nepal is not for military aid but for a reasoned approach to resolving conflicts and rebuilding the country through assistance to meet basic human needs. I hope the allocated funds of the U.S. government can be diverted for humanitarian purposes. The Nepalese people deserve it.
Ms. Jessica Vantine
Graduate Student
Dept. of South Asian Languages & Civilizations
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA
Professor Sarah C. Richards
Department of International Health
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston, MA, USA
Mr. Pablo Javier Segovia
Tour Operator/Guide
Cusco, Peru
Ms. Nicole Elizabeth Dodge
university student
extended child-care giver for at-risk youth
Davis, WV, USA
Ms. Lisa Hickey
Washington, DC USA
Ms. Claire Hangen
Medfield, MA, USA
My son-in-law is from Nepal and his family is keeping us aware of the situation in Nepal.
Mr. Robert B. Ryan
Patron
Portland, Oregon
Ms. Abby Berniker
Student, Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
Dr. Thomas Webster
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston, USA
Dr. Manfred Gruhl
Consultant, Gynecology/Obstetrics Dept.
County Hospital
Roth, Germany
I have been working as Volunteer Doctor in Bangladesh, Nigeria and Samoa and have also been visiting Nepal. I«m convinced, that increasing military pressure will fail to bring peace to Nepal.
Ms. Jennifer Borman
Educational Researcher
Providence, RI, USA
Dr. Ben Campbell
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Manchester
Manchester, UK
Ms. Christine Anneberg
Brown University
Providence RI, USA
Mr. Garett Pratt
Social scientist
U.K.
Dr. David Lelyveld
William Paterson University of New Jersey
Wayne, NJ, USA
Dr. Thamora Fishel
Franklin and Marshall College
Lancaster, PA
Martha M. Tack
Office of Development,
Brown University
Providence, RI, USA
Dr. Kenneth Ralph Hanson
Himalayan Photographer.
Retired Agricutural Scientist, State of Connecticut
Orange, CT, USA
I have made many photographic trips into various parts of Nepal.In a land with so many cultural fault lines only discussions and negotiations offer a chance for peace.
Professor Janet Sturgeon
Brown University
Providence, RI, USA
Mr. Francis Rolt
Media Programme manager
Common Ground Productions
Brussels, Belgium
Dr. Roscoe Roy Coats
Retired surgeon
Former medical missionary to Nepal
USA
Ms. Meena Shivdas
Institute of Development Studies
Brighton, UK
Ms. Janet Illeni
Kalamazoo MI USA
Dr. Bal Gopal Shrestha
Leiden University
Leiden, NL
I oppose any kind of support in esclating violence in Nepal and urge all parties to act to bring back peace in Nepal.
Dr. Don Conway-Long
Behavioral & Social Sciences Dept.
Webster University
St. Louis, MO, USA
Mr. Jšrg Chrestin
Systems Administrator
Windeck, Germany
Mr. Heinz Sternke
Teacher
Sankt Augustin, Germany
Ms. Renate Piacente
Austria
Dr. Michael Muehlich
Social Anthropologist
Institute of Ethnology
University of Leipzig
and
SAP Consultant Human Resources, Frankfurt
Germany
The state law (Muluki Ain) in Nepal has dedicated hardly one and a half pages to the rights of workers (i.e., nearly nothing) but more than 300 pages to the rights of those who possess land, and especially to the benefit of those who possess a lot of land. The 20 million $US aid should better be used to help to prepare and implement a more balanced constitution.
Mr. Ajaya KC
Journalist
Germany
It is the Nepali people who should decide what we need for us.
Dr. Donald H. Patterson
former Medical Director of an an aid programme in Nepal
UK.
Dr. Gillian Holdsworth
Physician
U.K.
Mr. Deepak Raj Gajurel
Research Engineer
Hamburg, Germany
Dr. Seira Tamang
Center for Social Research and Development
Kathmandu, Nepal
Dr. Lauren Leve
Vst. Assistant Professor
New School University
New York, NY, USA
Mr. Krishna Khatiwada
President,
Nepalese People's Progressive Forum, Belgium
Antwerpen, Belgium
We strongly oppose any efforts of imperialist aggression.
Dr. Charles Chris Carpenter
Wildlands Studies Program
San Francisco State University,
College of Extended Learning
Claremont, CA USA
Mr. Torsten Otto
student of Political Science
Berlin, Germany
Mr. Max Fischer
Columbia University
College of Physicians & Surgeons
New York, NY USA
Dr. Sara Pines
Director
Friendship Donations Network
Ithaca, NY USA
Mr. Dhurba Basnet
Independent documentary filmmaker
Nepal
We need peace and development.
Ms. Susal Stebbins
Nuns Welfare Foundation
Kathmandu, Nepal
U.S. Ambassador Michael Malinowski has made some very helpful comments about the need for the current Nepali government to take more responsibility to act in the interest of the people (assisting in poverty reduction, ending corruption, working together rather than fighting among themselves) rather than for their own gain, the need to improve the human rights situation, and the need to talk with the Maoists to come to a ceasefire and lay the groundwork for meaningful elections. These are the points that the U.S. government should be supporting. Encouraging the belief that military force can solve Nepal's problems, whether through providiing military aid or other means, will only cause more suffering.
Mr. Ramesh Thapa
NTBA, WWHN
Texas, USA
Dr. Janet M. Lang
Associate Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston MA, USA
Dr. Randy John LaPolla
City University of Hong Kong
Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Ms. Jean Rowley
R.N.
Ithaca NY, USA
Mr. Darel E. Grothaus
citizen of the U.S.A.
Seattle WA, USA
Ms. Faith Wilder Grothaus
citizen of the U.S.A.
Seattle WA, USA
Ms. Eugenia McGill
New York City, USA
Professor Geoffrey Samuel
School of Social Sciences
University of Newcastle
Newcastle, Australia
Mr. William P. Mitchell
Visiting scholar, Chemistry Dept.,
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI, USA
As a UK citizen I have expressed my concerns to the UK Govt over their 'assistance' to Nepal. Likewise, I would like to respectfully raise similar concerns with the US Govt.
Ms. Sushma Joshi
La Guardia College,
Queens, NY USA
Dr. Ted Riccardi
Dept. of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures
Columbia University
New York NY, USA
Mr. Anthony Amend
Teacher, Catalina Island Marine Institute
Avalon CA, USA
Ms. Jennifer C Foster
Student, Harvard Divinity School
Cambridge MA, USA
Ms. Kirsti Hietarinta
Tyler MN, USA
If US military aid goes to Nepal, then perhaps peacekeeping forces should also go to monitor and ensure that for the next several years, while democracy is being reestablished, that forces of the King do not commit more attrocities against their own civilian population, as has been apparently occurring. To not ensure that further atrocities are not committed with American funding is to aid and abbett the atrocities. The current US administration will be held accountable of this by future generations, because it has been made aware, via this petition, of what is really going on. Ok, let's help these people, but the Nepali government forces need to be accountable for their actions, and the restoration of elected representation in Nepal needs to be our primary focus, if we are to interfere at all. The removal of the Al Qaida threat, as important as it is to American security, should not be our only concern. Encouragement of democracy, education and rights for women, and greater fairness for the citizens of countries that we have ties with should be a priority. This will help to bring more moderate attitudes toward the West into these countries, which will help to weaken support for Al Qaida at the local levels in these countries.
Dr. Herb Koplowitz
Registered Psychologist, Ontario Canada
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Nepal 14
Canada
I am an American citizen and a registered U.S. voter. The government of Nepal has been consistently undemocratic and devastating to the population. Please do not support it with more military aid.
Ms. Roswita Schmidt
formerly long term development worker in Nepal
(training management)
Germany
Mr. Charles Hamilton
Graduate Student
Cornell University
Ithaca NY, USA
Dr. Gregory A. Hillis
Lecturer, Tibetan and Sanskrit
Department of Religious Studies
U.C., Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara CA USA
Ms. Yasuko Fujikura
Nepal researcher
New School University
New York NY, USA
Ms. Signe N¿rmose
Anthropologist,
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark
Ms. Frances Garrett
Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
Dr. Almira Hoogesteyn
Graduate student, Cornell University
Ithaca NY, USA
With no justice, no peace, when are we going to learn the lesson?
Mr. Rajiv Rawat
MES Degree Candidate,
Faculty of Environmental Studies,
York University
Toronto, Canada
Solidarity from Uttarakhand for our Nepali brothers and sisters.
Dr. Judith Pettigrew
Senior Lecturer
Department of Health Studies
University of Central Lancashire
UK
Ms. Leila E. Thompson
Registered Nurse,
Trekking and Climbing Guide in Nepal for over 13 years.
Bend, OR USA
The current situation in Nepal is nothing but tragic for everyone involved. As the violence escalates and the country heads toward civil war and people become more impoverished, domestic abuse and alcoholism will continue to escalate as well. The real cost of this war will be all but invisible to the outside world.
Dr. R. Grubesic
Houston TX, USA
Professor Daniel H. Kohl
Department Biology
Washington University
St. Louis, MO USA
Professor Jane Fajans
Department of Anthropology
Cornell University
Ithaca NY USA
Professor Matthew Evangelista
Professor of Government
and Director, Peace Studies Program
Cornell University
Ithaca NY USA
Dr. Ben Kohl
Assistant Professor
Temple University
Philadelphia PA, USA
Ms. Laura Phillips
Phoenix, OR USA
Ms. Melinda Pilling, MA
South Asian Languages and Civilizations,
University of Chicago
Midwest Immigrant and Human Rights Center
Chicago IL, USA
Ms. Karen Valentin
Assistant Research Professor,
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark
Ms. Patricia Roberts
Journalist representing Newsweek magazine in Nepal, 1994-2001
USA
Ms. Meghan Nutting
student
Ithaca NY, USA
Professor David Germano
University of Virginia
Charlottesville VA, USA
Ms. Avantika Regmi
USA
Dr. Leroy Hersh
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
MIT
Painted Post NY, USA
Mr. Ramesh Maskey
Research Engineer, M.Sc.
University of Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe, Germany
The present conflict in Nepal must be resolved through negotiation between the GON and the CPN (Maoist). The third party involvement should rather facilitate such negotiation than escalating the conflict. Poverty and inequality in sharing resources for peopleÕs survival are the well-known root causes of the present conflict. Nepal needs support for poverty alleviation and for strengthening her hard-owned democracy. Any act for escalating conflict in Nepal (be it physical, moral and financial) is subject to condemnation.
Mr. Steven Curtis
Cornell University
Ithaca NY, USA
Ms. Avis Lang
New York, NY USA
Professor Elliot Podwill
The City University of New York
New York NY, USA
Ms. Linda Farthing
Journalist
Ithaca, New York, USA
Mr. David Dilling
Tourism Student
Morgantown, WV USA
Mr. Leif Bjellin
Lecturer, University of Lund
Lund, Sweden
Professor William F. Fisher
International Development, Community, and Environment
Clark University
Worcester, MA USA
Dr. Christopher Tarnowski
Asssistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Drew University
Madison NJ, USA
Dr. Ian Harper
Lecturer in Anthropology
School of Oriental and African Studies
London, UK
Mr. Anand Swaroop Verma
Member, India-Nepal People's Solidarity Forum
New Delhi, India
Ms. Sandra MacDonagh
Brighton, U.K.
I agree with everything laid out in the memorandum and letter.
Dr. Arjun Karki, MD
Kathmandu University Medical School
Banepa, Kavrepalanchok, Nepal
Since we all know that violence begets violence, military aid is not a good idea and is very unlikely to bring a lasting peace in Nepal. It is totally appalling to see so many Nepali die every day. Enough is enough. So those countires, governments, organizations and people who are in a position to help resolve the situation for the betterment of Nepal and Nepali people should try to get the conflict resolved politically and through peaceful negotiation. Public opinions are building up in Nepal in favor of constituent assembly as the only viable means to resolve the current political conflict in a logical, peaceful and lasting manner. These voices need to be heard. Hence, it will be wise on the part of all concerned to support / facilitate this process. Otherwise, the price that Nepal and the Nepali people will have to pay in terms of lives lost, suffering and disruption of socio-economic fabric of the country will be tremendous. Let us hope that sanity will prevail.
Dr. Claudio Schuftan MD
Public Health Consultant
Hanoi, Vietnam
Dr. Tautscher Gabriele
Dep. of Ethnology, Cultural and Social Anthropology,
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Ms. Ellen Skeele
American, founded,funded and managed Nepali company to create JOBS
Kathmandu Nepal
Mr. Walter Keller
Journalist
Dortmund, Germany
Dr. Jagannath Adhikari
Martin Chautari
Kathmandu, Nepal
Mr. T.S.S. Mani
Convenor, Human Rights-Tamilnadu Initiative
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, South India
Already Nepal is a small country strangled by the feudal monorchial regime and cornered by the Indian expansionists. To add fuel to the fire raised by the local rulers U.S.imperialists are importing their arms race on a South Asian country which should be condemned in the bud itself.
Mr. Vaios Papatheocharis
PhD Candidate
Department of Philosophy
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Ms. Anita M. Donahue
Portland, OR USA
We have a Newar Buddhist Master living with us. We have inside reports from his family on the corruption and lack of rule of law in Nepal. Any support for the current regime will result in US citizens being guilty of funding human rights abuse in this previously peaceful country.
Mr. Peter Owens
Kathmandu, Nepal
Dr. Dale E. Otto
Central Washington University,
Ellensburg, WA. USA
and
Africa University
P.O. Box 1320
Mutare, Zimbabwe
U.S. government attention to this request is deeply important.
Mr. Harsh Kapoor
South Asia Citizens Web
France
Ms. Barbara Pijan Lama
Yak Tails Treks, NEPAL
Portland, OR, USA
Nepal's current civil war has crippled our family's 30-year-old Himalayan trekking business. US military aid will create a bigger civil war that will completely destroy Nepal's trekking industry - a major source of legitimate income for Nepal. Common people are fighting their government because they are sick of poverty & exploitation! Nepal needs sustainable economic development not more debilitating war. Military aid - no! Food and educational aid - yes! USA can show better judgment.
Ms. Madeleine Scammell
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston MA, USA
Ms. Shannon Harriman
Portland, ME. USA
Mr. Russ Chandler
Kangchenjunga (Nepal) School Project
Issaquah, WA USA
Professor Kim Gutschow
Wesleyan University
Middletown CT, USA
Ms. Cherie Bremer-Kamp. R.N.
U.C.S.F. Medical Center
Liver Transplant Division
San Francisco CA, USA
Ms. Monica D. Church
Independant Artist and
Adjunct Instructor, Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York
Professor Pramod Parajuli
Portland State Univesity
Portland OR, USA
Ms. W. Oudhof
Amsterdam, Holland
Dr. Mary Anne Mercer
University of Washington
School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Seattle WA, USA
Ms. Heather Hindman
University of Chicago
Chicago IL, USA
Mr. Wilko Verbakel
Treasurer, International Council for Friends of Nepal(ICFON)
Netherlands
Professor Donatella Rossi
University of Rome
Rome, Italy
Ms. Janet Elaine Ebaugh
Associate Director,
Katharine Ordway Natural History Study Area,
Macalester College
Saint Paul MN, USA
Dr. Andrew Paul Lyons
Chair,
Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
Wilfrid Laurier University,
Waterloo, Ont., Canada
Ms. Susan Baum
Seattle, WA USA
Ms. Nerissa Wu
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston, MA USA
Dr. Sheila Haley
Brown University
Providence RI, USA
Dr. Ganga Bahadur Thapa
Department of Political Science Education,
Tribhuvan University,
Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal
I fully agree, military approach cannot solve problems --it further complicates the situation. Moreover, it is a fascist idea and cannot be justified in any moral grounds.
Mr. Richard B. Gann
Rhode Island School of Design
Johnson & Wales University
Providence RI, USA
Mr. H. David Carlson
RPCV - Nepal (1964)
Member of Friends of Nepal
Boulder CO, USA
Having an association with Nepal that goes back 40 years I see no justification that warrents this expenditure.
Ms. Lhakpa Doma Sherpa
Hennef, Germany
Ms. Elizabeth Jordan
Flint, MI USA
It is a shame that such a great portion of our country's foreign aid comes in the form of military helicopters, bombs, and missiles. Our world does not become safer by arming the world.
Dr. Karl-Heinz KrŠmer
South Asia Institute
Heidelberg, Germany
Ms. Claudia Pereira
Student of ethnic political organizations
Brazil
Mr. Neelkamal Chhetri
writer/ freelance journalist
Darjeeling, India
Nepal does not need military aid from us but needs economic aid and assistance in getting market access into the us economy in settling the maoist movement n bringing peace into nepal so that she can develop her economy which will benefit all sections of the nepalese society.
Dr. David Ozonoff, MD, MPH
Professor and Chair
Department of Environmental Health
Boston University School of Public Health
Boston MA, USA
I strongly oppose the promotion of violent and coercive means as a means of foreign policy. Any allegedly desireable ends must not blind us to the reckless cruelty of the means.
Mr. Padma Khadka
Coordinator,
Organization of Progressive Intellectuals, Nepal
Patan, Nepal
We don't want war. We want to resolve our problems ourselves.
Dr. Polly T. Fabian
Clinical Faculty,
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle WA, USA
Mr. Brian Kerecz
Bethlehem, PA USA
Mr. Dhruba Prasad Acharya
Hubert Humphrey Fellow
School of Public Affairs
University of Washington
Seattle WA, USA
Arms cannot solve the problems, instead it further deteriorates the situation. We need support to bring peace not further killings. I was surprised at the justification given by the Bush government.
Ms. Laurie Ann Vasily
Current Fulbright-Hays Scholar
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Education
Cornell University
Ithaca NY, USA
Dr. Nancy E. Levine
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Chair, International Development Studies
University of California
Los Angeles, CA USA
Mr. Benjamin C Tamblyn
Post-graduate medical anthropology student
Brunel University,
West London, UK
I am currently completing a developmental and political anthropological thesis on the state of NGO health care service provision in theÊconflict districts of Nepal (and plan to begin a PhD on the same subject in the fall of 2003), so I feel very close to this issue at the moment. I agree wholeheartedly with your perspectives andÊappreciate the efforts you have made to make this petition so well informed and authoritative.Ê
Professor Barbara Brower
Geography/International Studies,
Portland State University
Portland OR, USA
thanks guys -- lots of time invested; let's hope it makes a difference
Dr. Hazel Jane Teas
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC USA
Ms. Kristen Elizabeth Strassner
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
(Past Participant in the Cornell-Nepal Study Programme)
Albany, New York, USA
Dr. Susan Hangen
Ramapo College
Mahwah, NJ, USA
Ms. Judith A. Bronson
USA
Mr. Stuart Gardner
Research Associate
Ames, IA 50010 USA
Mr. Dorje Gurung
Teacher, UWC-USA
Montezuma, NM, USA
What Nepal needs is a hand not arms!
Professor David Zurick
Department of Geography
Eastern Kentucky University
Richmond, KY, USA
Mr. Michael Ross
Museum consultant
Edmonton, Canada
Mr. Robert Peirce
Editor, NEWS FROM NEPAL
USA
Ms. Anne Rademacher
Doctoral Candidate
Environmental Studies and Anthropology
Yale University
New Haven CT, USA
Mr. Kishore Shrestha
Accountant/Office Manager
Seattle WA, USA
Intimidation/pain = fear
fear = hatred
Does that sound like a solution?
Dr. Gerald W. Hankins
Retired Surgeon
Service with the United Mission to Nepal 1974-86
Canada
Military aid will only exacerbate the struggle. The U.S. and Canada have been major suppliers of non-military aid to Nepal over the years. Now is the opportunity for these two countries to exert pressure on King Gyanendra (who has assumed all executive powers) to seek a peaceful solution.
Ms. Mary Baylor
Writer
Seattle WA, USA
Dr. Sharad Onta
Physicians for Social Responsibility, Nepal (PSRN)
Kathmandu, Nepal
Dr. Philip Chase
County College of Morris
Randolph, NJ USA
Ms. Diane Baldwin
Community mental health coordinator
Toronto, Canada
Mr. David Baldwin
Community Services professional, retired
Toronto, Canada
The case has been eloquently made in the lettter attached.
Mr. Kiran Nakarmi
Salt Lake City UT, USA
US wants to disarm NKorea and Iraq but sells arms to poor countries who cannot even buy food for their own people. US celebrates Pearl Harbor rememberance day but never has it apologized for what it has done in Hiroshima, Nagashaki, Vietnam, Afganistan, Cuba- well my friend the list is too long to mention!!!
Ms. Natasha Wozniak
Jersey City, NJ USA
Mr. Andrew Kahn
Student
Staten Island, New York
Mr. Stan Armington
Malla Treks
Kathmandu, Nepal
Ms. Manjushree Thapa
Writer
Kathamndu, Nepal
Mr. Robert Xavier
Writer
San Francisco, California, USA
Mr. Giri Raj Kattel
Environmental Change Research Centre
University College London
Lonon, UK
Professor David Seddon
Professor of Development Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich, UK
Mr. Mark Ludwick
USA
Mr. Christopher Thoms
Ph.D. Candidate
School of Natural Resources and Environment
University of Michigan
Plover, USA
Dr. D. Elizabeth Cuadra, MSc., J.D.
Lawyer/engineer/horticulturist
Juneau, Alaska, USA
I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal 1997-1999, and have been following events in Nepal ever since. Both sides (CPN - Maoist, and the police and Army) have atrocious human rights records. Sending armaments to a government with such an outrageous human rights record can only result in more extrajudicial killings and other human rights abuses, including those against innocent noncombatants. Just read the State Department's annual country report (Nepal)on human rights, and similar reports from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch! More armaments will only escalate the civil war and not bring the parties to the negotiating table. Let's not compound the mistake the U.S. made some months ago, in sending six gunship helicopters to the Nepal government. Mediation by an external and neutral entity (such as the UN) would be a far more promising option.
Dr. Mahesh K. Maskey MBBS, MPH, DSc.
International Councillor,
Physicians for Social Responsibility Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal
Dr. Stephen Bezruchka MD, MPH
Senior Lecturer
Department of Health Services
School of Public Health and Community Medicine
University of Washington
and
Emergency physician,
Group Health and Virginia Mason Hospitals
Seattle, WA USA
Dr. Colin Hanbury
Agricultural Scientist
CLIMA
University of Western Australia
Perth, Australia
Dr. King Beach
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI USA
I have worked in Nepal as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer, as a consultant with USAID and UNDP, and as a Fulbright scholar. American financial aid to Nepal's military will move that nation one step further toward the reinstitution of an absolute monarchy, and away from its fragile and hard-won democracy. This use of U.S. funds contradicts the Bush administration's avowed support of democracies, and will only provide further justification to movements such as the current Maoist movement.
Dr. Gary Shostak, MPH
Director of Health Services
Massachusetts Department of Youth Services
Boston MA, USA
As a former Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal from 1967-69, as someone who loves the country and people, has followed its changes I am convinced that both military and humanitarian aid is contrary to the interests of the Nepali people and is at least partly responsible (along w/ other factors) for the rebellion. Graft, corruption and theft of foreign aid creates a kind of welfare for the elites - the ruling political classes/castes - and fosters the conditions that has lead to the Maoist rebellion. The rebellion began as political reformation and, for reasons I do not fully understand, turns on those they seek to liberate and become as onerous and exploitative as the Zamindars, money lenders and political theives. Military aid to the ruling elite will only lead to endless killing and Nepal will fast become indistinguishable from Sri Lanka or Colombia, and other endless cycles of class hatred. Perhaps all western do-gooders should withdraw their money and development schemes and leave the Nepalese to solve their own problems. They are, after all, not Nepali so we have quaint places and people to visit. And they're not stupid. Only an internal reformation of the insidious aspects of their social structure and caste system will change that society for the better. And if they do not do it themseves, we cannot do it for them and only become unwitting and sometimes witless accomplices in our clumsy attempts to help.
Mr. Christopher Jay Busick
Librarian - U of Colorado, Boulder
Boulder CO, USA
Ms. Susanna Pearce
Co-Executive Director
Educate the Children, Inc.
(NGO with projects in Nepal)
Ithaca, New York USA
Ms. Dawn Kaufmann
Ph.D. canidate
Dept of Anthropology
Washington University
St. Louis MO, USA
Mr. John Norem
Tucson AZ, USA
Ms. Cabeiri deB. Robinson
PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
Cornell University
Ithaca NY, USA
Dr. Arjun Guneratne
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Macalester College
St. Paul, MN USA
Professor Piers Macleod Blaikie
School of Development Studies,
University of East Anglia
Norwich, UK
Dr. Oliver Springate-Baginski
Senior Research Fellow,
University of East Anglia,
Norwich, UK
Dr. Mary Des Chene
Co-Editor,
Studies in Nepali History & Society
and
Research Affiliate
Centre for Social Research and Development, Kathmandu
Atlanta GA, USA
Dr. Stephen Mikesell
IndyMedia-Madison
Madison, WI USA
This military aid will make US weapons manufacturers and local Nepali elites rich, but it will lead to regional instability and human suffering of untold proportion. Although it justifies itself in terms of anti-terrorism, it and the larger bill it is part of have nothing to do with protecting American security, nothing to do with democracy, and everything to do with expanding the Bush oiligarchy's geopolitical interests at home and abroad.
Dr. John J. Metz
Department of History and Geography
Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, KY USA
Ms. Sara Schneiderman
Doctoral student
Department of Anthropology
Cornell University
Ithaca NY, USA
Having spent two years living in a Maoist-affected area, I can report from experience that any additional militarization of this conflict will only hurt Nepalis of all political persuasions further. A diplomatic solution attentive to Nepal's long history of inequality and state-sponsored violence is the only possible way out of the conflict.
Ms. Sage Radachowsky
Nepal Solidarity Network
and University of Connecticut
Boston MA, USA
There is no military solution to a social problem. A new paradigm is needed; grassroots development and local autonomy are the only options which will work in the long term. I don't expect the U.S. administration to cede this, but it is the only way to a better society. Please see Nepal Solidarity Network.
Dr. Chitra K. Tiwari
Freelance writer and political analyst
Arlington VA, USA
Mr. Mukunda Raj Kattel
Human Rights Activist
Bangkok, Thailand
Dr. Kathryn S. March
Department of Anthropology
Cornell University
Ithaca NY, USA
Professor Ernestine McHugh
University of Rochester
Rochester NY, USA
Dr. Mathura Prasad Shrestha
President, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Nepal
and
Chairperson, People's Health Assembly National Coordination Committee, Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal
I gladly sign the appeal to prevent arms sale to Nepal as every gun or bullet imported will target lives and property of the people, and preclude the possibility to live witout fear. I hope that people of all developed countries exporting arms will understand that this is equal to exporting death, destruction and prevention of tranquility.
