Can’t journalists not spread untruth?

South Asia Check / June 7, 2017

Photo: Ashishlohorung (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Whenever there is any report on Sher Bahadur Deuba or Kamaiya [indentured laborers], Nepali communications media present Deuba as the prime minister who liberated the Kamaiyas. When he was elected as prime minister on June 6, several communications media have credited him for liberating the Kamaiyas. Please view the link below:

http://southasiacheck.org/fact-check/deuba-wrongly-being-credited-for-kamaiya-abolition/

After Deuba’s election as prime minister on June 6, the following communications media have credited him for Kamaiya liberation:

http://annapurnapost.com/news/72618

http://www.nagariknews.com/news/21366/

http://thahakhabar.com/news/17443

http://hamrakura.com/news-details/25232/2017-06-06

शेरबहादुर देउवाका ७ ‘ओपन सेक्रेट्स’

http://everestdainik.com/2017/06/96025/

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