UPDATE JOURNALISTS, RIGHTS ACTIVISTS STAGE SIT-IN AT SINGHA DURBAR Kathmandu, 10 Jan.: Rights activists and journalists Thursday in biting cold staged a sot-in front of Singha Durbar protesting Prie Minister Baburam Bhattarai’s now controversial comments calling for an end to investigations of five Maoists who confessed after eight years they murdered journalist Dekenda Thapa in Dailekh. The premier and his aide later retracted the comments that create nation-wide outrage for attempt to inquiry. Maoists and the premier hae een saying they want collective and not individual investigation of abuses during their insurgency ven as government amnesties individual Maoists for abuses. Nnnn PEDESTRIAN KILLED IN CHITWAN Kathmandu, 10 Jan.: A truck (Na 4 Kha 7628) en route to Kathmandu-from Bhairahawa knocked down a pedestrian at Darechowk in Chitwan district on Thursday, RSS reports from Ratnagar.. The District Police Office has informed that the deceased has been identified as Nar bahadur Oli, 69, of a Banke Bankatta-8 . The truck had knocked him while he was crossing the road. After first aid in a local clinic he was taken to Bharatpur Medical College where he breathed his last at 2:00 AM, police said. The police have impounded the truck and brought truck driver under control. Nnnn