Kathmandu, February 9:

A meeting of eight students union, which was held here today, decided to appeal to Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations, to file murder cases against the Home Minister and chairman of the Council of Ministers in an international court for the killing of Umesh Thapa, a cadre of the CPN-UML.

Security personnel had shot Thapa dead in Dang yesterday.

The students also decided to organise condolence meets in front of all the campuses tomorrow and submit their appeal to the UN house here on Monday.

According to Thakur Gaire, general secretary of the All-Nepal National Free Students’ Union (ANNFSU), the meeting also decided to urge the government to provide a compensation of Rs 15 lakh to the family of the victim.

It also decided to put pressure on the political parties to make the government pay the amount.

Meanwhile, eight students affiliated to the ANNFSU, who were among those protesting against the killing of Umesh Thapa, were injured in hour-long clashes with police today.

The students burnt tyres, chanted slogans against autocracy, halted traffic and clashed with police in front of Ascol and Saraswati Multiple Campus.

The police teargased the protesters. Students of the Chabahil-based Pashupati Multiple Campus organised a 45-minute ‘chakkajam’ in front of the campus.