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Explosions:
Maoist
rebels bombed a restaurant in the tourist town pf Pokhara. No one was hurt
by the blast. Maoists exploded improvised explosives at an Ex-Army Boarding
School in Lamjung district. The Maoists have asked the school administration
to close the school before the blast.
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Attack:
Maoist rebels ransacked the office of a private FM radio station
in Kailali district. No one was injured.
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Secret talks: According to a tape played by the Royal Nepalese Army
(RNA), a voice attributed to Maoist chairman, Prachanda, claimed that the
Government of India had requested the Maoist leadership to come for dialogue
in India. Indian embassy in Kathmandu issued a press statement saying that
the allegations against India are completely false, baseless and far-fetched.
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Talks with Maoists: "It is in the interests of India to open a "line
of communications" with the Maoists, " the former senior official of the
Indian Army, General (Retd.) Ashok Mehta, said in an interview with
BBC News.
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School closure: Over a half dozen schools have been closed following
Maoist threats in Mugu district.
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Death toll: At least 2,100 soldiers of unified command and 8,000 Maoists
insurgents were killed during nine years of internal conflict, while 21,00
civilians were killed by the rebels during the same period, said a statement
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23
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Human rights:
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and International
Commission of Jurists
said
in a joint press release that Maoist rebels had repeatedly violated the
standards of international human rights and humanitarian laws. The three
organiazations questioned the credibility of repeated public commitments
made by CPN-Maoist Chairman Prachanda to respect international human rights
and humanitarian laws. |
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May
26
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Propaganda:
Maoist
leader Prachanda issued a statement , admitting it was his voice on the
tape but clarifying it was an earlier tape and not relevant to the current
times. Her dewscribewd the tape's contents as propaganda.
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Conspiracy:
According Maoist senior leader Baburam Bhattarai, the audiotape
in which Prachanda "tried to accuse him to be pro-Indian was completely
unfounded, misleading and intended at character assassination". Bhattarai
termed the release of the tape as a conspiracy theory. Bhattrai said he
had already asked the party headquarters to investigate over the entire
affair and bring the truth to public.
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Military training: In Syangja district Maoists are training the students
in different schools of rural areas in their janabadi education preparing
them for war.
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India's Nepal policy: Indian sources aver that the Maoists are at their
weakest now, and it would have been a good time for them to be part of
an emerging political alliance. Bhattarai's hobnobbing with India, sources
say, could leave the space open for a king-Maoist understanding, at India's
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May
28
2005
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India visit:
Maoist
leader Prachanda admitted thatBaburam Bhattarai and Krishna Bahadur Mahara
had visited New Delhi in recent days.
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Attack:
Maoists attacked three policemen at a local restaurant in Bhairahawa,
Rupandehi district. The policemen and two Maoists were killed in the clash.
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Polls: King Gyanendra said he planned to hold polls in phases to all
elected bodies in tNepal, but set no dates.
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Press law: A draconian ordinance that would entail severe punishment
to newspaper editors writing anything about the King or his relatives was
in the offing, sources said. |
May
30
2005
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Security action:
Security
forces and Maoist rebels clashed in Dailekh, Kanchanpur, Jumla and
Sarlahi districts. According to RNA sources several rebels were killed
during the security actions. There are no reports about casualties on the
security forces' side.
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School closure:
All
Nepal National Independent Student Union-Revolutionary (ANNISU-R), affiliated
to the Communist Party of Nepal Maoist (CPN-M), has forced dozens of private
schools across the country to close down. Private schools in Ilam, Panchthar,
Rupandehi, Palpa, Lamjung, Gorkha, Nawalparasi, and Baglung districts have
been closed following threats from ANNISU-R).
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Maoist contacts: Maoist
sources say that CPN-M was in touch with the alliance of seven political
parties that is waging a peaceful movement against the royal takeover of
February 1.
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Maoist contacts: Maoist
leader Prachanda said CPN-M is not looking for India's help. The party
has not urged any country to mediate with the state for talks. The maoists
did not regard India as a friend or potential mediator.
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Donor agencies: The
influential aid organisations German Development Agency (GTZ), the UK's
Department for International Development (DFID), United Nation's World
Food Programme (WFP) and the Dutch Cooperation Agency (SNV) will not attempt
to run development programmes in situations where staff are at risk. All
the donors are asking for is a public apology from the Maoists but so far
there has been little hint of the leadership taking the incident seriously.
The Maoist brutality especially against a young female worker from the
Himalayan Community Development Resource Centre, a local NGO, was clearly
a human rights violation, aid representatives maintain. |
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