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No violence: During their secret meeting, an influential leader of
the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Prakash Karat, told senior Nepali
Maoist leaders Baburam Bhattarai to give up violence and join the political
mainstream, media reports says.
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Meetings:
CPN (M) supremo Prachand said the objective of the meetings
with Indian leftist party leaders was to gauge India's stand if the CPN(Maoist)
were to accept a multi-party system as a political solution to the ongoing
civil war in Nepal.
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Constituent assembly: In an interview with BBC, senior Maoist leader
Baburam Bhattarai said the CPN (M) would accept (the result of the) constituent
assembly if the elections (for the assembly) were held in an impartial
way under international supervision.
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Attack:
Security forces have repulsed a major Maoist attack at a Armed
Police Force (APF) security base and a customs post near Nepal-India border
in Kanchanpur district. Maoist rebelsopened fire from three or four positions
simultaneously. There had been casualties on both sides.
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Attack:
Security forces have repulsed a major Maoist attack at a Armed
Police Force (APF) security base and a customs post near Nepal-India border
in Kanchanpur district. Maoist rebels opened fire from three positions
simultaneously. There had been casualties on both sides. |
June
02
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Detention visits: ICRC suspends visits to army detention centres. The
suspension comes after the Royal Nepali Army (RNA) allegedly failed to
comply fully with the terms of an agreement with the ICRC regarding what
are called 'worldwide working modalities.'
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Meeting:
A delegation team of CPN-UML in Lucknow, India, with
a possibility of holding dialogue with CPN (M) leaders within this week.
The Maoists leaders Dr. Babu Ram Bhattrai and Krishna Bahadur Mahara are
reportedly staying in India.
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Lootings: Maoists stormed into a house belonging to a former state
minister at Khalanga, the district headquarters of Jajarkot, and looted
properties. The house was set ablaze. |
June
05
2005
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Abduction: Maoists abducted a district chief of pro-left Jana
Morcha Nepal (JMN) in Doti district.
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Growth rate: Escalating Maoist insurgency, coupled with other factors
like high oil prices, will bring down Nepal's growth rate in 2005, a UN
survey says.
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Child soldiers: A United Nations human rights body denounced the use
of children as soldiers or spies in Nepal's conflict where it said they
are often killed or disappear.
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Schools: The U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child accused Maoist
rebels of "large-scale bombing, destruction and closing of schools".
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Destructions: Maoist rebels have destroyed the repeater tower of the
state-owned Nepal Telecom Company at Chhinchu in Surkhet district. Though
the Maoist leadership had said it would not target physical infrastructure,
the rebels continue to attack targets like telecom towers, electricity
sub-stations, bridges and government-owned offices, among others. |
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06
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Landmine: A commuter bus, travelling with local people from the village
of Madi to nearby Narayangadh, was hit by a landmine hidden under a bridge
over the Mudhekhola in Kalyanpur VDC, Madi area of Chitwan district. More
than 50 civilians lost their lives in the incident. An Army spokesman said
that the type of explosive device showed the incident was definitely the
work of the Maoist rebels. The rebels detonated the mine with a remote
control device from the top of a tree some hundred metres away. The incident
is perhaps the worst case of collateral damage sustained on the highway
in the nine-year-old 'people's war'.
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Yahoo AFP: Photos
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Landmine:
The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) condemned the killing
of at least 38 innocent civilians and injuring of 40 others in a land mine
blast today in Nepal as an act of "terrorism and crimes against humanity�.
ACHR also called upon the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights in Nepal to conduct an inquiry into the incident and refer
the report to the International Criminal Court for necessary action.
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Landmines:
Vigilante committees in rural areas have begun planting
landmines brought in from India in some wards. The landmines should protect
the villagers from possible Maoist attacks.
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People's Council:
Maoist leader Krishna Bahadur Mahara has been appointed
the head of the United Revolutionary People's Council in place of Baburam
Bhattarai who held that position. |
June
08
2005
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Landmine: The leadership of CPN (M) claimed responsibility for the
bomb blast in Chitwan's Madi area killing at least 38 civilians and called
the attack on civilians 'a grave mistake'."It was a serious mistake that
a landmine placed by a contingent of our people's liberation army targeted
at the royal army exploded causing loss to the public", CPN (M) leader
Prachanda said in a statement. Prachanda pledged an investigation of the
bombing within the rebel movement and said the findings would be made public.
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Yahoo AFP: Photos
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Landmine:
The independent Human Rights and Peace Society termed the
attack "deplorable, cowardice and a violation of international humanitarian
laws.
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Landmine:
The UN Secretary-General condemns the senseless deaths of
dozens of people in the explosion that tore through a passenger bus traveling
on a road in southern Nepal on Monday. The Secretary-General calls for
an immediate end to such utterly reprehensible tactics that expose civilians
to danger in the conflict in Nepal. He expresses his condolences to the
bereaved families and those injured in the incident..
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Gun battles:
According to Army sources least 20 people, including
14 soldiers and policemen, had been killed in a gun battle in Kailali district.
At least 3 Maoist rebgels have been killed in latest security actions in
Sankhuwasabha and Salyan districts.
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Weapons:
The Government has floated a global tender to procure weapons
and other equipment from foreign manufacturers. |
June
10
2005
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Landmine attack: Nepali media reported that 12 soldiers were on the
bus during the blast moving between two military posts. For more than a
year, the villagers had been warned by the Maoists not to allow this.
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Yahoo AFP: Photos
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Abduction:
Maoist rebels have abducted a Kantipur journalist. The journalist
was on a reporting assignment last week when he was taken from a remote
village near the Indian border. Nepali media are under pressure from both
sides of the conflict.
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Attack:
Maoist rebels have attacked a passenger bus in which security
personnel were also travelling along the B. P. highway in Kavre district.
Six security personnel, two civilians reported as killed.
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Encounters:
Security forces and Maoist rebels clashed sat Guphapokhari
area of Sankhuwasbha district. Two Maoists were killed during the gun battle,
army sources said. Heavy gun fire between security personnel and Maoist
rebels was reported from Traffic Chowk in Dhangadhi district. |
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