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...AGREED. Nepal's Maoist rebels, to join an interim government, following a historic meeting between guerrilla leader Prachanda and Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala; in Kathmandu. The deal, which stipulates that a new constitution be written within a month, could lead to the end of the country's 10-year civil war, which has killed 13,000. Widespread demonstrations in the capital forced Nepal's King Gyanendra to relinquish absolute control of the government in April, boosting hopes of a return to democracy and settlement of the conflict...
...believe that the Maoists, who are vehemently opposed to the King, would have loved nothing more than to see the pro-demoracy protestors smash through the police cordons and storm the royal palace. Rejecting the King's announcement, the leader of the Maoists, who uses the nom-de-guerre Prachanda (the fierce one), said that the political parties had committed an "historic blunder" by ending the protests. He also announced that the Maoists would immediately blockade Kathmandu and other major towns until a special assembly, with the power to draft a new constitution for Nepal, was formed...
...revolver fatally on himself. King Gyanendra is nowhere near as popular as his predecessor?and by seizing power he could be playing into the hands of the Maoists, who want to topple the monarchy and form a communist republic. The rebels wasted no time in reacting. Maoist leader Prachanda denounced the "genocidal, corrupted national betrayer Gyanendra...
...Maoists' latest campaign of fear, which began as soon as their supreme leader, Comrade Prachanda, called off a seven-month cease-fire on Aug. 27, has been characterized by their usual ruthless efficiency. By the night of Aug. 29, the rebels had shot dead a colonel on the doorstep of his Kathmandu home, gunned down a former government minister, firebombed the ancestral country mansion of the Finance Minister, robbed two banks and announced a three-day nationwide general strike. Some of these attacks bore a strong flavor of retribution. Fifty-two-year-old Kiran Basnet, the colonel shot...
...Nepal The government and Maoist rebels signed a truce on Jan. 29, bringing a pause to the seven-year feud that has crippled the country's economy. The rebels, who vowed to overthrow the kingdom and install a communist state, seem ready to bargain. Maoist leader Prachanda even promised "to foil attempts to sabotage [peace] talks." The government has yet to form a negotiating team, however. Observers fear a reprise of the 2001 talks, which the rebels ended by attacking an army barracks, killing 14 soldiers...