Word: prachanda
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...weapons and tactics used by the guerrillas in Mangalsen have fueled suspicions that they have received training and aid from India's equally brutal communist rebels. Most of the Maoists' political leaders, including the group's founder, former agricultural student Pushpa Kamal Dahal, known as Prachanda, have found shelter across the border in the northern jungles of Bihar State. The emboldened rebels are also striking isolated army posts to seize automatic weapons. The arms used with such devastation at Mangalsen?5-cm mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and Indian self-loading rifles, according to Kunda Dixit, editor of the Nepali Times...