Word: bahadur
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...months after he dissolved the government and suspended civil liberties in a move widely condemned by human-rights groups and foreign governments; in Kathmandu. Despite the end of emergency rule, the King will maintain the controversial Royal Commission for Corruption Control, which last week arrested former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba amid alleged irregularities in multi-million dollar drinking-water contracts awarded during his tenure. Mr. Deuba has denied the charges, calling the Commission "unconstitutional" and "illegal...
...were already packed with Maoist rebels and suspected sympathizers, so the students were taken to army barracks and to requisitioned gyms. Students weren't the only target: soldiers also strode into the cavernous, white stuccoed offices of the national government and hauled off government ministers, including Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, placing him and all other senior political figures in the country under house arrest...
...tens of thousands of migrant cooks, cleaners and drivers from the Middle East, Africa and Asia. (The same week, kidnappers freed three Indian truck drivers, three Kenyans and an Egyptian but killed three Turks.) The executions produced concerns of a different kind for Nepal's Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, who was accused of not doing enough to free the hostages. The deaths capped a rough fortnight in which the Maoists tried to cripple Kathmandu by forcing 12 corporations to close and threatening trucks supplying the city. (They relented a week later in the face of popular defiance...
...riots, Home Minister Purna Bahadur Khadka summoned leaders of Hindu groups to warn he would hold them responsible for further violence. But for some, the divisions of the outside world had already poisoned centuries of harmony. "I feel shaken," said Mohammad Mohsin, the government spokesman and a Muslim. "The community feels deeply wounded." Suddenly in Nepal, isolation doesn't seem...
...Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba tells TIME that "we are determined to give full protection to the industries and citizens" of Nepal, but the rebels' intimidation continues: last Friday, explosions rocked a Kathmandu government office and a guard post. Nepalese security analyst Indrajit Rai says cutting off Kathmandu could signal a possible endgame. "[The Maoists] are beginning to tighten their grip," he says. "Penetration [of Kathmandu] could follow the blockade, including sabotage attacks in Kathmandu. That's always been the plan." A full-scale siege is unlikely?the Maoists remain an outnumbered guerrilla force?but their war of harassment...