Word: bahadur
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...force. Since then, Nepal's civil war has claimed another 900 lives. Peace negotiations have been abandoned; Parliament last week extended the state of emergency by three months and the talk now is of full-scale war. "I no longer believe they are sincere about talks," Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba told TIME...
...violence in Nepal's six-year Maoist uprising came what may be the biggest political victory ever for a Nepalese Prime Minister. Certainly no official before him has won passage of a more contentious bill, and with a larger vote in his favor: last week Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba received a resounding 194-7 vote in favor of extending his State of Emergency legislation for another 90 days. The horror of the attacks in Western Nepal (see story) contributed immensely to the bill's success, but its passage showed that Deuba may be learning how to finally unify Nepal...