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NEPAL Truce Trounced Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba ruled out any talks with Maoist rebels unless they surrender their weapons. Deuba was responding to reports, later denied by a rebel spokesman, that the guerrillas had declared a one-month unilateral cease-fire. The statements came after some of the heaviest fighting in the country's six-year conflict, with estimates that between 250 and 600 people had died in the Western district of Rolpa...
...Himalayan hills. But lately, the "people's rebels" have embarked on an altogether bloodier course, inspired?according to a former rebel commander?by the tactics of Cambodia's Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. In November, the Maoists broke off three months of peace talks with Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba by launching 48 simultaneous attacks on army, police and government installations across the kingdom. This kicked off a whirlwind of atrocities that has cost nearly 2,000 lives. Strikes by thousands of Maoists on isolated security force bases left no survivors. Battlefield beheadings?of army and police, and fallen...
...Teacher Mim Bahadur Khada, 28, tells me from his hospital bed in the provincial capital Nepalgunj how 20 Maoists surrounded his house in Surket to the northwest, tied his hands behind his back and demanded $170, his annual salary. They also said he should tear up the curriculum and start teaching "practical" education classes, such as giving instructions on how to sow potato seeds or repair a corn thresher. When Khada refused, they kicked him, shattered his legs with a stick packed in a rubber pipe and whipped him with a bicycle chain before leaving him for dead. "They told...
...between the army and the Maoists," he says. "The Maoists come to them at night and demand food and shelter. If they refuse, the guerrillas kill them. But in the morning, the army comes and kills anyone who has helped the Maoists." In February, the army accused teacher Jeet Bahadur Khatri Chhetri of aiding the Maoists, beat him so badly he could not walk for a week, then forced him to sign a declaration supporting the government. Last month, a neighbor in the village of Pancha Kule was tortured by the Maoists and denounced Khatri Chhetri...
NEPAL Rebels Get Personal Maoist rebels blew up the family home of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba during a five-day general strike called as part of their campaign to overthrow the government and the monarchy. In the main cities the strike was only partially observed, but in the countryside nearly all businesses closed down. Two thousand people have died in the fighting since November...