Word: maoist
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After hours of driving through southern Nepal, the Maoist cantonment proves remarkably easy to find. Red pennants adorn trees and street lamps along miles of dirt road that winds through rice paddies and fields of yellow mustard, ending by a sprawl of ramshackle enclosures and wood huts. There's little sign of military menace as goats and pigs loll around on grass knolls - that's before we near the sandbags of an outer bunker where a young woman in fatigues, who appears to be of school-going age, turns her machine gun in our direction and fixes us with...
...middle of nowhere, but this Maoist guerrilla camp marks a fork in the road for the Himalayan nation. After a decade-long civil war that has claimed 13,000 lives and prompted mass protests in 2006 against the autocratic rule of King Gyanendra, the Maoists have been brought into the political mainstream, via a peace agreement that would turn the oft-romanticized Hindu kingdom into a secular republic representing the true social and ethnic diversity of Nepal's 27 million people. The self-styled People's Liberation Army agreed to retire to rural camps such as this one, to begin...
...despite all its newfound diplomatic adroitness, on a few sensitive issues the Beijing government seems to revert instinctively to its Maoist-era default mode. Last week China gave the world a series of demonstrations of that, in relation to two especially sensitive issues, Taiwan and the Dalai Lama...
...such old-school "anti-imperialist" posturing appears somewhat anachronistic, if not hypocritical, when an economically resurgent China - no longer the Maoist backwater once so admired by India's Communist vanguard - looms large to the north, while some of the Indian leftists, like the Communist government in West Bengal, advocate trade-friendly reforms and the creation of special economic zones...
...protests will be peaceful, but if anybody tries to make it violent we will retaliate with the same kind of actions.' BABURAM BHATTARAI, deputy leader of Nepal's Maoist rebels, calling for demonstrations against the monarchy after the group withdrew from the government, jeopardizing the peace process that ended Nepal's 10-year civil...