Word: maoist
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...latest development in Nepal's experiment with allowing former rebels to take the helm of the nation's democratically elected government, the Maoist leadership formally retracted its threat last week to sack the chief of the formerly royalist Nepal army. The move, some say, may have saved the less-than-a-year-old government from being overthrown. The intractable dispute over assimilating the former Maoist guerrillas into the army, as per the terms of the peace accord signed in November 2006, could have led to a military coup. But while the government's reconciliatory decision succeeded in keeping power...
...India A MONUMENTAL EFFORT Voting in the world's largest democracy started on April 16, despite violent Maoist attacks intended to disrupt the election that left at least 17 dead. Staggered balloting for the nation's 543 parliamentary seats continues until May 13; counting will begin on May 16. Neither of India's two major parties is expected to win enough seats to declare an overall victory, so a new coalition government--including some of the country's smaller parties--could be formed after the election...
...China could once boast of great strides in public health during the Maoist era. Through focusing on primary care and prevention, China was able to control widespread diseases such as malaria and schistosomiasis. Although China remained poor and lacked the top-flight facilities of developed nations, it was able to raise life expectancy from...
...Nepal's palace massacre in 2001 - when crown prince Dipendra allegedly gunned down 10 members of his own family, including his father, King Birendra Shah, before shooting himself - has for the most part receded into memory in this impoverished Himalayan nation. Since then, a Maoist rebellion found its way into power, transformed the kingdom into a republican democracy and abolished the monarchy altogether last year. Yet the current government, headed by the former rebels, still indulges in periodic bouts of royal-bashing, often to paper over the increasingly apparent shortcomings of its own rule. As fuel lines in Kathmandu stretch...
...have sent commodities' prices soaring, and the financial downturn has led thousands of overseas workers - whose remittances comprise some 16% of the national GDP - to return home unemployed. National security has also deteriorated, partly as a consequence of the government's failure to integrate the roughly 30,000-strong Maoist rebel army, still quartered in remote camps throughout the country, with the formerly royalist state forces. Some frustrated Maoist commanders have even called for the overthrow of their own democratic government...