Word: maoists
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...leave the Congress party?" screamed one interrogator. "How much do you earn? Where are your daughters?" But the 54-year-old, whose only offense was that he belonged to the ruling Nepali Congress Party, was beyond speech. Eventually his torturers?a crowd of 60 girls and boys in Maoist uniforms and rebel-red bandannas?grew tired. Selecting a sharpened kukri (a small machete), one of them stepped forward and sliced halfway through Jnawali's neck in a single blow. And that's how his wife and son found him, cut to pieces, head partly severed, when they dared to venture...
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...
PERU Shining Path Redux Just three days before President George W. Bush was due to visit Lima, a car bomb packed with up to 60 kg of dynamite exploded outside the U.S. embassy, killing nine people and injuring 30. Immediate suspicions of responsibility concentrated on the Maoist rebel group Shining Path, which had been quiet for nearly a decade. Bush declared that "no two-bit terrorists" were going to make him put off his trip...
...carrying posters of Chairman Mao, China's patron saint of workers, and banners reading "The government has humiliated the people!" In the nearby province of Heilongjiang, simultaneous and similarly large worker protests occurred at the Daqing oil fields, which schoolchildren still study as the pinnacle of Chinese engineering and Maoist cradle-to-grave security. In both spots, workers were peeved, genuinely needy of some economic relief?and, most surprising, organized. Workers from one factory, Liaoyang Ferro-Alloys Plant, had tried demonstrating last October against the closure of their factory but accomplished nothing. So they reached out to other workers. According...
...Maoist rebels' training, equipment and methods: I have heard the rumors that some retired British Gurkhas have joined the Maoists, and provided them with training. But my government has seen no evidence to support this rumor...