Word: nepal
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...This time Khadka was not crying wolf. Just after midnight on Feb. 17, an army of at least 2,000 of Nepal's Maoist guerrillas?up to half of the core group of armed rebels?fell on Mangalsen from the surrounding Himalayan hills. Their rockets cut through the walls of government offices and police stations, while mortars whistled overhead. After forcing residents into the open, the guerrillas blew buildings apart. They ransacked the bank, making off with $263,000, and freed 16 comrades from the Mangalsen jail while more troops overran Sanfebagar airport 20 km away...
...there were any lingering doubts that Nepal's Maoist guerrillas have graduated from poorly armed historical anomalies to the ranks of Asia's most-threatening insurgent movements, that notion died last week as reports of atrocities mounted?at least 34 police officers killed in an attack in remote Sitalpati in the midwest, five bus passengers blown apart by a bomb for defying a general strike call and a bomb blast that injured one man in the capital, Kathmandu. "This is now a serious threat to the existence of the state," says Prakash C. Lohani, a former Foreign Minister...
...Nepal State of Emergency Parliament voted to extend another three-month state of emergency after rebels killed more than 140 troops and police in the deadliest-ever raids by Maoist insurgents. Barely five hours after the announcement, rebels raided a police post in the western Salyan district, killing at least 24 policemen...
...Philip Boit, Kenya, Cross Country Theodoros Christodoulou, Cyprus, Alpine skiing Andrei Drygin, Tajikistan, Alpine skiing Gian Matteo Giordani, San Marino, Alpine skiing Alexander Heath, South Africa, Alpine skiing Shiva Keshavan, India, Luge Jayaram Khadka, Nepal, Cross country Arturo Kinch, Costa Rica, Cross country Isaac Menyoli, Cameroon, Cross country Prawat Nagvajara, Thailand, Cross country Patrick Singleton, Bermuda, Luge
Hilton professed that Shangri-la is not on any map, but that hasn't stopped numerous countries?Nepal, Ladakh, Sikkim and Bhutan, among others?from claiming to harbor the verdant Himalayan valley in the shadow of a glacier-clad peak, shaped like a pyramid. The People's Republic of China is the latest to jump on the bandwagon, announcing in 1996 that it had found Shangri-la in the mountainous Deqin prefecture of northwestern Yunnan province. Not to be outdone, Sichuan, its equally scenic neighbor to the north, has since claimed the title for its Yading Nature Reserve...