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January 3
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The Terai-Madhesh Democratic Party
submitted an 11-point demand to Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala.
The demands put forth by the party include constitutional guarantee
of autonomy with right to self determination for Terai-Madhesh
region; declaring the 42 people killed during the Madhesh agitation
in 2007 as martyrs; providing relief and compensation to injured;
formation of a new independent commission to probe alleged atrocities
during the Madhesh agitation; recruitment of Madheshi people in
Nepali Army proportional to their population; and allocation of
budget based on population, among others.
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January 4
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Cadres of the Jwala Singh faction
of the Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha (JTMM-J)
shot dead a civilian, identified as Hari Prasad Chaulagain, a
resident of Bardibas-3 of Mahottari district.
The Young Communist League (YCL)
cadres assaulted local traders in the Khodpe Bazaar of Baitadi
district for organising a vehicle strike in protest against the
YCL atrocities.
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January 6
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YCL cadres assaulted and injured
a former chairman of the Lamachaur Village Development Committee
(VDC), Durga Bahadur, and a Communist Party of Nepal – Maoist-Leninist
(CPN-UML) activist, Om Bahadur Kunwar, in the Kaski district alleging
that the duo was involved in corruption.
In a reference to the integration
of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with the Nepali Army, the
Chief of Army Staff, Rookmangud Katawal, has said that the Nepali
Army would not accept induction of any political ideology in the
army. "In the name of institutionalising the peace process,
any political ‘ism’ or ideology should not be introduced in the
Nepali Army," he said. Katawal added that there should be
no political influence on the Nepali Army. "Political influence
on the Nepali Army will only invite bigger problems in the country,"
he stated.
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January 7
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Cadres of the Prithvi Singh faction
of the JTMM detonated three bombs at three different places in
the Birgunj town of Parsa district. According to police, the explosions
occurred at Ghantaghar, Bypass Road and near the Truck Entrepreneurs
Association office in the town.
Police arrested a leader of the
JTMM-J, identified as Raj Kumar Mandal, from Lalitpur. A revolver
was also seized from his possession.
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January 8
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Security forces arrested two cadres
of the JTMM-J, identified as Bhavikhan Mahato and Lal Babu Mahato,
at Jeetpur in the Bara district. A twelve-bore gun and a homemade
pistol were also recovered from their possession.
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January 9
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A senior officer of the District
Development Committee of the Kapilvastu district, Niranjan Poudel,
was abducted by a group of armed cadres of the JTMM from the Tirtikhi
VDC area.
YCL cadres seized over a tonne
of ginger planted in a farm belonging to one Laxmi Das Shrestha
of Sarandanda-5 in Panchthar district. Later Shrestha said that,
"They asked for donation and when I denied to pay up they took
control of the ginger plantation on over two ropanis of land worth
NR 20,000."
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January 11
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A cabinet meeting decided to hold
the Constituent Assembly elections on April 10, 2008. Emerging
from the cabinet meeting, Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula
said, "The cabinet meeting made the decision in an amicable
manner and the government will concentrate on the Constituent
Assembly elections setting it as the major agenda." Leaders
of the three major political parties, Prime Minister and Nepali
Congress leader Girija Prasad Koirala, Maoist
Chairman Prachanda and the Communist Party of Nepal – Unified
Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal
has also reached an agreement not to make any remarks in public
that would adversely affect the environment for the elections.
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January 12
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Cadres of the JTMM-J shot dead
a journalist, identified as Pushpa Shrestha, in front of the Kanya
Lower Secondary School in Birgunj Municipility-3 of Parsa district.
The Parsa district in-charge of JTMM-J, Toofan Singh, claimed
responsibility for the killing.
A CPN-Maoist Central Committee
meeting decided to relieve deputy commander Barsha Man Pun a.k.a.
Ananta from his position as the YCL ‘faction in-charge’ amidst
reports of the increased high-handedness of the YCL cadres. According
to sources, the Central Committee meeting took the decision to
this effect after some of its members criticised the recent activities
of the YCL and held Ananta responsible for it.
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January 14
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Eight persons were injured when
a bomb exploded near Bhotahiti in the capital Kathmandu, minutes
after a mass gathering of the seven parties to launch their election
campaigning concluded. Eyewitnesses said they heard explosion
in the middle of the road at the busy Ratnapark-Bhotahity intersection
which lies few hundred meters from Khula Mach, the venue
of the seven-party mass meeting. The bomb hurled by an unidentified
person also damaged two vehicles.
A team from the Informal Sector
Service Center (INSEC), a Kathmandu-based human rights non-governmental
organisation, found that the Maoists are continuing to operate
labour camps in many parts of the country. INSEC found that six
persons in Salyan, 20 in Rukum, seven in Pyuthan, and six in Jajarkot
districts are serving jail terms in such labour camps. The terms
were handed down by the CPN-Maoist 'Kangaroo Courts' in the past.
"The detainees cook food, clean the school and cooking utensils,
serve the teachers and students, and carry loads for Maoists,"
said Pratibedan Baidhya, the leader of the INSEC team. The detainees
are also reportedly not paid for their work.
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January 17
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Himalayan Times reports
that the Maoists are still running their kangaroo court in the
Dhangadhi municipality of Kailali district, in violation of the
agreement with the government. Kharga Rana of the Beladevi Village
Development Committee received a letter from the people’s justice
cooperation committee asking him to attend the people’s court
on January 27. The CPN-Maoist district secretary Utsav said that
the people’s court was trying to streamline the issues between
the people, police and administration, adding that, "This is not
against the spirit of the peace treaty."
JTMM-J leader Jwala Singh said
that his party is ready to negotiate with the government under
the supervision of the United Nations or any other reliable international
agency, according to Nepal News. He set a precondition that the
government should give its commitment that major demands of his
party would be addressed by the time formal talks begin.
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January 19
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Security forces arrested two cadres
of the JTMM-J, identified as Shanker Giri and Mahadev Sahani,
with a pistol at Gaur Municipality-1 in the Rautahat district.
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January 20
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JTMM-J cadres abducted and subsequently
shot dead a government servant, Purna Prasad Dhakal, in the Banke
district. Dhakal, who worked as a clerk at the Land Reforms Office,
was whisked away from Raniyapur village in Banke district on January
19-night, and his bullet-ridden body was found on January 20-morning
three kilometers away from Sidhiniya Ghaat in the Gamdi VDC.
JTMM-J cadres seized five tractors
in Maryadapur VDC in the Rautahat district. JTMM-J area no. 3
in-charge, Jhaman Yadav, has said that the tractors were seized
for failing to secure permits.
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January 20
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YCL cadres abducted three activists
of the Nepali Congress, identified as Satya Narayan Yadav, Ram
Ekwal Yadav and Nem Kumar Thakur, in the Siraha district.
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January 21
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The Madhesh Mukti Tigers (MMT)
cadres detonated seven bombs in Rajbiraj, headquarters of the
Saptari district, ahead of the visit of the Minister of state
for Home Affairs, Ram Kumar Chaudhary, to his hometown. A bomb
exploded at the district development committee meeting hall prior
to Chaudhary’s arrival, where a welcome ceremony was scheduled
to be held. Later, a series of blasts continued at Siraha road,
near the municipality building, near the Nepali Congress office,
near the Sajha offset press, next to Ansari Mini Market and at
Jana Andolan Chowk. However, no casualty was reported in the blasts.
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January 23
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Cadres of the YCL killed the three
Nepali Congress activists, Satya Narayan Yadav, Neem Chandra Thakur,
and Ram Ikbaal Yadav, who were abducted by them on January 20.
Police found their dead bodies buried on the bank of Kamala River
at Kichana VDC in the Siraha district.
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January 25
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Cadres of the Joint Madhesi Morcha
showed black flags to the Nepali Congress central leaders who
came to Rajbiraj to address a party cadres’ assembly. One policeman
and six demonstrators were hurt in the riot that ensued. While
the meeting was going on at the District Development Committee
hall, two bombs were exploded, but no casualties were reported.
Number 4 area in charge of the JTMM-J, Ranjit, claimed responsibility
for the blasts. One dozen demonstrators were also arrested.
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January 26
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Several bombs were detonated at
different places in Janakapura on January 25-evening ahead of
the seven parties joint meet to be held at Janakapura. Two bombs
were exploded at Piradi Chowk and another at Ramananda Chowk.
Only minor damages were reported as the bombs weren't very powerful.
MMT triggered a series of bomb
explosions in Inaruwa, headquarters of the Sunsari district. The
blasts occurred at Bihibarehat area where senior Nepali Congress
leaders were attending a gathering of the party workers. However,
no casualty was reported in the blasts.
Maoists allegedly seized a Nepali
Congress activist, Pratap Devkota, on the charge of gathering
people for a Nepali Congress mass meeting at Khalanga in the Rukum
district. Maoists detained Devkota for one hour when he was returning
to his village after the meeting. He was later released with the
help of Police.
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January 27
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JTMM-J cadres exploded a petrol
bomb at the CPN-Maoist district office at Rajhaul in the Dhanusa
district. However, no casualties were reported in the incident.
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January 28
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Cadres of the JTMM-J shot dead
a youth in the Dhanusa district. A group headed by JTMM-J cadre,
Tiger Singh, shot dead Madan Kumar Lama while he was on his way
home at Puspalnagar in the Dhanusa district from Kathmandu, on
charge of spying against them.
Cadres of the YCL captured a house
belonging to one Bhuwan Singh Gurung in Khandbari-3 in the Sankhuwasabha
district after he failed to pay the donation amount demanded from
him.
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January 29
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YCL cadres clashed with some policemen
at Kabeli bazaar in the Panchthar district when the policemen
attempted to check a passenger bus carrying some YCL cadres, among
others. During the clash which continued for half-an-hour the
YCL cadres reportedly seized the weapons of a policeman.
CPN-Maoist cadres surrounded the
Rautahat District Administration Office demanding release of their
detained colleague, Jaya Ram Yadav, on a murder charge. The Maoists'
district in-charge, Ashok Jaysawal Yadav, threatened to boycott
elections in the Rautahat district if Yadav were not released.
Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala
said he is ready to meet all the just demands made by disgruntled
Madhesi groups if they show a readiness to take part in the forthcoming
Constituent Assembly election. Addressing a function in Kathmandu,
Koirala said, "I want to tell the Madhesi friends that they just
need to become ready to participate in the elections, then it
will be for me to meet all the just demands they are raising."
Stressing that only dialogue can resolve the Terai problem, the
Prime Minister also urged the Terai groups to come to the negotiating
table.
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January 30
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Around 54 persons, including the
Chief District Officer of Parsa district, Bhola Prasad Siwakoti,
were injured in an explosion that occurred outside the Narayani
Stadium in Birgunj where the Seven Party Alliance was holding
its final electoral assembly. Meanwhile, Kanchan Bidrohi, the
Parsa district in-charge of the MMT, has claimed responsibility
for the blasts.
Police arrested the Siraha district
commander of the JTMM-G, Prithvi Lal Yadav alias Jasho Lal.
A report of the National Human
Rights Commission regional office in Biratnagar has revealed that
the Maoists are yet to return the seized land and property belonging
to 38 families of Rajbiraj in the Saptari district. Maoist district
secretary Suryanath Yadav alias Subash said that they were ready
to return the seized land and property as per the direction of
the party. "We have returned most of the land and property we
had seized," he claimed. Seized land and property will be distributed
to the poor, needy, landless and squatters, he added.
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January 31
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Cadres of the JTMM-J shot dead
a guard at a community forest project in Sarlahi district. Police
informed that the security guard, identified as Karna Bahadur
Biswokarma, was shot dead while he was on duty at the Sagarnath
Community Forest Project at Gaurishankhar VDC.
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February 2
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An 8-year-old girl was injured
when an explosion occurred few meters away at Sakhuwagachi of
Inaruwa in the Sunsari district, where senior Nepali Congress
leader Sher Bahadur Deuba was attending a mass meeting. The MMT
has claimed responsibility for the blast.
Protesting the detention of over
two dozens YCL cadres by India’s Seema Suraksha Bal (SSB) in Maheshpur
border area in the Jhapa district, the YCL cadres resorted to
vandalism and rampage, and targeted at vehicles with Indian number
plates in Jhapa, Morang and Sunsari district on February 2, Nepal
News reports. They set ablaze to two Indian vehicles - one truck
and a jeep – in the Jhapa district and an Indian truck at Biratnagar
in the Morang district. The YCL has also imposed a ban on the
plying of Indian vehicles in the three districts.
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February 3
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More than a dozen of bomb explosions
rocked Rajbiraj town, the headquarters of Saptari district on
February 3. The blasts took place close to Raj Stadium where the
Nepali Congress was organising its election rally which was to
be addressed by senior Nepali Congress leader and former Prime
Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba. Around a dozen of persons, including
two policemen, were injured in the blasts. 51 persons suspected
to have been involved with the blasts have been arrested so far.
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February 4
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20 persons, including eight policemen
were inured at Nepalgunj in the Banke district when cadres of
the United Madhesi Front (UMF) clashed with police on February
4 on the second day of the bandh called by the UMF. Marketplaces,
educational institutions and industries remain largely closed
and vehicular transport came to a halt in Siraha, Saptari, Bara,
Parsa, Mahottari, Rautahat and Dhanusha districts. The bandh has
partially affected Sunsari, Morang, Kapilvastu, Nawalparasi and
Rupendehi districts.
Eight MJF
cadres, including president of the Youth Madhesi Forum Rajendra
Yadav, were injured in a clash with police in Nawalparasi. The
clash ensued as police tried to reopen the Butwal-Bardaghat road
section. MJF supporters barred vehicles from plying on Basachowk
of the road section along the Mahendra Highway.
Cadres of the YCL assaulted the
District Education Officer of Saptari, Afsad Ali, in his office.
Three YCL cadres were arrested in connection with the manhandling
Ali.
JTMM-G published a list of 37
persons of Sunsari district and threatened to initiate ‘physical
action’ them. ‘Physical action’ ranges from physical assaults
to murder. The list includes names of person from various walks
of life such as civil servants, teachers and entrepreneurs.
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February 5
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At least 20 persons, including
three policemen, were injured after cadres of the Tarai-Madhesh
Democratic Party and United Madhesi Front clashed with the police
at Jaleshwor in the Mahottari district. The clash ensued after
the protesters staged demonstration outside Jaleshwor Stadium
where Nepali Congress senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba was addressing
workers’ meeting.
JTMM-J cadres detonated six bombs
on the premises of the District Education Office, at Zero Mile
and Sahujipatti area in the Mahottari district.
Activists of Nepali Congress and
CPN-Maoists clashed in the Latinath Village Development Committee
area of Darchula district after the Maoists tried to disrupt the
election campaign of the Nepali Congress. Two Maoists were injured
in the incident after police used force to foil any untoward incidents.
Police arrested two JTMM-J cadres,
identified as Jibat Kumar Mahato and Ram Chadra Mahato, from Lahan
area in the Siraha district and recovered two hand-made guns and
3 rounds of SLR bullets from them.
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February 6
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Several bombs were detonated at
Malangawa, the district headquarters of Sarlahi, where a mass
meeting of the Nepali Congress was in progress. The bombs were
detonated some 100 metres away from the venue of the meeting.
However, no casualties were reported.
Police raided the central office
of the YCL at Balaju in Kathmandu, reportedly, for concealed weapons
inside the office.
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February 7
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Two JTMM-J cadres were killed
by police in the Saptari district. According to the police, Chandreshwar
Kamat alias Sher Singh and Raj Kumar Mandal alias Ranjit of the
JTMM-J were shot dead when they clashed with police at Belichapena
VDC.
Cadres of the JTMM-G shot dead
an elderly person, Keshab Bahadur Gurung, in the Rupandehi district.
Gurung, a canteen owner at Sukha Bandargaha in Bagaha VDC, was
reportedly killed on charge of spying against the JTMM-G.
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February 10
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YCL cadres set ablaze a post set
up by the Rautahat District Development Committee to collect revenue
near Dhansarpur of East-West Highway.
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February 11
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Around 100 YCL cadres disrupted
a programme organised by the Nepali Congress in the Rupakot VDC
area of the Tanahu district. They also assaulted the former minister
and Nepali Congress leader, Govinda Raj Joshi, and vandalised
the podium erected there.
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February 13
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Around 3,000 Maoist insurgents
attacked the Latinath police post in Darchula district for arresting
two of their cadres who were arrested for their reported involvement
in the recent attack on Nepali Congress leader and former minister
Dilendra Badu in Latinath.
JTMM-J cadres abducted a Rural
Health Worker, Rajeshwor Prasad Sah, from Siraha district.
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February 15
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Two persons were injured when
cadres of the JTMM-J detonated a pressure cooker bomb at the District
Election Office in Nepalgunj in the Banke district.
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February 17
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The Bara-Parsa districts coordinator
of the JTMM-G, Binod Mahato, was shot dead by an unidentified
group at Bairganiyaa Bazaar in Bihar in India.
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February 18
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At least 20 persons were injured
when JTMM-J cadres attacked a wedding house at Katani village
in the Rangapur VDC area of Rautahat district. They also abducted
four girls from there, three of whom were released later. They
also looted property worth NR one lakh, including gold ornaments.
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February 21
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Around 60 persons were injured
in six districts of the Terai region on the ninth day of the indefinite
strike called by the United Democratic Madhesh Front (UMDF). More
than 100 people were arrested and 30 buses were vandalised during
the strike. Curfew was imposed in headquarters Siraha and Lahan
municipality of Siraha district, Inaruwa and the Mahendra highway
section in Sunsari district, Biratnagar of Morang district, Nepalgunj
of Banke district and in the Parsa district.
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February 22
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60 persons, including five policemen
and four journalists, were injured in clashes between activists
of the UMDF and police in Rautahat and Dhanusha districts.
Four Maoists were injured in a
clash that broke out between workers of the CPN-UML and the Maoists
in the Arghakhanchi district. The clash ensued after the Maoist
cadres tried to obstruct the election rally of the CPN-UML in
Hatiya of Nuwakot VDC in the district.
An Armed Police Force head constable,
Shyam Kumar Kashyap, was abducted by cadres of the JTMM-J at the
Krishnanagar custom office in the Kapilvastu district.
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February 23
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Cadres of JTMM-J led by the area
in-charge, Gabbar, abducted a civilian, Narayan Prasad Upadhyay,
in Mahottari district. The JTMM-J district in-charge, Surya, told
journalists that, "Upadhyay was abducted as he was tilling
14 bighas of land that was seized by JTMM-J without the permission
of the party."
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February 24
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21 persons were injured in clashes
between agitators and the police across the Terai region as an
indefinite strike called by the UMDF. Four persons were injured
at Janakpur in the Dhanusha district when clashes ensued between
agitators and police at the Bhanu Chowk, municipality office,
Shiva Chowk and the Mills area. Agitators also set ablaze the
Election Commission office at Kalaiya of Bara district. One policeman
and three UMDF cadres sustained burn injuries while three cadres
were hurt in police action.
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February 25
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Cadres of the JTMM-J shot dead
Sukraraj Majhi Chaudhary, head constable of Armed Police Force,
at Inaruwa bazaar of Sunsari district.
The Government and the UDMF arrived
at a consensus on the key UDMF demand - One Madhesh One Pradesh
- which they said would be decided through the Constituent Assembly.
They also agreed to form an autonomous Madhesh state and other
autonomous states. "We have agreed on autonomous Madhesh state.
But we are still discussing proper words to reflect the desire
of Madheshi people regarding the autonomous Madhesh state," said
Madheshi leader Hridayesh Tripathi. The government and UDMF have
also agreed to recognise all those killed in the course of the
Madhesh movement as martyrs and provide their families with proper
compensation. They have agreed to amend the Election Commission
Act, which provisions that any political party which secures at
least 20 percent result or more under the First-Past-the-Post
system must prepare an inclusive list of candidates for the proportional
electoral system. "We have agreed to increase the provision from
20 to 30 percent," said Tripathi.
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February 26
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One person was killed in police
firing in the Nawalparasi district on the 14th day of the indefinite
strike called by the UDMF. The victim was identified as Jagadesh
Pashwan of Badahada, Bubailia-3.
YCL cadres assaulted a school
teacher, Sanukaji Baniya, in Ghyampesal village of the Gorkha
district.
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February 27
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One person, identified as Mohammad
Biskut Miya, was killed and six others were injured when police
opened fire at a group of protesters for violating the curfew
orders in Duhabi area of Sunsari district.
Two persons were injured when
cadres of the JTMM-G attacked a passenger bus, which was part
of a convoy of vehicles coming from Kathmandu under a police escort
for security, with petrol bombs in the Golbazaar area of Siraha
district.
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February 28
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The Government and the agitating
UDMF signed an eight-point agreement bringing an end to the indefinite
strike in the Terai region.
Three minor partners of the Seven
Party Alliance - the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party, Janamorcha
Nepal and United Left Front - expressed disagreement with the
deal reached between the Government and the UDMF.
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March 1
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JTMM-G killed Gokarna Kandel,
a Nepali Congress leader, near his house in the Rupandehi district.
Cadres of the Terai Mukti Tigers
abducted two police personnel of the Loharpattti area police office
from Kataiya village in the Mahottari district. Superintendent
of Police Purna Singh Khadka said that constables Santosh Kumar
Singh and Suresh Kumar Raut Kurmi were abducted by the TMT cadres
when they went to Sitapur Bhangaha to settle a dispute over a
drinking water tank there.
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March 2
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JTMM-G, which was formed on July
25, 2004, has changed its party’s name to All Terai Liberation
Front (ATLF). The JTMM-G central coordinator Goit said that the
name of the party has been changed so as to be distinct from other
factions of JTMM.
Three armed outfits in the Terai
region – the Samyukta Jantantrik Terai Mukti Morcha, Madhesi Mukti
Tigers and Terai Cobra - have reportedly agreed to sit for talks
with the government provided there is "enabling atmosphere for
it." Issuing a joint statement they said that, "We are not against
talks, and if there is an enabling atmosphere for it then we are
ready to come for talks."
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March 3
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Cadres of the JTMM-J detonated
a ‘pressure cooker bomb’ at the residence of Krishna Man Shrestha,
the Nepali Congress Banke district president and the party’s candidate
for Constituent Assembly election from constituency no. 4, at
Adarsha Nagar in Nepalgunj. The blast caused minor damage to the
house, but there was no human casualty.
Eight Nepali Congress leaders,
including six incumbent lawmakers, quit the party and joined the
MJF to "emotionally integrate the Terai to assimilate it with
the whole national feeling." The six leaders - Bijay Kumar Gachhadar,
Sarat Singh Bhandari, Ram Janam Chaudhary, Laxman Prasad Mehata,
Hari Narayan Chaudhary, Mangal Singh Tharu - quit the party and
also announced quitting the parliament. Others quitting the party
are Nepali Congress Mahasamiti member, Arjun Thapa of Dhankuta,
and former Member of Parliament Shukra Raj Samyok Limbu of Morang.
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March 4
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Cadres of the MMT shot dead Uday
Yadav, a Nepali Congress member of Mahottari district, at Mangalpur
Bazaar in the Dhanusha district.
Senior Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai
said that the Maoists will launch a new revolution if they lose
the forthcoming Constituent Assembly election. Addressing an election
rally in the Bhachhek village of Gorkha district, Bhattarai said,
"If we lose, there will be a new type of revolution," without
elaborating. He also said that no other political party can address
the agenda raised by them. "To fulfill the agenda raised by Maoists,
we must win the election. There is no question of losing it,"
Bhattarai said.
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March 7
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Cadres of the Akhil Terai Mukti
Morcha (ATMM) - the group formerly known as JTMM-G - set ablaze
a vehicle belonging to the Kantipur daily newspaper at
Babhanagamakatti village of Saptari district. Two persons were
injured in the incident.
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March 9
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Suspected Maoists abducted Mangal
Gurung, the CPN-UML candidate in the Manang district.
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March 10
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Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala
ruled out holding talks with the agitating Terai-based armed groups
ahead of the key CA polls, saying the demands of the Madhesi community
for greater representation and autonomy has been accepted.
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March 11
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Cadres of the YCL obstructed a
group of workers of the Rashtriya Janashakti Party from campaigning
in the Dhankuta district. YCL cadres seized NR 130000 cash from
them and also confiscated citizenship certificate of the RJP president
and former Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa.
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March 12
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Armed cadres of the JTMM-J shot
dead a civilian, identified as Hitlal Singh, at his residence
in the Hardiya area of Bara district.
Maoists attacked an election campaign
meeting of the CPN-UML in Preeti VDC area in the Ramechhap district
and injured 12 persons, including the CPN-UML candidate for Ramechhap
district’s constituency number 1, Dev Shankar Poudel.
Maoists abducted two workers of
the Rashtriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) in the Chitwan district.
Maoists severely assaulted a Nepali
Congress activist, Ganeshman Shrestha, of Ghyalchowk VDC area
in the Gorkha district.
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March 13
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Maoists stormed the RPP office
in Chitwan and ransacked all the furniture and documents before
setting ablaze the building.
A group of YCL cadres misbehaved
with Nepali Congress leader Shiva Raj Joshi and several other
party workers when they were in Ghatgaun VDC in the Surkhet district
on a poll campaign.
YCL cadres assaulted a CPN-UML
cadre, Khadga Bahadur Pariyar, of Kaskikot-5 in the Kaski district.
Maoists assaulted two cadres of
the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party (NWPP) - Raj Bahadur Budha
and Dan Bahadur Budha - in Jumla and filed fake cases against
them.
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March 15
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Four activists of the CPN-UML
were injured when the YCL cadres attacked their meeting at Taparsu
VDC in the Dhading district.
Maoists assaulted two Nepali Congress
activists in the Gorkha district. Maoists picketed the home of
Chandra Prasad Neupane, the NC candidate from Constituency Number
2 in the district, at midnight and assaulted his son Achyut and
another NC activist Amar Bhitav.
An Armed Police Force team arrested
two cadres of the JTMM-J in the Rautahat district.
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March 16
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In the Bardiya district, CPN-Maoist
cadres led by Hem Narayan Kafle assaulted a CPN-UML activist,
Jhapulal Jaisi, in his house after accusing him of doing poll
publicity work.
Maoists laid an ambush, hurled
stones and fired shots at a Nepali Congress election procession
led by party candidate Bal Krishna Dahal for the Constituent Assembly
polls from Constituency Number 1 in the Okhaldhunga district.
A NC cadre, Lila Dahal, was injured in the attack.
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March 17
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At least 10 persons were injured
when activists of the Nepali Congress and the MJF clashed at Narasingh
in the Sunsari district.
Maoists attacked a group of CPN-UML
supporters when they were returning from an election rally at
Khurkhure of Birendranagar VDC in the Chitwan district. The Maoists
assaulted three CPN-UML supporters while five insurgents also
received minor injuries in the scuffle.
A group of CPN-Maoist cadres tried
to obstruct the Nepali Congress programme at Sankh VDC in the
Rukum district.
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March 18
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Unidentified armed persons shot
dead a CPN-Maoist cadre, Bhakta Bahadur, at Jaimakasala in the
Rolpa district. Bhakta Bahadur, a resident of Uwa VDC-7, was dragged
out of the hotel where he used to work and was killed.
Another Maoist, Tek Bahadur Gharti,
was shot dead by a group of three people at Gam VDC-5 in the Rolpa
district.
A candidate for the CA election
from the NPF in Banke constituency 2, Kamal Prasad Adhikari, was
shot dead by militants of the Jwala Singh faction of the JTMM-J
cadres. Claiming responsibility for the killing, Bhagat Singh,
the Banke district Chairman of JTMM-J, said, "JTMM-J was pressing
him to withdraw his candidacy. Adhikari was killed as he did not
listen to JTMM-J’s request."
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March 22
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An unidentified group shot dead
a Maoist ‘area committee’ member Shiv Pujan Kurmi at Shivlava
village in the Kapilvastu district, near the Nepal-India border.
In protest, Maoist cadres staged a sit-in outside the main gate
of the hospital and also vandalised vehicles belonging to Nepali
Congress candidates and the party's poll publicity office in the
district.
A suspected member of an armed
group was killed during police retaliation in the Dhanusa district
when a few persons attacked a patrol of the area police office.
A 12-bore gun was recovered from the incident site.
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March 24
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Cadres of the YCL attacked the
former Deputy Prime Minister and CPN-UML leader K.P. Sharma Oli
in Bhadrapur in the Jhapa district. YCL cadres hurled stones at
Oli’s vehicle, smashing its windowpanes, district Superintendent
of Police Rajendra Shrestha said, adding that police inspector
Durga Thapa was also injured in the incident. CPN-Maoist cadres
Bhumika and Ganga Prasain were hurt in the incident, central member
of the YCL Agni said.
Police arrested three People’s
Liberation Army cadres at Ghargharye in the Rolpa district and
seized an AK-47 and INSAS rifle from them.
Maoist chairman Prachanda has
said there would be a big revolt if efforts are made to disturb
the CA election. Addressing an election rally in the Jawalakhel
area of Lalitpur district, Prachanda said that monarchists, domestic
and foreign reactionaries were plotting to foil the election.
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March 25
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An unidentified armed gang of
five persons shot dead an ‘area commander’ of the JTMM-J, Sekh
Nasir of Gamhariya Parsa Village Development Committee. Superintendent
of Police Ram Krishna Lama claimed that Nasir might have been
killed by his own friends.
In the last three months, there
have been around 170 incidents of election-related violence across
the country, said Democracy and Election Alliance, an organisation
working on election observation issues. According to its report,
20 persons were killed, 623 injured and 24 abducted. The report
points that majority of these incidents were carried out by armed
outfits operating in the Terai. That apart, Maoists, Madhesi Janadhikar
Forum and other parties were also involved in some of those incidents.
Bhutanese refugees began arriving
in the US, the first of what the UN described as one of the world's
largest resettlement efforts. The first group, arriving throughout
the week, includes 121 refugees. The US has offered to resettle
60,000 of the estimated 107,000 Bhutanese refugees of Nepalese
origin now living in seven UN camps in south-eastern Nepal --
their home for the past 17 years. Six other nations -- Australia,
Canada, Norway, Netherlands, New Zealand and Denmark -- have offered
to resettle 10,000 each. So far, however, only about 25,000 of
the refugees have registered for resettlement, according to the
UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and not many more than 10,000
are expected to leave Nepal by the end of 2008.
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March 26
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A CPN-Maoist cadre was killed
when police opened fire during a scuffle between the members of
NC-affiliated Tarun Dal and the Maoists in the Solukhumbu district.
A statement issued by the Information Bureau of the Maoists said
that Ganga Bahadur Bhujel 'Gajendra', a member of the district
secretariat, died on the spot in the police firing.
Reports from other districts of
mid-western region said that the Maoist combatants cantoned at
various cantonment sites have started deserting their camps to
involve in the election publicity of the party. The Maoists are
said to have been mobilising at least 50 combatants in each district
for this purpose.
Prachanda has said that his party
will not accept defeat in the forthcoming Constituent Assembly
election if there is a conspiracy by regressive forces. Addressing
an election rally in the Pathari area of Morang district he claimed
that western Nepal was a base area of Maoists while there was
huge wave in favour of his party in the eastern region, which
he said would ensure victory for his party.
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March 27
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Around 200 CPN-Maoist cadres left
the Shaktikhor cantonment in Chitwan district to take part in
an election rally addressed by Maoist chairman Prachanda at Gaur
in the Rautahat district.
A total of 3,936 people were killed
in the mid-western region during the decade long insurgency, a
report stated. A book released by the INSEC Mid-Western Regional
Office revealed that these people were killed by the State, Maoists
and unidentified groups during the armed insurgency. Though statistics
said that over 13,000 people were killed during the armed insurgency,
the exact number and identity of the people is yet to be verified.
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March 28
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Government urged the four armed
outfits of Terai to come forward for peace talks without proposing
any pre-condition. In a letter sent to the rebel groups, the peace
talks’ team of the ruling SPA said that their demands would be
looked at during negotiations. The four armed outfits - Samyukta
Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha, Terai Cobra, Madhesi Mukti Tigers
and Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha - had earlier agreed to hold
talks with the Government but later demanded that their detained
cadres be released first.
The Maoist chairman Prachanda
said that a conspiracy is being hatched to defer the Constituent
Assembly elections after a wave was seen in favour of his party.
Talking to party cadres in Narayangarh, he said that regressive
forces have become irritated after it is almost definite that
his party will win 150 seats in the polls.
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March 29
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Two persons, identified as Firoz
Khan and Parwez Iraqi Ansari, were killed and two others injured
when unidentified assailants lobbed a bomb inside a mosque in
the Sarauchiya area of Biratnagar. A group called National Defence
Army claimed responsibility for the blast.
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March 30
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Two persons of a family were killed
when a bomb, allegedly left behind by the Maoists, exploded inside
the house of one Parasuram Shah in the Garkhakot VDC of Jajarkot
district. Officials at the Jajarkot District Police Office said
a rocket launcher, a sub-machinegun and some explosives were recovered
from the house. They suspect that the Maoists were using the house
to store arms and explosives.
The YCL cadres threatened villagers
in the Nawalparasi district with eviction if they did not vote
for the CPN-Maoist candidates and the party. Locals of Arkhala,
Bharatipur, Jaubari, Mithukaram, Ruchang, Dedgaon and other villages
in the northern part of the district blamed the YCL of threatening
them to vote for the Maoists or face torture and even forceful
eviction from the villages.
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March 31
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Four persons, including a child,
were injured when a bomb was exploded at Maisthan in the Birgunj
district by the Madhesh Mukti Tigers.
Maoists abducted 10 CPN-UML cadres,
who were on an election campaign at Bhagwati VDC in the Jajarkot
district.
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April 1
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10 Nepali Congress cadres, including
the party’s candidate from Rasuwa, Bal Chandra Poudel, were injured
when a group of around 200 YCL cadres attacked them in the Bhorle
VDC.
Around 100 YCL cadres attacked
the Nepali Congress central member and candidate from constituency
no 2 in Baitadi, Binay Dhoj Chand, at Srikot VDC-4. Several Nepali
Congress leaders and cadres were injured in the attack.
Maoists abducted six Nepali Congress
cadres from Dadeldhura and took them to an undisclosed location.
Maoists abducted district chairman
of Amnesty International, Madhav Gautam, in Arghakhachi 1. He
was abducted from Tagre area of Pokharathok while he was there
on an election monitoring purpose and taken away to an unknown
location.
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April 2
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Six policemen were injured in
the attack when the YCL cadres pelted stones at them as they reached
Kalikasthan in the Rasuwa district.
CPN-Maoist cadres abducted two
Nepali Congress members, Rabindra Shahi and Keshav Bista, from
Jajarkot district.
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April 3
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Five persons were injured in a
bomb blast at Birgunj Bus Park in the Parsa district.
Three CPN-UML activists were injured
in a clash with cadres of the YCL after the latter attacked their
election programme at Bharatpur in the Chitwan district.
Chitwan district joint secretary
of the RPP, Dinesh Adhikari, and other local leaders Dillip Thapa
and Upendra Shrestha sustained injuries when about 90 YCL cadres
attacked them with batons. The YCL cadres also set ablaze all
the election material kept at the RPP office in Madi.
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April 4
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A District Committee member of
the CPN-UML, Dutta Bahadur Rokaya, was injured in an attack by
a group of 65 Maoists in the Dolpa district.
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April 5
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YCL cadres attacked a Nepali Congress
team led by the party’s candidate for Nawalparasi constituency-3
Om Kala Gautam. Two policemen and six NC cadres were injured in
the attack at Kawasoti along the Mahendra highway.
Five CPN-UML activists, a poll
monitor and a Nepali Congress activist were injured in Maoist
attacks in the Ramechhap district.
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April 6
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Unidentified assailants abducted
and subsequently killed Deepak Dahal, a Rastriya Janashakti Party
activist of Bhirgaun VDC-4.
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April 7
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At least 10 persons, including
two children, were injured when a bomb exploded at Ghantaghar
in the Parsa district when the Nepali Congress rally was converging
into an assembly.
Suspected cadres of the JTMM-J
abducted Rajendra Pandey, an election official designated to oversee
the Banauta polling centre in the Mahottari district.
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April 8
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Seven Maoists were killed in police
firing in a clash that erupted between the Maoists and Nepali
Congress workers at Lamahi bazaar area in the Dang district.
A candidate of the CPN-UML from
Surkhet-1 constituency, Rishi Prasad Sharma, was killed after
being hit by a bullet during a clash with Nepali Congress workers.
A group of 50-60 Maoists led by
Sher Bahadur Bhandari abducted 22 Nepali Congress cadres, including
13 women, from Dhading-1 area.
12 Nepali Congress activists were
injured in an attack by YCL cadres at Korthar VDC in the Nawalparasi
district.
Three CPN-UML activists were injured
at Hasaura in the Nawalparasi district when YCL cadres attacked
them.
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April 9
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Police arrested 31 YCL cadres
along with weapons while they were going towards Butwal from Ranyaura
of Rupandehi district in a vehicle. The police seized one pistol,
three rounds of bullets, four knives, 30 sticks and an iron rod
from them.
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April 10
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Voting for the Constituent Assembly
elections concluded with approximately 60 percent of the electorate
exercising their franchise.
One activist of the CPN-UML, Rishiraj
Subedi, was killed by some unidentified persons at Saumarang VDC
in the Kaski district.
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April 12
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Seven persons were injured when Maoists clashed
with the security force personnel at Gaur.
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April14
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A group of 25 Maoists attacked
and injured Nepali Congress leader and the Finance Minister, Ram
Sharan Mahat, at Dudhdevi VDC of Nuwakot district. Seven other
persons, including two Nepali Congress supporters, a police inspector
and four children were also injured in the incident.
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April16
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Senior CPN-Maoist leader Baburam
Bhattarai has said that the first meeting of the CA will respectfully
bid farewell to the monarchy. "We want to respectfully remove
monarchy," Bhattarai said.
CPN-Maoist chairman Prachanda
urged King Gyanendra to vacate the Narayanhity palace on his own.
He said, "The people have already given their mandate. He should
vacate the palace. That will make the job easier for us. And that
will be in the interest of the country, him and all of us."
All the seven ministers from the
CPN-UML quit the Government after its defeat in the CA elections.
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April 17
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Cadres of the YCL set ablaze a
house of a Nepali Congress leader Padam Niraula at Sapteshwar
VDC in the Khotang district.
One YCL cadre, Wastemba Sherpa,
assaulted a Nepali Congress activist Bhakta Bahadur Parajuli in
the Eiselukharka VDC of Khotang district.
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April 18
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CPN-Maoist Chairman Prachanda
said that he is in favour of providing King Gyanendra a ‘graceful
exit’ from the throne that the Shah dynasty has occupied for the
last 240 years. "Even after he leaves the throne he should be
allowed to continue with his business affairs or other activities,
including engagement in politics in future if he so desires,"
Prachanda said.
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April19
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CPN-Maoist Chairman Prachanda
announced that he will lead the new republican Government in the
country.
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April 21
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At least 22 Nepali Congress workers
have been displaced from their villages in the Rukum district
after the CA election due to threats issued by Maoists in the
district.
The US Ambassador in Nepal, Nancy
J. Powell, said that the US is expected to remove the CPN-Maoist
from its terrorist watch list with just a few ‘technicalities’
remaining for doing so.
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April 22
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The US State Department's Deputy
spokesman Tom Casey has said that there has been no change yet
in the status of Maoists as a terrorist outfit despite their winning
the election. "We have an organization being placed on the list
of designated foreign terrorists organizations. (It) has legal
requirements that are placed on us. We have to honour those legal
requirements and we'll certainly do so in the case of Nepal,"
he stated, and hinting of a possible review, said, "You have an
organization that moves away from violence and terror and participates
in a political process and engages in those kinds of legitimate
activities, that would certainly, I think, give people an opportunity
to at least look again at that situation and that organization."
"But at this point, you know there's no change in their status
and we'll follow the law as appropriate," he added further.
The CPN-Maoist officially claimed
that the party must head the new Government. A meeting of the
Maoist Central Secretariat held at party Chairman Prachanda’s
residence at Naya Bazaar in Kathmandu decided to lead the still
to-be-formed Government claiming the polls outcome to be positive.
The meeting also decided to implement a republican system of governance
from the first meeting of the CA and added that there would be
no compromises on the issue with other parties.
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April 23
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The counting of votes under the
Proportional Representation (PR) system has been completed. The
CPN-Maoist lead the tally with 3144202 votes out of the total
10739088 votes cast - 29.27 percent of vote share. The NC and
the UML are in second and third positions, respectively, bagging
2269863 (21 percent) and 2183370 votes (20.33 percent). The Madheshi
Janadhikar Forum (MJF) and Terai Madhes Loktantrik Party are in
fourth and fifth positions, respectively, wining 678327 (6.31
percent) and 338930 votes (3.15 percent). The Rastriya Prajatantra
Party is in sixth position with 263431 votes. The Election Commission
has said that it would apply the Modified Saint Logue system to
calculate exact number of seats won by these parties based on
votes they have garnered. However, rough estimates suggest that
the Maoists could secure around 100 seats. There are 335 seats
under PR category and approximately around 30000 votes will account
for one seat.
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April 24
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The CPN-Maoist Chairman Prachanda
said that he could not rule out the use of violence in future.
"Right now, I cannot renounce every kind of violence," Prachanda
told journalists after meeting ambassadors and United Nations
(UN) staff.
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April 28
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The CPN-Maoist chairman Prachanda
said that there is no alternative to leadership of the next Government
since the people have already given the Maoists the mandate by
making them the largest party. Speaking at its central committee
meeting, Prachanda said that his party will lead the next Government
but all decisions will be taken based on understanding.
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April 29
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The kin of a Member of Parliament
from the CPN-Maoist, Binod Kumar Upadhyaya, was killed in a bomb
blast carried out by unidentified persons in the Bodhbar Village
Development Committee-3 area of the Rupandehi district. Binod's
uncle Surendra Uyadhyaya was killed in the blast that occurred
inside Binod's house. The regional coordinator of the Akhil Tarai
Mukti Morcha, Rakesh, and Anil of the Madhesi Tigers said their
outfits had triggered the blast. They also claimed the explosion
was triggered to punish the Member of Parliament for contesting
the Constituent Assembly polls.
Police seized a cache of weapons
and ammunition from a taxi at Lekhnath in the Kaski district and
arrested one person in this connection. Two bags containing an
Italian revolver and a locally-made pistol, bullets, grenade and
a khukuri were recovered.
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April 30
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The US, which still regards the
CPN-Maoist as a terrorist organisation, has indicated it would
seek "legitimate reconciliation and reintegration politically"
in Nepal after the Maoists’ election victory. "In any terrorist
organisation or any terrorist situation, if there is a way for
reconciliation legally and lawfully through the political system,
obviously, we prefer that," said Dell L. Dailey, Coordinator of
the Office for Counter-terrorism, while briefing reporters on
the State Department’s annual terrorism report. The Country Report
on Terrorism 2007 acknowledged that Nepal experienced no significant
acts of international terrorism in 2007, but said "several incidents
of domestic terrorism and politically-motivated violence occurred
in urban areas and in the Terai."
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May 1
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The US ambassador to Nepal, Nancy
Powell, met with CPN-Maoist Chairman Prachanda at the latter's
residence at Nayabazaar in Kathmandu. According to a Maoist source,
Prachanda said the US should remove the Maoists from its terrorist
list. "Powell said the act of removing the Maoists from the US
terrorist list is delayed due to bureaucratic process," the source
said.
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May 2
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The deadline to submit the final
list of candidates to be elected under the PR system to the CA
ended. All the 25 parties qualified to win at least one seat in
the CA submitted lists. Under the PR system, the Maoists have
100 seats, the Nepali Congress 73 seats, the CPN-UML 70 seats,
the Madhesi People’s Right Forum 22 seats, and the Terai Madhesh
Democratic Party 11 seats. The rest will go to the fringe parties,
from far-Right to the far-Left. The UML, however, decided not
to send any of its standing committee members to the CA. The Election
Commission will now ask the parties to make necessary corrections,
if any, in their PR list and announce the final names of the 575
members. The Cabinet will nominate the remaining 26 members, taking
the total to 601.
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May 3
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The dead body of an abducted VDC
secretary of the Bispitti VDC, Allauddin Ansari, was found buried
at the bank of Chharahara River in the Sitamarhi district of the
Indian State of Bihar. According to Ramshila Devi of Halkhori-5,
who was arrested in connection with Ansari's abduction, Ansari
was murdered a week after his abduction by an unidentified armed
group on January 10 from his rented home.
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May 5
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The CPN-Maoist Chairman Prachanda
directed the YCL cadres to strictly avoid intimidation and attacks
against the activists of rival political parties.
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