January 2
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Communist Party of
Nepal (Maoist) 'Chairman',
Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda, announces the end of the four-month
old unilateral cease-fire.
The first annual
report of the RNA's Human Rights Cell, the RNA Human Rights Report
2061, has recorded 10,725 abductions and 72 killings by the Maoists
during the last six months of the year. It also recorded 65 cases
of explosion, 40 cases of extortion and looting, and 30 cases
of threatening by the Maoists.
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January 3
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A civilian is injured
during a series of Maoist-triggered blasts, including one at the
residence of a Deputy Superintendent of Police in the western
city of Pokhara.
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January 5
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Three police personnel
were killed and two injured in a Maoist attack on an Armed Police
Force (APF) security check-post at Ranjha chowk in Nepalgunj.
Two police personnel
and a civilian were injured when suspected Maoists opened fire
at them at Bhanu Chowk in Mahendranagar town.
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January 6
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Three APF personnel
were killed and another sustained injuries when Maoists opened
fire targeting a security force (SF) patrol at Bhairahawa in the
Rupandehi district.
A Maoist was killed
in a clash with SFs at Chandranigahapur in the Rautahat district
along the Mahendra Highway.
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January 8
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Maoists killed two
children, aged two and five, from the same family by detonating
a bomb inside a house in the Pahara village of Dolpa district.
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January 9
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Maoists raided the
state-owned Rastriya Banijya Bank’s district branch in Surkhet
and looted over Rupees three million.
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January 11
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Seven police personnel
are killed in a Maoist attack at Dhangadhi, headquarters of the
Kailali district.
12 Maoists were killed
in two separate encounters with the security forces in the Syangja
and Tanahun districts.
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January 14
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12 SF personnel are
killed and eight persons sustain injuries in a series of attacks
carried out by the Maoists at different police posts of the Kathmandu
Valley.
16 insurgents and
a soldier are killed during clashes at Manakamana in the Syangja
district.
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January 15
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One civilian was killed when a security
patrol and Maoists exchanged fire at Kohalpur in the Banke district.
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January 17
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A Maoist was killed and two persons,
including a civilian, were injured during a shootout between the
insurgents and SFs in Tribhuvan Nagar Municipality of Dang district.
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January 18
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Following
the Government imposed ban on protest demonstrations of the seven
agitating political parties, 'Chairman' of the Communist Party of
Nepal (Maoist), Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda said that his
party would not resort to the use of force, infiltration or any
other provocative activities in the peaceful programmes of the parties.
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January 19
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Maoists shot at and injured two police
personnel guarding a police post near the Traffic Chowk in Mahendranagar
bazaar of Kanchanpur district.
Over 150 persons, including leaders
of the seven-party alliance, prominent human rights activists
and student leaders, were arrested to prevent the alliance’s rally
planned in the capital Kathmandu.
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January 20
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Six police personnel are killed and
four others sustain injuries when Maoists launched simultaneous
attacks on the BP Chowk security check post, Jamunaha Police Post
and the Customs Office in the Nepalgunj town of Banke district.
The Government issues three month
house-arrest orders against Nepali Congress president Girija Prasad
Koirala, CPN-UML general secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal and Nepal
Workers’ and Peasants’ Party chief Narayan Man Bijukche.
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January 21
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17 Maoists, six security force (SF)
personnel and two civilians are killed in a clash between the
SFs and insurgents at the Jhurjhure and Jyamire regions of Makwanpur
district.
Three insurgents were killed in
encounters with the troops in the Palpa and Tehrathum districts.
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January 22
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Suspected Maoists shot dead Bijaylal
Das, president of the Nepal Sadbhavana Party, at Janakpurdham
in the Dhanusha district.
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January 24
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Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) claims
that at least 25 Maoists were killed and several others sustained
injuries in a gun-battle in the Bhakunde area of Palpa district.
Two SF personnel, one Maoist and
a civilian were killed and four SF personnel sustained injuries
when Maoists launched simultaneous attacks in the Nepalgunj town
of Banke district.
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January 26
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Five insurgents are killed when a
bomb in their possession accidentally exploded at Shiva Nagar
in the Siraha district.
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January 27
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At least 11 insurgents and two soldiers
are killed in the overnight clashes in the eastern district of
Bhojpur.
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January 29
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Two Maoists are killed in a clash
with the SFs at Likawapokhari in the Khotang district. A woman
was killed and another injured in crossfire between the SFs and
Maoists in Nepalgunj district.
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January 31
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At least 11 soldiers are killed in
Tansen, headquarters of the Palpa district, during overnight clashes
between SFs and Maoist insurgents.
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February 1
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In his address to the nation, King
Gyanendra said there has been significant improvement in the security
and governance situation in Nepal over the last year and refused
to give up his year-old direct rule of the country as demanded
by the seven-party opposition alliance and has reiterated that
elections will be conducted to all representative bodies in the
country by mid-April 2007.
He said, “if those who have gone
astray wish to rejoin the mainstream of peace and creativity,
democracy and coordination, and if they wish to dedicate themselves
in the service of the people through the ballot, abjuring their
murderous acts against the nation and people, we make it clear
that they will be given the security and opportunity necessary
to shoulder the responsibilities of governance in their capacity
as the people's representatives, having won the people's confidence
through the universally accepted democratic exercise.”
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February 2
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An elected ward chairman of Biratnagar
municipality, Triveni Majhi, was seriously wounded when he was
attacked by suspected Maoists at Janapath tole.In the attack,
a civilian, Dipak Gurung, was killed.
A suspected Maoist was shot dead
at the Bus Park in the Dharan area of Sunsari district.
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February 4
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At least three persons, including
two Maoists, are killed in an explosion at Mirgualia in the Morang
district.
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February 6
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An Armed Police Force officer is
killed and four others were injured in a Maoist triggered bomb
explosion along the Mahendranagar-Dhangadhi Highway section in
far-western Nepal.
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February 7
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At least five persons are killed
when the Maoists attacked a base camp of the RNA and the Panauti
municipality office in Kavrepalanchowk district.
In Udayapur district, five SF personnel
and a Maoist 'section commander' were killed when Maoists attacked
a patrolling team of the SFs at Simaltar in the Triyuga municipality.
Five SF personnel were killed and
three sustained injuries when Maoists launched a massive attack
in Dhankuta. The Maoists targeted the district administration
office, regional administration office and all security agencies
in the district, including the second brigade of the RNA.
Two Maoists were killed when they
clashed with the troops at Lalpur village in the Suda Village
Development Committee (VDC) area of Kanchanpur district.
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February 8
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Municipal elections saw an average
voter turn out of 20 percent. Nationwide, out of 1,443,310 voters,
only 284,225 cast their votes.
Maoists killed a police personnel
and a civilian, bombed 12 Government buildings and destroyed the
local bank in the eastern town of Dhankuta. Two Maoists were also
killed in the attack.
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February 9
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16 SF personnel, four Maoists and
a civilian are killed in clashes at Rambhapur area along the Sunwal-Butwal
section of the Sidhhartha Highway in Nawalparasi district.
Two Maoists were killed in an encounter
with the troops at Satdobato in the western district of Gorkha.
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February 12
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A woman was killed in a landmine
explosion in the Murgiya area of Mahendra Highway in Rupandehi
district.
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February 13
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Former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur
Deuba and former minister for Physical Planning and Works, Prakash
Man Singh, who were put under custody by the Royal Commission
for Corruption Control (RCCC) for alleged irregularities in the
Melamchi Drinking Water Project (MDWP), are released.
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February 14
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Three RNA soldiers were killed during
a clash with Maoists at Dhurkot on the border of the Nawalparasi
and Palpa districts.
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February 16
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One civilian is killed during an
Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast triggered by the Maoists
at Khumariya area of Madhuban VDC in Parsa district.
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February 18
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Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist announces
an “indefinite political strike from April 3.
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February 19
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In a message to the nation on the
occasion of the 56th National Democracy Day on February 19, King
Gyanendra called on all the willing political parties to come
forth to fully activate, at the earliest, the stalled democratic
process in the greater interest of the nation.
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February 20
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Three Maoists, including a woman
cadre, were killed, while a child standing nearby sustained injuries
when a bomb they were carrying accidentally exploded in the Sarikhet
VDC area of Makwanpur district.
Government extends the house arrest
period of CPN-UML General Secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal by another
two months.
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February 23
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Maoists shot dead a Nepali Congress
(NC) activist, Bindeshwore Yadav at Santipur area of Dhanusa district.
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February 26
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16 Maoists were killed during a clash
between SFs and the insurgents at Satyabati in the Palpa district.
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February 27
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Three SF personnel and a civilian
are killed when Maoists attacked a team of troops at Kavre Bhanjyang
area in the Kavrepalanchowk district.
Five persons are killed during a
bomb blast in Mangalsen, the district headquarters of Achham.
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February 28
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At least 29 persons (18 Maoists and
11 security force personnel) were killed in a clash at Panena,
a bordering area between the Arghakhanchi and Palpa districts.
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March 2
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Maoists trigger several blasts at
four different offices in the Jhapa district. ‘Pressure cooker
bombs’ were detonated at a local branch office of the United Nations
World Food Programme and Government offices of the Land Revenue,
Nepal Telecom and the Agriculture Development Bank. However, there
were no reports of any casualties.
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March 5
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One police personnel was killed and
over a dozen others injured when a large group of Maoists launched
co-ordinated attacks on key Government installations, including
the District Administration Office and the District Police Office
in Ilam Bazaar, district headquarters of eastern district of Ilam.
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March 7
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At least nine persons were killed
in a Maoist attack at Ilam district headquarters. According to
a Ministry of Defense press release, two civilians, three soldiers
and four Maoists were killed during the incident. The Maoists
also set free all 103 prisoners, including 32 insurgents, after
attacking the District Prison.
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March 8
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Four SF personnel were killed and
five others injured in a bomb explosion carried out by the Maoists
at a temporary security post in Ghorahi Bazaar of Dang district.
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March 9
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At least five Maoists were killed
in an encounter with the security forces at Rangapur Kateni in
the Rautahat district.
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March 10
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Seven soldiers were killed during
clashes with the Maoists in the southern part of Ilam district.
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March 14
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The insurgents impose an indefinite
blockade of Kathmandu and other major towns. Maoists ordered the
closure of all roads to the capital, disrupting the movement of
people and goods to the city. Consequently, vehicular movement
in Siraha, Saptari, Udaypur, Biratnagar, Dhankuta, Jhapa, Ilam,
Chitwan, Pokhara, Butwal, Nepalgunj and Mahendranagar was completely
disrupted.
Chairman of the Communist Party of
Nepal (Maoist), Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda, expelled two
senior leaders of the outfit, Ravindra Shrestha and Mani Thapa
alias Anukul. Prachanda termed the two leaders "deserters of the
revolution and servants of the autocratic monarchy and counter-revolution."
The expulsion comes in the wake of accusations leveled against
Prachanda and another senior Maoist leader Dr. Baburam Bhattarai
by the expelled.
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March 16
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One security force personnel and
a Maoist insurgent were killed in an encounter between the SFs
and Maoists in the Kakadbitta area of Jhapa district.
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March 17
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Maoists shot dead two civilians,
Wakil Musalman and Murtara Dewan, in the Guthi Suryapur village
of Nawalparasi district, on charges of being involved in supplying
arms to the anti-Maoist village committee.
A 13-year-old child was killed in
a bomb blast carried out by suspected Maoists at Kalaiya in the
Bara district.
Normal life across the nation continued
to be affected as the Maoists-called indefinite blockade entered
its fourth day with almost all vehicles keeping off the main roads.
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March 19
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Representatives of the seven political
parties and Maoists announced an agreement to launch a fresh agitation
on April 6 against King Gyanendra. Both the sides made public
the Memorandum of Understanding through separate statements. The
agitation programme starting on April 6 includes a four-day general
strike and civil disobedience movement, besides a large public
rally in the capital Kathmandu on April 8.
Maoists withdrew the blockade they
had announced in the capital and district headquarters. Issuing
a joint statement, CPN (Maoist) chairman Prachanda and senior
Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai said the party has called off
the blockade and all other protest programmes with effect from
March 20.
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March 20
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13 soldiers were reportedly killed
during a Maoist ambush in the Dapcha area of Kavre district.
Two civilians were killed when an
explosive placed by the Maoists to enforce their blockade exploded
along the Biratnagar-Rangeli road near Loandra river in the Morang
district.
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March 21
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Nine police personnel and three Maoists
were killed when the latter attacked the Ilaka police post at
Birtamod in Jhapa district. At least 22 police personnel were
injured in the attack.
20 Maoists were killed in a security
operation carried out by the troops at Dare Chowk area in Dhading
district.
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March 22
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Two Armed Police Force personnel
and three Maoists were killed in a clash at Urlabari in the Morang
district.
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March 23
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Supreme Court (SC) upholds Section
9 of the Terrorists and Disruptive Activities (Control and Punishment)
Ordinance of 2005 that authorises the Government to keep a person
in preventive detention for up to a year without prosecution or
trial. It also upheld the terrorist tag on leaders of the Communist
Party of Nepal (Maoist), approving the two-and-a-half-year-old
Government decision to ban the insurgents. "
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March 24
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Two police personnel were killed
when Maoists attacked a Ward Police Office at Mujaliya area of
Janakpur municipality.
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March 25
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Suspected Maoists detonated a bomb
at the residence of Assistant Minister for General Administration,
Toran Bahadur Gurung, at Samakhusi in the capital Kathmandu.
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March 27
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Two Maoists and a civilian were killed
when troops launched an aerial attack in the surroundings of Bagh
Bhairav Higher Secondary School at Thokarpa VDC in Sindhupalchowk
district to flush out Maoists
Two Maoists were killed in clashes
with the security forces at Pandavkhani area in Baglung district
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March 28
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The RNA disclosed that over 8029
Maoists have been killed in security actions since its deployment
against them in November 2001. Army officials informed in Kathmandu
that of the 8029, 5086 were killed after the breakdown of cease-fire
in August 2003. An additional 1723 Maoists were killed thus far,
including 401 of them since September 3, 2005 when the insurgents
had declared a unilateral truce. 635 army personnel lost their
lives since the breakdown of peace talks in August 2003 till March
28, 2006.
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March 30
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Two security force personnel and
one Maoist were killed during clashes at Bagmati checkpoint bordering
the Sarlahi and Rautahat districts.
Suspected Maoists shot dead a former
police personnel at Bhanu Chowk in the Dang district headquarters,
Ghorahi
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April 1
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Two police personnel were killed
and two persons were injured when Maoist insurgents attacked a
police post at Gaur, headquarters of the Rautahat district
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April 3
|
Communist Party of Nepal- Maoist
(CPN-Maoist) announced that it would observe a unilateral cease-fire
within the Kathmandu valley with effect from April 3-evening until
further notice.
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April 4
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Two Maoists were killed in an encounter
with the security forces in the Naumule area of Dailekh district
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April 5
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Five police personnel and four Maoists
were killed during clashes at Malangwa, headquarters of the Sarlahi
district
Six security force personnel were
killed when an improvised explosive device planted by the Maoists
exploded near Surunga in the Jhapa district.
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April 6
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Over 400 pro-democracy protesters
and journalists were arrested in Kathmandu while dozens of others
were injured on the first day of the four-day nationwide general
strike called by the seven-party alliance (SPA).
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April 7
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At least four Maoists and two civilians
were killed after Maoists attacked security bases in the Butwal
and Kapilavastu districts.
Potests continued on the second day
of the four-day nationwide strike against King Gyanendra being
organised by the seven-party alliance. The district post office
in Lalitpur was reportedly set ablaze and students at the Tribhuvan
University in Kirtipur ransacked the Deans office and briefly
held several officers hostage. Public transport, shops and schools
across the country were reportedly shut.
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April 8
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Government imposes curfew in the
Kathmandu Valley from 10 am to 9 pm effective from April 8 until
further notice.
Local administrations in the Surkhet,
Butwal and Chitwan districts issued fresh curfew orders for their
respective districts, while the administration in Nepalgunj extends
the existing curfew order by four hours.
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April 9
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Three persons were killed and over
26 protesters injured when security forces opened fire at anti-King
protestors in different parts of the country.
The seven party alliance on April
9 announced more protest programmes for April 10 and the future.
"The general strike will continue," a statement issued
by the Joint Mass Movement Central Coordination Committee said.
Maoists announce a nationwide campaign,
which includes defying curfew orders, capturing highways and breaking
royal statues.
Authorities issue a 12-hour curfew
in the western city of Pokhara.
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April 10
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70 demonstrators were injured when
security forces fired rubber bullets on activists of the SPA at
Dhangadhi, the district headquarters of Kailali.
Thirty-five persons were injured
when security force personnel fired rubber bullets in the Bus
Park area at Gongabu and Kalanki in the capital Kathmandu.
Authorities clamped daytime curfew
at Bharatpur in Chitwan district, Pokhara in Kaski district, Butwal
in Rupandehi district and Banepa in Kavre district.
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April 11
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A six year old child was killed in
a Maoist triggered improvised explosive device (IED) blast in
the Chakuliya area of Kailali district
Over 350 anti-King protestors were
injured in police action in the Gongabu area of capital Kathmandu.
Government prohibits strikes in 15
different essential services by exercising the authority provided
for in the Essential Services Operation Act, 2014 B.S.
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April 12
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An anti-King protester was killed
and 36 others injured when police opened fire at Parasi Bazaar,
Maheshpur Chowk and Bhrikuti Chowk in Nawalparasi district
In Syangja, at least 30 persons were
injured in police action. In Dipayal, at least 50 persons, including
two children, were hurt when police resorted to baton-charge.
In Sarlahi, at least 10 protesters were wounded when police intervened
in a bicycle rally. In Gaighat, more than 30 demonstrators were
injured in police action while in Jhapa, at least 28 demonstrators
were hurt in police action at Chandragadhi.
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April 13
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A Maoist insurgent, identified as
Ujjwal, was killed during a search operation conducted by the
security forces in the Dorpa area of Choudidanda village development
committee (VDC) in the Khotang district
King Gyanendra, in a message to the
nation on the occasion of the New Years Day, called upon
all political parties to join in a dialogue to bear the responsibility
of activating the multiparty democratic polity and contribute
towards the same.
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April 14
|
Leaders of the SPA reject the King's
offer for dialogue with political parties.
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
Chairman Prachanda terms the King's address has shown "feudal
stubbornness".
Security force personnel arrested
more than 100 demonstrators, including 53 women and 14 journalists,
from a rally at Baglung bazaar, the district headquarters of Baglung.
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April 16
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Maoists killed one Armed Police Force
(APF) personnel in the Beldangi area of Jhapa district
A meeting of the Joint Movement Central
Coordination Committee (JMCCC) of the SPA held in the capital
Kathmandu decided, among other issues, not to pay tax to the Government.
The SPA also called on everyone "to boycott any products
and services of those businesses and industries belonging to the
royal family and its family members."
In Rupandehi district, 100 protestors
were wounded when soldiers opened fire at approximately 25,000
agitators at the District Administrative Office in Sandhikharka.
At least six protesters were injured
in police shooting at Balkhu in Kathmandu.
King Gyanendra met US Ambassador
James F Moriarty, Chinese Ambassador Sun Heping and Indian Ambassador
Shiv Shankar Mukherji separately at the Narayanhity Royal Palace.
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April 17
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Maoists shot dead a traffic police
Inspector at Chandranigahapur in the Rautahat district.
One anti-King protestor was killed
and several others injured when security forces opened fire at
agitators at Nijgadh in the Bara district.
In the capital Kathmandu, police
action on protestors at the Chabahil-Chuchepati area left 62 injured.
In Kalaiya, at least 24 agitators were injured when police intervened
in a rally. In Birgunj, over a dozen activists were injured when
police intervened in a demonstration. In Itahari, SF personnel
fired dozens of rounds at demonstrators, injuring 24. In Nepalgunj,
20 demonstrators were injured in police action.
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April 18
|
Two
district-level Maoists, Birendra Thapa alias Sandarv and Wakil Bahadur
Shahi alias Chirag, were killed in a security operation in the Latikoili
Village Development Committee area of Surkhet district.
An anti-King protestor was killed
during police baton-charge on a rally in Nepalgunj, while at least
70 others were injured.
In Pokhara, at least 36 agitators
were injured when security forces opened fire at a rally in the
Savagriha Chowk.
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April 19
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Four
anti-King protestors were killed and over a hundred injured when
SF personnel opened fired on protestors at Chandragadhi in the Jhapa
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April 20
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Three
persons were killed and over 50 injured when SFs opened fire at
anti-King protestors demonstrating in the Kalanki area of the capital
Kathmandu defying curfew orders.
Over 36 protestors were injured in
Patan when they clashed with riot police. Close to seven thousand
people reportedly defied curfew orders in the Bansbari area and
reached the Ring Road where the Police fired teargas to disperse
them.
The Indian Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh's Special Envoy, Karan Singh, met with King Gyanendra at
the Narayanhiti Royal Palace in Kathmandu.
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April 21
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King
Gyanendra, in a televised address, announced that he would hand
over the political power he had assumed 14 months ago back to the
people and asked the Seven-Party Alliance (SPA) to name a new Prime
Minister. The SPA rejects the offer as inadequate.
Maoist spokesperson Krishna Mahara,
in an interview with the BBC Nepali service, said his party would
not accept anything less than a Constituent Assembly.
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April 22
|
More
than 200 pro-democracy activists protesting against the April 21-speech
of King Gyanendra and defying the curfew orders were wounded when
SFs opened fire at them at different places in Kathmandu.
In Pokhara, nearly 100 thousand people
joined in the SPA-led demonstration while rallies were organised
in other western district headquarters like Baglung Bazaar, Beni,
Kusma, Damauli and Gorkha.
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April 23
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Five Maoists, a SF personnel and
a civilian were killed in an attack by the Maoists on security
bases in Chautara, headquarters of the Sindhupalchowk district.
20 anti-King protesters were injured
when police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at 5,000 agitators
at Mahadevsthan in the Koteshwor area of capital Kathmandu. In
Sukedhara, 10 protesters were wounded by rubber bullets. Over
a hundred thousand people assembled at Gongabu Chowk in defiance
of the curfew issued by authorities.
SPA announces fresh nationwide protests,
aiming to bring a mass of two million people into Kathmandu on
April 25.
Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran
said India's support for the twin-pillar theory of constitutional
monarchy and multi-party democracy reflected the mood of the people.
"It was for the people of Nepal to decide what course they
want to take tomorrow," he said.
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April 24
|
In
a televised address to the nation, King Gyanendra restored the
House of Representatives that was dissolved on May 22, 2002.
Welcoming
King Gyanendra's proclamation to reinstate the House of Representatives,
Nepali Congress General Secretary Ram Chandra Poudel said the
seven parties will now move ahead "upholding the spirit of
the demonstrators and the SPA's roadmap based on the 12-point
understanding with Maoists".
SPA,
following the royal proclamation, withdraws its nationwide indefinite
general strike.
Issuing
a press statement, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) rejected
the royal proclamation. The statement further said the reinstatement
of the House of Representative is not as per the 12-point pact
reached between the Maoists and SPA.
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April 25
|
The
SPA welcoming King Gyanendra's proclamation chose Nepali Congress
president Girija Prasad Koirala to head the all-party government
after the House of Representatives convenes on April 28
Chief
of the Army Staff (CoAS) Pyar Jung Thapa said the Royal Nepalese
Army (RNA) is positive about the merging of Maoist troops with
the national army.
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April 26
|
The
Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) announced a unilateral cease-fire
for three months with immediate effect.
One
police personnel was killed and another injured in clashes between
the Maoists and troops at Gurje Bhanjang in the Nuwakot district.
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April 27
|
King Gyanendra appointed Nepali Congress
president Girija Prasad Koirala as the new Prime Minister.
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April 28
|
The
first sitting of the reinstated House of Representatives registered
a proposal by Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala to hold an
election to a constituent assembly.
11
Royal Nepalese Army soldiers were abducted by the former from
Ramdittha bazaar in the Dhankuta district.
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April 29
|
Eight soldiers were killed and nine
others were injured in a landmine explosion within the RNA barrack
at Tamghas, the district headquarters of Gulmi.
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April 30
|
The
second meeting of the reinstated House of Representatives (HoR)
unanimously passed the proposal for elections to a Constituent
Assembly.
Nine
Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) soldiers, who were abducted by Maoists
from Leguwa in Dhankuta district on April 27, were released at
Jeetpur Bazaar in the presence of human rights activist.
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May 3
|
Reciprocating
the Communist Party Nepal-Maoist’s three-month-long unilateral
truce, the Government announced a cease-fire and also invited
the Maoists for talks.
Government
revoked the elections to the municipal bodies, conducted on February
8, 2006. It also revoked appointments to the District Development
Committees and cancelled the appointment of regional and zonal
administrators by the erstwhile royal Government.
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May 4
|
Maoist
Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda said that his party
would sit for talks with the Government. Prachanda also said his
party has forwarded a draft of a code of conduct to be adhered
to by both the sides during the period of talks.
Prime
Minister Girija Prasad Koirala said that the Maoists can be included
in an interim Government in the future and they can take part
in elections to a Constituent Assembly.
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May 5
|
Government
formed a five-member judicial committee under former Supreme Court
judge Krishna Jung Rayamajhi to investigate the royal regime’s
suppression of the April mass movement.
|
May 7
|
The Cabinet annulled all appointments
made by different governments since October 4, 2002. The Government
also recalled Nepal’s Ambassadors to 12 countries including India,
China, Germany, France, Russia, Japan, the UK, Qatar, Myanmar,
Vietnam, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
|
May 9
|
A
group of Maoists abducted five personnel of the Armed Police Forces
(APF) from Badraghat in the Nawalparasi district.
|
May 11
|
Maoists
released five Armed Police Force (APF) officials whom they had
abducted from Badraghat in the Nawalparasi district on May 9.
Two
senior leaders of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), Matrika
Yadav, and Suresh Ale Magar, have been freed from Nakkhu prison
in Lalitpur as per orders of the Lalitpur Appellate Court.
|
May 12
|
Security
force personnel arrested five ex-ministers, former home minister
Kamal Thapa, former foreign minister Ramesh Nath Pandey, former
state minister for information and communication Shrish SJB Rana,
former local development minister Tanka Dhakal and former state
minister for health Nikshya SJB Rana.
The
Government also placed under suspension three service chiefs,
Nepal Police Chief Shyam Bhakta Thapa, Armed Police Force (APF)
Chief Shahbir Thapa and Chief of National Investigation Department.
Maoists
beat to death a former insurgent, Prem Bahadur Thokar, a resident
of Jagatpur VDC-6 in Nayabasti.
|
May 13
|
Maoists
make public their roadmap for holding dialogue with the Seven
Party Alliance (SPA) Government.
Two
persons, including a minor, were injured when a Maoist-left socket
bomb exploded at Manpang-8 in the Tanahun district.
|
May 17
|
The
House of Representatives (HoR) passed a proposal, tabled by Prime
Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, depriving the King of privileges
enjoyed by him and declared the reinstated House as “supreme.”
According to the proposal, the provision of Supreme Commander-in-Chief
of the Royal Nepalese Army being held by the King has been scrapped,
thereby depriving the King of his control over the army.
|
May 20
|
Home
Minister Krishna Sitaula said that he will head a three-member Government
delegation for peace talks with the Maoists. |
May 22
|
At
least twelve private banks were asked by the Communist Party of
Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M) to ‘donate’ Rupees 2.5 million each. |
May 23
|
Maoists
have killed the two sons of Nepali Congress Rautahat district
leader Jogendra Sahani, whom they had abducted on May 22.
The
Maoist leadership has reportedly stated that they saw nothing
wrong in having the rule of law, multiparty competitive politics,
respect for human rights and freedom of the press as pre-conditions
to elections to the constituent assembly. “
|
May 25
|
Maoist negotiating team led by Krishna
Bahadur Mahara holds discussions with leaders of the Seven-Party
Alliance (SPA).
Cabinet announces the formation of
a three-member team to hold negotiations with the Maoists. Home
Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula, coordinator of the Government
team, says that formal talks would start in a day or two.
|
May 26
|
Representatives of the Government
and the Maoists meet at Gokarna near the capital Kathmandu and
hold the first round meeting of the peace talks. A 25-point Cease-fire
Code of Conduct is announced to pave the way for elections to
the Constituent Assembly.
|
May 27
|
The coordinator of the Maoist talks
team, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, speaking at a mass meeting organized
by the Maoists in Janakpur, demands a national convention with
participation of people from all sections of society, to draft
a new constitution and annul the present one.
|
May 29
|
In a press statement, Maoist leader
Baburam Bhattarai reiterates the demand for immediate dissolution
of the House of Representatives and the present Government and
formation of an interim government. Bhattarai further says that
all the powers should be handed over to the 'Broad National Political
Conference', which will comprise of various political sections,
after the dissolution of the present Government and Parliament.
He also says the existing constitution should be replaced by an
interim constitution.
Maoist chairman Prachanda, addressing
a mass meeting at Chakari in Handikhola VDC-1 of Makwanpur district
says that his party is committed to making the current peace talks
a success. Speaking during the same meeting Baburam Bhattarai
warns of a "violent storm" of protests in case the talks
fail.
|
May 30
|
House of Representatives constitutes
a 21-member high-level "Talks Process Parliamentary Monitoring
Committee" under the chairmanship of Speaker Subash Chandra
Nemwang to monitor the peace process and implementation of the
code of conduct, recommend various political parties and, if needed,
form sub-committees.
|
May 31
|
The Maoist negotiation team leader,
Krishna Bahadur Mahara, addressing a function organised by the
Samyukta Loktantrik Morcha in Kathmandu, says that the Maoists
are close to reaching an agreement with the parties on supervision
of arms of both the armies by a credible organization.
|
June 1
|
The Maoist negotiation team leader,
Krishna Bahadur Mahara, speaking at a press conference in the
capital Kathmandu, reiterates the demand for dissolution of the
House of Representatives and the present Government saying the
HoR and the Government do not represent the forces which were
actively involved in the people's movement. "We want to see
the dissolution of both as they do not truly represent the forces
which are still outside," he says.
Group of people affiliated to the
Maoist Retaliation Committee kill a three-year-old boy, said to
be the son of a Maoist cadre, in an attack at their residence
at Phulika VDC-2 in Kapilvastu.
|
June 2
|
Maoists organize a huge mass meeting
at the Open Air Theatre at Tundikhel in capital Kathmandu. An
estimated 200,000 cadres and supporters of the Maoists as well
as people from various walks of life attend the meeting.
Talking to the media at the end of
his two-day visit at Kathmandu, leader of the European Commission
(EC) delegation, Hervé Jouanjean, asks the Maoists to shun
violence and commit to decommissioning their weapons as a precondition
for free and fair elections to a Constituent Assembly.
|
June 5
|
Dinanath Sharma, a member of the
Maoist talks' team, asks Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala
to persuade India to release 137 Maoists who are lodged in various
Indian jails.
Former Home Minister Kamal Thapa
and Local Development Minister Tanka Dhakal file Habeas Corpus
writ petitions in the Supreme Court challenging the legality of
their detention under the Public Security Act.
|
June 6
|
Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala
arrives in New Delhi on a four-day visit to India.
Maolist coordinator of the peace
talks, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, speaking at a press conference
at Dhangadhi, says that the peace talks may be stalled if the
Parliament is not dissolved soon. He says, "Parliament should
not be allowed to continue any longer. A majority of those who
got democracy revived are not represented in the current House
of Representatives (HoR). As such, it should be dissolved within
a week. Otherwise, the peace talks will be stalled."
United States Ambassador to Nepal,
James F Moriarty, speaking to reporters at Pokhara indicates the
possibility of removal of the terrorist tag on the Maoists provided
they shun violence. He accuses Maoists of amassing weapons, continuing
recruitment, intensifying extortion, forcing people to take part
in their mass meeting in Kathmandu and killing two political cadres
in Rautahat recently.
|
June 8
|
The Minister of State for Forest
and Land Conservation, Gopal Rai, speaking to reporters at Ilam,
accuses Maoists of not abiding by the 25-point Cease-fire Code
of Conduct. He says that the Maoists have continued extortion
and not returned the captured houses and land to the rightful
owners.
|
June 9
|
India's Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee,
after a meeting with Prime Minister Koirala says that Nepal and
India have sorted out issues regarding defence cooperation. "All
issues relating to defence cooperation have been sorted out. Very
soon, our defence cooperation group, the joint consultative committee,
which is an institutional arrangement, will be meeting and they
will be discussing the expanding areas of cooperation", he
says.
Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala
tells reporters upon his arrival from Delhi at the Tribhuvan International
Airport that India has agreed to support Nepal for inviting United
Nations to supervise the management of weapons of the Maoists.
The CPN-UML general secretary, Madhav
Kumar Nepal, addressing the seventh national conference of the
Tribhuvan University Progressive Teachers' Union says that the
House of Representatives should be dissolved on reasonable grounds.
|
June 11
|
Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula
hold talks with Maoist leaders Prachanda and Baburam Bhattarai
at Siklesh.
|
June 12
|
Government decides to withdraw all
cases filed under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Control
and Punishment) Ordinance (TADO) as part of the concessions being
made to the Maoists. The decision to withdraw TADO is tabled by
the Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula at the cabinet meeting.
Leader of the Maoist talks team,
Krishna Bahadur Mahara, says in Kathmandu that the Government
and Maoist leadership have become flexible in their stance on
giving continuity to the parliament and holding a "broad
political conference".
|
June 13
|
Government frees 240 Maoists detained
in various jails across the country.
Deputy Prime Minister Amik Sherchan
says that the Government and Maoists are currently involved in
drawing up an interim statute that could supersede the current
constitution in due course. "We are passing through a phase
where we are working on an interim statute," he says.
|
June 14
|
Addressing party activists at his
residence in Biratnagar, the Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala
says that the King should not be made totally powerless in the
present "sensitive period". He expresses apprehension
that if the King is made powerless, another insurgency can emerge
in Nepal. Maoists organise a protest rally at Rajbiraj in protest
against the Prime Minister's statement.
|
June 15
|
The Government and the Maoists hold
the second round of peace talks in Kathmandu. It is decided to
constitute a 31-member Ceasefire and Code of Conduct National
Monitoring Committee, headed by human rights activist, Dr Devendra
Raj Pandey for the implementation and monitoring of the 12-point
understanding between the SPA and the Maoists and also the 25-point
Ceasefire Code of Conduct.
Speaking to the reporters at his
residence at Biratnagar, Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala
says that all parties including the Nepali Congress have agreed
to give continuity to monarchy. Koirala says, "Not only NC
but the nation has expressed its commitment to give continuity
to monarchy."
Maoist leader Prachanda, in a telephonic
interview to Pokhara FM Radio, says that monarchy in any form
would not be acceptable. He says that in view of the danger of
pro-royal forces mounting a coup, the monarchy should be abolished.
A student abducted by the Maoists
from Ghyangdanda in the Sindhupalchowk district on June 9 found
dead on June 15.
A report titled 'A Decade of Disaster',
prepared by the Community Study and Welfare Centre is released
in Kathmandu. It states that between 1996 and 2005, armed conflict
in Nepal has claimed altogether 13,190 lives, including that of
446 children and 173 teachers. Over 3,850 attacks and counter-attacks
were launched during the period, the report says.
|
June 16
|
The "Summit level talks"
between the ruling SPA and the Maoists concluded in Kathmandu.
Both the sides agree to an eight-point agenda which includes framing
an interim statute, an interim government, declaring the date
for an election to a constituent assembly and dissolving the revived
House of Representatives and the Maoists' People's Governments.
Both the sides also agree to request the United Nations for management
and monitoring of the armed forces of both sides to ensure a free
and fair election to a constituent assembly.
Talking to reporters in Kathmandu,
Maoist leader, Prachanda says that his party would like to see
a new interim constitution and interim government within a month
and elections to be held for the Constituent Assembly by April-May,
next year.
|
June 18
|
Following a Supreme Court order,
the Government releases two former ministers of the royal cabinet,
Kamal Thapa and Tanka Dhakal. The Government had arrested five
ministers of the royal cabinet on charges of conspiring against
the pro-democracy movement. Three other ministers were released
on June 4.
|
June 19
|
Talking to reporters in Pokhara,
the Chairman of the Judicial Investigation Commission, Krishna
Jung Rayamajhi, says that the King could be called to depose before
the Commission if needed.
Himalayan Times reports that
the Maoists made over Rupees 20 million every year by collecting
tax on the trade of yarsagumba in the Darchula district.
In 2005, the Maoists had reportedly collected Rupees 22,000 for
every kilogram of the 9.5 quintals of yarsagumba traded.
|
June 20
|
The Home Minister and coordinator
of the Governments talks team, Krishna Prasad Sitaula, says
that the interim Government will only be formed after the arms
management of both sides.
The Maoists reportedly capture a
house belonging to Hemjung Gurung, central member of the Rashtriya
Prajatantra Party, at Beshisahar in the Lamjung district and set
up an office of the All Nepal National Independent Students
Union- Revolutionary there.
|
June 21
|
The Home Minister and central committee
member of Nepali Congress (NC), Krishna Prasad Sitaula, says that
ceremonial monarchy is not the NC's agenda for the proposed constituent
assembly elections.
|
June 22
|
The Chairman of the Communist Party
of Nepal (Maoist), Prachanda, alleges that a conspiracy is being
hatched to break the eight-point agreement reached between the
Government and the Maoists. Addressing a meeting in Barchhen,
he warns, The royalists and a foreign power want the eight-point
agreement scrapped
Wed like to remind such conspirators
that a decade ago there was a February revolution and now there
would be an October revolution.
The Maoists abducts a former mayor
of the Tansen Municipality, Dhata Nanda Bhattarai, from his house
in Tansen.
|
June 23
|
Speaking to reporters in Dhangadhi,
Maoist chief Prachanda said that the Nepali Army and the Maoist
Army could be united before the election to a constituent assembly.
On budget management, he stated, We are accused of extorting
cash. If we have to discontinue collecting donation, a budget
should be allocated for us also.
In an interview to Himalayan Times
in Kathmandu, the outgoing British Ambassador to Nepal, Keith
George Bloomfield, says that the western world would be unhappy
to see the Maoists in an interim Government until they lay down
their arms permanently. Maoists must keep their weapons
beyond use permanently and demonstrate in action that they are
committed to multiparty democracy, said Bloomfield.
|
June 24
|
The Home Minister and the coordinator
of the Governments talks team, Krishna Prasad Sitaula, rules
out the possibility of the Maoists joining an interim Government
before the management of arms. Speaking in capital Kathmandu,
he said, Maoists will not be brought to interim government
before the weapons are managed. At the moment the government and
the Maoists are in homework on managing the weapons and the armies
Speaking at a function in Kathmandu,
the Maoist leader Ek Raj Bhandari alleged that King Gyanendra
is still playing an active role in the present political scenario
and the Nepal Army seemingly dancing to his tune.
|
June 25
|
The Maoist central leader Matrika
Yadav says that the constituent assembly poll would be boycotted
if citizenship were not granted to the Madhesi people before the
election. Speaking in Rajbiraj, Yadav says, "The first condition
is citizenship, because Madheshi would be disadvantage if citizenship
is not granted them."
|
June 26
|
The Government and the Communist
Party of Nepal (Maoist) formally announce the terms of reference,
jurisdiction and powers of the Code of Conduct and National Ceasefire
Monitoring Committee at a meeting held in Kathmandu. Prof. Birendra
Mishra, former Chief Election Commissioner, is nominated as its
coordinator. The terms of reference and jurisdiction allows the
31-member Committee to look into the compliance of the 25-point
code of conduct. It is also authorised to make suggestions to
both sides about better compliance after conducting investigations
into reports of aberration.
|
June 27
|
A group of about 15 persons lynch
to death two Maoists, Bhagirathi Kurmi and Keshav Bhattarai, at
Hathihawa VDC in the Kapilavastu district.
The United Nations Office of the
High Commission for Human Rights in Nepal raises concern over
the series of abductions and killing of civilians in the central
region of the country allegedly by the Maoists and urged upon
them to stop such acts.
The Maoists returns a house belonging
to a former Lamjung DDC chairman, Hemjung Gurung, in Besishahar,
which they had seized on June 20.
|
June 28
|
The high level judicial commission
constituted to probe into suppression of the people's movement
2006 summon four persons, including former chief of the Royal
Nepalese Army, Satchit Shumsher Rana, former law minister Niranjan
Thapa, former additional inspector general of Armed Police Force
Raviraj Thapa and former additional inspector general of Nepal
Police, Krishna Basnet, to record their statements at the commission's
office in Kathmandu. The commission alleges that Rana and former
Minister Thapa had played a key role to provoke
the King against democracy and the two former police officials
had suppressed people by directly using force during
the movement. The Government following the revival of the House
of Representatives suspended Basnet and Thapa.
Speaking at a function in Kathmandu,
the United States Ambassador to Nepal, James F. Moriarty, says
that the US wont support an interim Government including
the Maoistsunless the latter renounce violence.
The Maoists are reported to have
abducted two persons, Satis Chandra Shukla and Dhruba Prasad Shah,
from Kapilvastu and Siraha respectively.
|
June 29
|
The Public Accounts Committee of
the House of Representatives asks the Government to submit the
property details of King Gyanendra and members of the royal family
within 15 days.
Maoist chief Prachanda proposes that
the Nepali Army and the People's Liberation Army can be put to
a joint command after the formation of an interim Government.
He also proposes that the Prime Minister should be the Chief Commander
of the joint command.
|
July
1 |
Deputy Prime Minister
and Minister for Foreign Affairs, K.P. Sharma Oli, called on the
Maoists to immediately stop arbitrary extortion from general people.
Speaking at a function in Kathmandu, Oli said the act of extorting
money and executing people's court perpetuated by the Maoists
should be immediately stopped, which he said has terrorized people.
Four people are injured
in a clash between Maoists and an anti-Maoist vigilante group,
after a bomb allegedly hurled by the latter, exploded near the
house of a Maoist supporter at Kalabanzar, Gulariya-13.
|
July
2 |
Addressing a function
in Kathmandu, the Maoist central committee member, Gopal Kirat,
warns that they would be forced to revolt again if an election
to a constituent assembly is delayed. "Some reactionary elements
are hatching conspiracy to delay the election to a constituent
assembly. If it is delayed, the people will revolt again," Kirat
said.
|
July
3 |
Maoist chief, Pushpa
Kamal Dahal directs all district committees of the party to stop
running the People’s Courts in major cities, including Kathmandu.
He also ordered the Maoist district committees to accept only
voluntary public donations to the party and not to open new custom
offices in a bid to promote “dialogue, peace and progress.” He
said the Maoists needed voluntary donations for the upkeep of
the militia until the interim constitution and interim government
are formed.
Maoists abducted
the chief of the Rajbiraj customs office, Tirtha Raj Khatiwada
in Saptari district and a farmer in Dhanusha.
|
July
4 |
Government is reported
to have written a letter to the United Nations (UN) seeking the
world body’s role in facilitating arms management and other related
issues in Nepal. UN officials confirmed that the Government handed
over the request letter to UN Acting Resident Co-ordinator, Junko
Sazaki, on July 4.
|
July
5 |
The Judicial Council
led by Chief Justice Dilip Kumar Paudel and its member judges
agree on taking away from the King his power to appoint judges.
Suspected activists
of the Janatantric Terai Mukti Morcha shot dead two Maoist insurgents
in Saptari.
|
July
7 |
Maoists meted out
severe physical punishment to six of the eight locals of Hirminiya
village in the Banke district, who were taken into their ‘custody’
on ‘charges’ of murder and dacoity from Dhaulagiri village in
Bageshwori VDC.
|
July
14 |
Senior Maoist leaders
and political party representatives held talks in Kathmandu, and
agreed to convert the existing House of Representatives into an
interim parliament by inducting more members.
In Sankhuwasabha
district, Maoists are reported to have started collecting "donations"
from government and semi-government officials. The rebels are
visiting each office demanding an amount equal to their 60 days'
salary as "tax for people's war", said a Government official.
|
July
20 |
The Government and
the Maoist talks’ team agreed to defer the ‘summit talks’ between
the seven-party alliance and the Maoist leaders which was scheduled
for July 21 at least for a week. Member of Maoist team, Dina Nath
Sharma, said they were fully prepared for the summit but the seven-party
alliance asked more time to prepare for the meeting.
|
July
22 |
Deputy Prime Minister
K. P. Sharma Oli rules out the possibility of forming an interim
Government until the Maoists’ arms were managed.
|
July
24 |
Maoist Chairman Pushpa
Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda writes to the UN Secretary General
Kofi Annan protesting strongly against certain clauses in the
letter sent by the Government to the world body.
|
July
28 |
Maoists extend the
cease-fire for another three months. A press statement issued
by Prachanda said that they have decided to extend the truce as
per the people’s aspiration for peace.
UN assessment mission
led by Staffan de Mistura meets Maoist leaders Prachanda and Baburam
Bhattarai and members of the Government talks’ team and the Maoists’
team in Kathmandu. The meetings reportedly focused on ‘decommissioning
of arms’.
|
July
29 |
Janatantrik Terai
Mukti Morcha shot at and wounded two Maoist cadres in the Siraha
district.
|
July
31 |
CPN (Maoist) spokesperson
Krishna Bahadur Mahara said the Maoist army will stay within its
camps, under the monitoring of United Nations, until the constituent
assembly elections but there won’t be any decommissioning of their
arms alone before that.
Prime Minister Girija
Prasad Koirala tells the visiting UN mission that Maoist insurgents
would not be included in the interim Government before they are
disarmed and urged the world body to help in the management of
arms of the insurgents.
|
August 1
|
Maoists abducted a CPN-UML member,
Prakash Maharjan, of Kirtipur Municipality 3, on the charge of
tearing a Maoist pamphlet stuck at the door of his private room.
|
August 6
|
A group of Maoists abducted Dipo
Yadav, a Nepali Congress activist, from Barmajhiya in the Dhanusha
district.
|
August 7
|
CPN (Maoist) leader Baburam Bhattarai
said that Prime Minister G. P. Koirala's comments a day earlier
on giving space to the King would hamper the ongoing peace talks.
Addressing a programme in the capital Kathmandu, Bhattarai said,
"If they (government and the parties) breach the peace talks,
if they stick to the old notion of preserving the ‘royal army’
and the king, we will detach ourselves from the peace talks and
continue our struggle right here in the city but peacefully."
|
August 8
|
In a joint statement signed by CPI-Maoist
spokesperson ‘Azad’ and CPN (Maoist) central committee member
‘Satya’, the two outfits claimed that “the Communist Party of
Nepal (Maoist) and the Communist Party of India (Maoist) jointly
re-assert their firm commitment to proletarian internationalism,
mutual fraternal relations, on the basis of MLM.”
|
August 9
|
The Government and Maoists reached
a five-point agreement to seek the assistance of the United Nations
in the entire peace process and create a free and fair atmosphere
for the election to a Constituent Assembly.
|
August 11
|
Chief Maoist negotiator Krishna Bahadur
Mahara stated that his party had agreed to confine its People's
Liberation Army (PLA) to cantonment areas until an election to
a Constituent Assembly but it would not decommission the PLA's
arms, as there was no guarantee that the Nepali Army and the Palace
would accept the people's verdict in favour of a democratic republic.
|
August 13
|
Speaking at a press conference at
Bhadrapur in Jhapa district, CPN (Maoist) Chairman Prachanda accused
Prime Minister Koirala of trying to create differences by advocating
space for a ceremonial King.
|
August 15
|
Maoist insurgents
abducted two Indian citizens from Mahendranagar.
Maoists have stalled
all activities of non-governmental organizations in the Salyan
district, claiming that they are not complying with the "People's
Government."
|
August 16
|
A gun battle occurred
between the Maoists and cadres of the Janatantrik Terai Mukti
Morcha (JTMM) in Itatar VDC of Siraha district on August 16. There
were no reports of casualty on both sides.
|
August 21
|
Dialogue teams of
the Government and the CPN (Maoist) met to discuss the ongoing
peace process. The meeting held at Home Minister Krishna Prasad
Situala’s official residence at Pulchowk, Lalitpur, focused mainly
on the delay in introducing the interim constitution, management
of arms and the proposed visits of the United Nations teams to
Nepal.
|
August 24
|
Over a dozen people
were injured when Maoists attacked a protest rally organised against
them by their former cadres and displaced people in Kalaiya, the
district headquarters of Bara
|
August 25
|
The Interim Constitution
Drafting Committee (ICDC) submitted the draft interim constitution
to the peace negotiating teams of the Government and Maoist insurgents.
In Dailekh, Tilak
Pariyar, ‘chief of the Maoist village government’, attacked Bhupendra
Jung Shahi, a CPN-UML cadre and chairman of the management committee
of a secondary school in Dandaparajul Village Development Committee
(VDC), and injured him.
|
August 26
|
A pregnant woman
of Hardiya-7 in Saptari district died in Maoist custody on August
26, three day after the Maoists took her away.
|
August 28
|
General Secretary
of the CPN-UML, Madhav Kumar Nepal, stated that that elections
to a Constituent Assembly (CA) would be held by mid-June 2007
|
September 1
|
Home Minister and
Coordinator of the Government talks’ team, Krishna Prasad Sitaula,
while addressing a meeting at Biratnagar, said that the constituent
assembly polls could be held after the Maoists keep their weapons
in camps and the United Nations verifies them.
|
September 3
|
Maoist chairman Prachanda
has said the People's Liberation Army (PLA) will not be confined
in cantonments before the state is completely restructured. Speaking
at a function in Kathmandu, Prachanda warned that the Maoists
would start 'urban uprising' if peace talks failed to give a solution.
|
September 4
|
Maoists abducted
three girls of Sanoshree Village Development Committee (VDC) in
the Bardiya district.
Maoists released
a Nepal Army soldier who they had abducted from Itahari on September
3-evening
|
September 6
|
Maoists abducted
five civilians affiliated with the Rolpa Drinking Water Project
|
September 10
|
A Maoist cadre was
killed after tensions escalated into an all out fight between
locals and the Maoists at Theta VDC of Devpur area in Bara district.
|
September 12
|
In eastern Balkot
VDC-2 of Arghakhanchi district on September 11-evening, Maoists
attacked and injured a local Nepali Congress activist, Durga Bhusal,
for not paying ‘donations’ to the outfit.
|
September 13
|
The Maoist leadership
alleged that the Government was ferrying arms and ammunition from
India on September 12-night and in protest organised chakkajam
(ban on vehicular transport) all over the country, including the
capital.
Home Affairs Krishna
Prasad Sitaula told the House of Representatives that only 33
vehicles, including nine Armoured Personnel Carriers, meant for
the peacekeeping troops going to Lebanon were being brought to
Kathmandu
|
September 16
|
Civilians of Dhangadhi
VDC of Siraha district disrupted traffic on Dhangadhi stretch
of the Mahendra Highway for more than five hours morning protesting
against the September 15 assault by Maoists on a local trader.
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September 17
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Prime Minister Girija
Prasad Koirala met Maoist Chairman Prachanda at the residence
of the former at Baluwatar and the two reportedly agreed on holding
high-level talks before the Dashain (Hindu) festival, which begins
on September 23.
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September 18
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Indian police re-arrested senior Maoist leader
C. P. Gajurel, immediately after he was released from the Chennai
central jail in the State of Tamil Nadu in southern India, after
serving a three-year sentence. Indian authorities decided to detain
Gajurel for one more day in view of the West Bengal Government's
request to hand him over to them. Two criminal cases are pending
against Gajurel in the State of West Bengal in eastern India.
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September 20
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Maoist insurgents snatched seven container vans
which were seized by the District Police Office in Dolakha on
September 18-night from Kharidanda on suspicion of bringing tax
evaded goods from the Tatopani transit point. They seized the
vans from Thulopakhar in Sindhupalchowk district while they were
being taken to the Department of Revenue Investigation.
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September 25
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The United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner
for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Nepal publicly released a document
setting out its major concerns regarding human rights abuses committed
by CPN (Maoist) cadres since the cease-fire declaration on April
26.
The ruling SPA decides to hold summit talks with
the Maoists on September 28 to finalize the interim constitution
and immediately start the arms management process.
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September 28
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The scheduled summit talks between the SPA and
CPN (Maoist) outfit is deferred.
A civilian died in Maoist custody due to torture
at Parwanipur in the Birgunj area of Parsa district.
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October 3
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Addressing a training programme for district
level Maoist leaders at Jalbire in the Sindhupalchowk district,
Maoist chairman Prachanda said the insurgents were preparing for
a “new form of people's revolt strong enough to capture Kathmandu
and the state power.” The people’s revolt will be led by local
Newars, he said. He claimed that had the April 2006 uprising not
withdrawn for next five days, Nepal would have already become
a republican state by now.
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October 6
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Three children were killed and five persons were
wounded when a bomb exploded in the Basauti Village Development
Committee area of Kailali district. Reports said that Maoists
used to stay in a jungle near the village.
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October 8
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The second round of talks between the SPA and
CPN-Maoist failed to come up with any decision on crucial issues
like the future of the monarchy, structure of the interim legislature
and modalities of arms management.
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October 10
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The seven-party alliance (SPA) Government and
the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN-Maoist) agree to hold an election
to the Constituent Assembly by the second week of June 2007. The
date for the election would be announced by the interim Government
which will have representation of the Maoists.
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October 15
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Summit talks between the SPA Government and Maoists
were adjourned for an indefinite period after they failed to reach
an agreement. Though a major breakthrough was expected, leaders
of the SPA and Maoists met only for about 15 minutes and adjourned
the talks till "homework" on the details is completed.
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October 17
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Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister K.
P. Sharma Oli said in Jhapa district that Nepal lost the race
of temporary membership of the United Nations Security Council
(UNSC) for the year 2007-08 due to the irresponsible behaviour
of the Maoists and the wrong publicity about Nepal.
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October 18
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At least one Maoist insurgent was killed during
a clash between Maoists and its splinter outfit Jantantrik Terai
Mukti Morcha at Rampurmalhaniya village in the Saptari district.
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October 22
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A civilian, identified as Gopal Rajbansi of Arjundhara
VDC-2 in the Jhapa district, who was in Maoist custody, died mysteriously.
Shiv Raj Gautam, the newly elected president of
the All Nepal Peasants Association (Revolutionary), said that
lands seized by the Maoists would not be returned to their lawful
owners before the political settlement is reached. Speaking in
Chitwan, Gautam revealed that around 50,000 hectares of land are
currently under Maoist control. "They will not be returned before
the political settlement is reached," he said, adding, "Issues
of land are related with issues of politics. Therefore, political
issues must be resolved first."
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October 24
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Five people were injured when an explosive left
behind by the Maoist insurgents exploded at Sardikhola VDC-1 of
the western district of Kaski.
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October 29
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The Maoists extend the ongoing cease-fire by
a further period of three months. Issuing a press statement, Maoist
chairman Prachanda said the extension of cease-fire is aimed at
creating a conducive environment for brining the ongoing talks
to a positive conclusion and announce the date of constituent
assembly elections. Prachanda added that the dialogue between
the SPA Government and his party was “moving positively but no
conclusion has been reached” and expressed hope that the talks
would succeed and the country would soon head towards the constituent
assembly elections -- as per the aspirations of the Nepali people
for peace, democracy and progress and the mandate of the people’s
movement.
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October 30
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The US Ambassador James Francis Moriarty said
that claims made by the Maoists regarding the wide public support
they enjoy are not factual. Talking to a select group of Indian
journalists and intellectuals in the Indian capital New Delhi,
Moriarty said that the Maoists "would get a very few votes if
elections are held in the present context."
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November 2
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A senior Maoist leader has reportedly accused
Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh of delaying the peace
talks in Nepal. According to Rajdhani, Matrika Yadav, chairman
of the Maoists' Madhesi National Liberation Front (MNLF), said
that Indian authorities have brought down pressure upon Prime
Minister Girija Prasad Koirala resulting in the delay in the fruitful
talks. Addressing the first convention of MNLF in Bhairahawa on
November 1, Yadav said, "The key of the talks is in the hands
of Indian PM." Accusing India of frequently interfering in Nepal's
internal affairs, Yadav said, "The capitalists from all over the
world have gathered in New Delhi to make Maoists unsuccessful."
Yadav also accused Prime Minister Koirala as being “a pawn in
the hands of India.”
Chief of the District Land Reform Office in Rautahat,
Madan Krishna Upreti, was injured when some unidentified people
detonated a bomb targeting the office.
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November 4
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Maoist insurgents seized a godown and adjoining
land belonging to the Agriculture Inputs Company at Phidim in
the Panchthar district.
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November 8
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The seven-party alliance (SPA) Government and
the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist at midnight on November 7
reached an agreement to end the decade-old conflict and restore
lasting peace through a six-point agreement. According to the
agreement reached after over 14-hour-long negotiations between
the two sides, the SPA and Maoists agreed that a peace accord
will be signed by November 16 and all the Maoist insurgents will
go to seven cantonment areas by November 21.
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November 9
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Maoists forced school children
at Itahari in eastern Nepal to take part in the victory rally
to celebrate the success of the peace talks.
A bomb, suspected to have been
left by the Maoists, exploded in the remote mountain village of
Aathrai at Tehrathum district in eastern Nepal killing three children.
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November 10
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Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirla
and Maoist chairman Prachanda met at the Prime Minister’s official
residence in Baluwatar and discussed about the implementation
of agreement between the ruling SPA and Maoists.
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November 12
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Maoists abducted four persons,
including a bank manager, from the house of a local, Shyam Shah,
at Haripur-7 in the Sunsari district. According to the Sunsari
district police office, the abducted are the manager of the Simrahi
branch of State Bank of India in Supaul district, Prasanna Kumar
Pandey, and locals Asha Kumari Miya, Maya Sharma and the house
owner.
The insurgents seized 11 kattahs
of land from a poor farmer in Sarlahi at gunpoint and registered
it in the name of a Maoist cadre, Akalesh Mandal. Madan Mandal
Khatwe, the victim was forced to put a thumb impression on the
documents to transfer the ownership of the land in the name of
the Maoist cadre.
A joint inspection team comprising
the representatives of the United Nations, the Government and
the Maoists visited the proposed cantonment site of Kavre and
Sindhuli districts. Nearly 2,500 Maoist combatants will be placed
at the Kamidanda camp.
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November 14
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The high-level Commission formed
to probe the repression of April 2006-Jana Andolan (People's
Movement) found the King as guilty. The Commission led by former
Supreme Court judge Krishna Jung Rayamajhi found around 170 persons,
including the King, then ministers, security officials and regional
administrators as guilty of oppressing the People's Movement.
The Commission's report recommended action against all the guilty
persons. This is the first instance in Nepal’s history that a
commission has found a King guilty.
Maoists looted paddy from the
ancestral house of former chairman of the Raj Parisad Standing
Committee Keshar Jung Rayamajhi in the Nawalparasi district.
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November 15
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During an inspection, the Biratnagar
regional office of the National Human Rights Commission found
the Maoists recruiting youths in Basaha of Udaypur for their People’s
Liberation Army.
Maoists kidnapped more than a
dozen school children from the Sundarpur and Dulari Village Development
Committees of Morang district.
Maoists forced workers of Pokhara’s
hotels, restaurants, furniture workshops and the transport sector
to go with them, saying all the workers would get permanent jobs
and good salaries. Workers, who escaped the Maoist dragnet, alleged
that their colleagues were forced to go with the insurgents.
Maoists threatened journalists
Ambar Khadka and Suman Puri with stringent action if the latter
published any news report about the Maoists’ forceful recruitment
drive.
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November 16
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The signing of the Comprehensive
National Peace Treaty between the Government and the Communist
Party of Nepal-Maoist was postponed due to "lack of time."
The two sides were scheduled to sign the Treaty on November 16
as agreed on November 8.
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November 17
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Prime Minister G. P. Koirala warned
the Maoists to stop military recruitment and abduction of children
saying it would be counter productive to the peace process. Talking
to the media at his hometown Biratnagar, Koirala said the Maoists
must stop forceful recruitment and abduction immediately to ease
the peace process. He said if such activities are not stopped,
it would have negative impact on the whole peace process.
Maoists set up a camp on the construction
site of the Buddhist University in Lumbini and around 200 youth
recruits, who were drafted in the People’s Liberation Army, are
being trained there. A teacher at the Sainamaina Secondary School
Ranibagiya, Bhairahawa, Umananda Chalise, said students were taken
from their homes without officially informing the school.
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November 18
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Maoist chairman Prachanda, addressing
a press conference in New Delhi, denied any working relations
between Nepali Maoists and Indian left-wing extremists (known
as Naxalites). Terming the "red corridor between Pashupti to Tirupati"
as a myth created by "religious fundamentalists," Prachanda said
that his outfit only had "some ideological relations" with the
Indian Naxalites.
Maoists abducted tenth grader
Jenish Chaudhari, his brother, Bikal Chaudhari, Jitendra Ram and
Anusa Rai of Janata Secondary School. They were lured with promises
of an attractive salary after joining the People’s Liberation
Army.
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November 19
|
A meeting of the joint team of
the government, Maoists and the United Nations settled five cantonment
sites whereas they have decided to relocate the other two. After
inspecting the proposed sites in Ilam, Sindhuli, Kavre, Palpa,
Rolpa, Kailali and Surkhet districts, the team has finalized the
sites in five districts except those in Kavre and Palpa.
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November 20
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Maoist insurgents abducted more
than 100 children and youths from different places in Sunsari
to recruit them in the People’s Liberation Army. Maoists reportedly
abducted eight children from Inaruwa-8.
Representatives of the Sunsari-based
15 Child Clubs staged a protest before the Inaruwa-based Maoists’
district contact office, demanding a halt to child conscription.
The US embassy in Kathmandu denounced
the recruitment of people, including children, in the armed ranks
of the Maoists. "Such action violates all human rights norms
and directly contravenes the spirit and letter of agreements the
insurgents signed with the government," a statement issued
by the embassy said.
The High Level Probe Commission,
formed some six months ago to investigate the atrocities committed
during the April movement, submitted its report to Prime Minister
Girija Prasad Koirala at his official residence in Kathmandu.
The 1184-page report has indicted 202 high-ranking officials of
the King's Government and recommended action against many. Though
the report has also implicated King Gyanendra, a Commission source
said, it has shied away from recommending action against him.
Disagreeing with the report, two commissioners refused to sign
it.
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November 21
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Prime Minister Koirala and Maoist
chairman Prachanda signed the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA)
2006, bringing the decade-long armed insurgency to an end and
promising to chart a new destiny for "peaceful and democratic"
new Nepal. Inclusive of provisions on human rights, civil and
political rights, arms and army management, socio-economic transformation,
among others, the ten-point CPA was signed in the presence of
ministers, political party leaders, Maoist leaders, foreign diplomats,
law-makers, government officials and media representatives. "Beginning
today, the politics of killing, violence and terror will be replaced
by the politics of reconciliation," declared Koirala. Prachanda
stated that with the signing of the CPA, people of Nepal were
in a position to give message to the entire world. "The continuity
of 238-year-old tradition has been broken now. This is the victory
of Nepalese people and the loss of regressive elements," he claimed.
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November 22
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King Gyanendra welcomed the peace
agreement signed between the government and the Maoists on November
21.
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November 24
|
A Maoist resistance group in Nawalparasi
burnt and destroyed about a dozen arms saying they would lay down
their weapons after the peace agreement between the government
and the Maoists. The group led by Munna Khan burnt about a dozen
arms that included eight guns, one khukuri, one spear and one
sickle outside the local Jagriti Higher Secondary School at Pasauni
VDC in the Nawalparasi district in the presence of representatives
of National Human Rights Commission, the seven political parties,
Maoists, human rights activists, journalists and others.
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November 26
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Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai
accused the government of dilly-dallying in the promulgation of
interim constitution, formation of interim parliament and interim
cabinet. He also accused that the government was not forthcoming
to talk on this issue even though the November 8 timeline had
fixed November 26 as the date for promulgating interim constitution.
Thousands of students from 22
schools in the Sunsari district were deprived from appearing in
their second term examinations that commenced from November 26
due to the Maoist affiliated student union, All Nepal National
Independent Student Union-Revolutionary, padlocking the examination
centre. The students found a notice pasted on the gate of Saraswoti
Higher Secondary School in Duhabi telling them to go back.
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November 27
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The Maoists tortured three civilians
in Sunsari. Insurgents reportedly broke the leg of a rickshaw-puller
and wounded a Jana Morcha cadre. They also abducted and tortured
a student, Arjun Giri, a student of City College in Biratnagar,
before releasing him.
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November 28
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After five days of deliberations,
the government and the Maoists signed a deal on management of
arms and armies. Coordinator of the government’s talks’ team,
Home Minister Krishna Prasad Situala, and Maoist chief negotiator,
Krishna Prasad Mahara, signed the ‘Agreement on Monitoring of
the Management of Arms and Armies’ amidst a press conference in
the capital Kathmandu. A meeting of the representatives of the
government, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and United Nations
finalised the modalities of management of arms and armies and
the monitoring process. The Agreement said the People’s Liberation
Army men would be allowed to conduct light military drillings
inside the camps without using of heavy fireworks, while the Nepal
Army would be allowed to conduct its regular military exercises.
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November 30
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The Government of West Bengal
in India released senior Nepali Maoist leaders Chandra Prakash
Gajurel and Mohan Baidhya after a court in Jalpaiguri ordered
their release. The court ordered their release after the West
Bengal government withdrew all charges against them.
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December 1
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The United Nations Security Council
(UNSC) unanimously adopted UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's proposal
to respond 'immediately and concretely' to the requests made by
Nepal to assist in her nascent peace process.
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December 4
|
The Maoist Victims Association
(MVA) staged a rally in Kathmandu demanding that they be represented
in the soon-to-be-formed interim parliament. The MVA also demanded
that the government fulfil the 10-point demands that it had submitted
recently. Their demands include rehabilitation, compensation and
action against culprits.
Maoists brought development activities
in the Village Development Committees (VDCs) of Kavre district
to a standstill after they objected to the release of the first
quarterly budget for the current fiscal year. The budget was supposed
to be released by mid-November by the VDC council. However, the
council has not been able to hold a meeting so far due to disagreement
on part of the Maoists, a VDC secretary said.
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December 6
|
Maoist cadres, violating their
commitments to allow the political parties to freely organize
their activities in villages, kept a team of political leaders
and human rights activists in confinement for four hours in Sukadeva
of Hekuli Village District Council (VDC) of Dang district.
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December 7
|
The Maoists, violating cease-fire
agreements, are reportedly involved in extortion and violent activities
in different parts of the country, according to Nepal News.
Insurgents reportedly demanded 30 percent of the income from the
Gadedhunga Community Forest Users' Group in the Aankhibhui Village
Development Committee (VDC) area of Gulmi district as ‘tax’ to
their local government.
Maoists announced their decision
to revive their ‘people’s government’ in the eastern district
of Sankhuwasabha.
The General Secretary of Communist
Party of Nepal (Unity Centre-Masal), Mohan Bikram Singh, said
that the party would remain underground till the restoration of
full fledged democracy in the country.
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December 8
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Maoist chief Prachanda reportedly
said that he is willing to become the President of a future Nepal
Republic. "If the masses want to give me the responsibility
and if my party chooses me as the best candidate for president,
then I will have to take it," said Prachanda.
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December 10
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Victims of the Maoist atrocities
are preparing to launch an armed struggle as they see no change
in the attitude of the Government in dealing with their problems
even after the Jana Andolan (people’s movement). Dharma
Raj Neupane, the president of the Association of Victims of Maoist
Atrocities, said, "We are left with no option but to launch an
organised armed struggle for justice."
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December 11
|
Maoist spokesperson Krishna Bahadur
Mahara warned to resume the revolt if the political situation
does not progress. He said, "If political change is not ascertained,
the Maoists will be forced to revolt again." Mahara blamed
the government for delaying in holding election to the constituent
assembly and said that "The election to the constituent assembly
will not be held by mid-June 2007 if the date for the same is
not announced within mid-December."
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December 13
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A report published by the National
Human Rights Commission informed that 11 persons were killed by
the Government's security forces (SFs) and 15 by the Maoist insurgents
since April 26, 2006, when the cease-fire was declared. It stated
that resistance groups killed five people and villagers or unidentified
groups killed seven persons while five people were killed in accidental
explosions.
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December 14
|
Prime Minister Koirala, the Personal
Representative of the United Nations Secretary General, Ian Martin,
and Maoist Chairman Prachanda held a meeting at the Prime Minister’s
residence at Baluwatar and agreed to begin the verification process
of the Maoist arms and armies as soon as possible.
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December 15
|
The leaders of the Seven Party
Alliance and Maoists put their signature on the interim constitution.
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December 17
|
Maoists took six teenager boys
and girls from the Arnama Village Development Committee (VDC)
area in Siraha district, to recruit them in the People’s Liberation
Army for NR 3600 monthly and rations worth NR 1400 per month.
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December 18
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Six Maoists and two security force
personnel were injured when Maoists clashed with the police near
the unified security base camp at Gaushala VDC area in the Mahottari
district.
Maoists’ Chairman Prachanda said
the Government has, by naming the ambassadors to 14 diplomatic
missions, violated the agreements signed with his party in the
recent past.
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December 19
|
Maoists called a strike (bandh)
and staged demonstrations against the Government's decision to
nominate ambassadors and members of the National Human Rights
Commission (NHRC). Thousands of People’s Liberation Army men,
carrying arms, came out of the camps and staged demonstrations
against the Government.
A group of 50 Maoists seized the
belongings of police officials stationed at a newly restored Ilaka
Police Post at Dhanauli in the Banke district and looted food
grains, cloth and NR 10,000 in cash.
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December 20
|
In Chitwan, over 1000 Maoists
barged into the Rampur Agriculture Campus and thrashed Nepal Students’
Union (NSU) activists injuring 49 of them. The Maoists entered
into the campus following some differences between NSU and activists
of pro-Maoist student union.
Over two dozen people - including
policemen and ordinary people - sustained injuries after around
300 combatants of the Maoist's PLA from a satellite camp attacked
an all-party meeting at Katari Bazar in Udaypur district.
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December 21
|
Maoists forced district authorities
in Phidim to remove the police posts re-established in rural areas
of the district.
Government and Maoists agree to
recruit 111 Gorkha soldiers having served with the British and
the Indian Armies to serve as temporary watchdogs for peace in
the country.
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December 22
|
A joint inspection team comprising
United Nations (UN) representatives, Government officials and
Maoist deputy military commanders inspected the PLA camps in Ilam
and Sindhuli districts to determine the sites for arms storage.
In Banke, Maoists seized all documents
of the Khajurakhurd VDC.
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December 26
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Ten persons, including Maoists,
policemen and locals, were injured at Gulariya in Krishnanagar
after Maoists tried to remove the re-established police post.
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December 27
|
Government and Maoists formed
a six-member joint team to select 111 ex-Gurkha soldiers to monitor
the management of arms and armies. The team includes three members
from the Nepali Army - Brigadier General Shiva Ram Pradhan, Ganesh
Bhandari and Subarna Mahat - and three Maoist commanders, Pasang,
Prabhakar and Baldev. A review committee including Ramesh Lekhak,
a member of the Government talks’ team, and Dev Gurung, a member
of the Maoist talks’ team, was also formed to review the decision
of the selection committee.
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December 29
|
Five police personnel were injured
in a Maoist attack on unarmed police personnel at a recently re-established
Area Police Office of Rajahar in the Nawalparasi district.
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December 31
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Maoists padlocked municipality
offices of Damak, Bhadrapur and Mechinagar, and VDC offices of
Korobari and Juropani in Jhapa district.
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