January 1
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Maoists padlocked the Village
Development Committee (VDC) offices of Dharampur and Topgachhi
in the Jhapa district.
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January 2
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The US Ambassador to Nepal, James F. Moriarty,
said that the US Government would not remove the terrorist tag
on the Nepali Maoists,
as the Maoists had not yet proved that they have given up violence.
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January 3
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Maoists, reportedly, are extracting
‘taxes’ in construction materials supply, rural roads and other
internal resources of the Kaski District Development Committee
(DDC).
Around 11 of the United Nations
arms monitors arrived in Nepal to initiate the process of monitoring
of management of arms and armies from January 7.
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January 4
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Dissident members of the Communist
Party of Nepal – Maoist-Leninist (CPN-ML), led by a party member
Raj Bantawa, organised the Party's Third National Convention,
bringing the Party on the verge of split.
The Joint Monitoring Coordination
Committee (JMCC) of the Agreement on Management and the Monitoring
of Arms and Armies selected Bhim Bahadur Gurung as Commander and
Karna Bahadur Pradhan as the Deputy-commander of the 111 British
and Indian ex-servicemen.
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January 5
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Maoists chief Prachanda said his
Party would organise street protests if the Government fails to
issue a provisional constitution in the next eight days to pave
way for them to join an interim cabinet.
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January 7
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A meeting of the Maoists' Ilam
District Committee decided to give the VDC Secretaries limited
assignments like distributing the citizenship certificates and
updating the voters' lists.
Chandra Prakash Mainali, General
Secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal - Marxist Leninist (CPN-ML)
was ousted from the ordinary membership of the Party by a dissident
faction led by Rishi Kattel in a separate Third National Convention.
Kattel was elected by the dissident faction as the new General
Secretary.
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January 8
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Top leaders of the ruling Seven
Party Alliance (SPA) and the CPN-M agreed to promulgate the interim
constitution and form the interim legislature on January 15, formally
opening the doors for Maoists to join the political mainstream.
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January 9
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Six women cadres of People’s Liberation
Army (PLA) reportedly fled from the outfit’s Chulachuli-based
headquarters in Ilam district on January 8-9 due to hard routine
in the camp, irregularities in getting salary and inappropriate
management of the camps.
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January 10
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Maoists turned back police personnel
from different villages of the Rukum and Humla districts. Maoists
also involved locals to turn back police personnel from the area
Police Posts at Bafikot and Simli in the Rukum district. They
also obstructed the way of the police personnel to the Police
Post at Jagtipur in the Jajarkot district.
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January 11
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Maoists continued to collect NR
100 as 'taxes' from tourists who come to the Annapurna region,
considered one of the best trekking routes in the world.
Maoists threw away all preparatory
goods and articles belonging to the Police Posts at Bhotechaur
VDC in the Dang district and Chautara in the Sindhupalchowk district
and pressurised the police personnel to turn back from the village.
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January 12
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Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula
said that the Maoists’ arms would be locked up in containers by
January 29.
Two reinstated police posts at
Khairi Chandanpur in Rajapura and another in Baniyabhara of Bardiya
districts were displaced after Maoists attacked them.
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January 13
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Maoists assaulted and subsequently
abducted two persons, Devendra Mishra and his son Manish, in the
Kapilvastu district.
Maoists padlocked the house of
Sher Bahadur Poudel, a Schoolteacher at Phalidang Primary of Deurali
Village Development Committee of Bhojpur district, after he refused
to give them an amount equal to his 12 day's salary.
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January 14
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Maoists padlocked the office of
Khandbari micro-hydropower project in Sankhuwasabha district,
jointly run by the Madi, Barun and Sankhuwasabha campuses, as
the campuses refused to pay 25 percent of the total profit of
the project to the Maoists.
A meeting of the Council of Ministers
approved the draft interim constitution, which will be tabled
in the Parliament on January 15 for promulgation.
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January 15
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All 83 Maoist representatives,
along with other Members of Parliament, were sworn in marking
their entry in to the Parliament. The first sitting of the Parliament
unanimously endorsed the Interim Constitution, which replaced
the Constitution of 1990.
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January 16
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A Police team was stopped at Lunkhudeurali
area and another at Kurgha Village Development Committee by the
Maoists when they were heading for the inner hinterlands of the
Parbat district to provide security to Government teams distributing
citizenship certificates.
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January 18
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The Communist Party of Nepal –
Maoist (CPN-M) elected Krishna Bahadur Mahara as the leader of
the Party in the interim legislature. Dev Gurung was elected as
the deputy leader in the Parliament while Dina Nath Sharma and
Janardan Sharma were elected as Chief Whip and Whip, respectively.
Maoists decided to dissolve all
of their people's government, people's courts and communes across
the country.
A special meeting of the Council
of Ministers decided to release additional NR 70 million for the
management of seven main cantonment sites and 21 sub-camps of
the Maoists.
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January 19
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An activist of the Madhesi Janaadhikar
Forum (MJF) of Siraha district was shot dead by the Maoists in
a clash that led to firing. The clash occurred when the MJF activists
tried to stop two mini-buses, in which Maoists were traveling,
ignoring the bandh (strike) called by the MJF.
United States (US) ambassador
to Nepal, James F Moriarty, reiterated the US Government’s position
that the Maoists should not be inducted in the interim cabinet
before the process of arms management is completed in a credible
manner.
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January 20
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Three police personnel were injured
when a group of around 500 Maoists stormed the Area Police Post
at Patbhar in the Bardiya district and chased them away.
Activists of the Maoist-affiliated
Nepal Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Association in Kavre called
200 hotel workers out of their offices and padlocked nine hotels
and resorts in Dhulikhel for an indefinite period, accusing the
management of hotels of not providing basic facilities to workers.
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January 21
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Notwithstanding Party chairman
Prachanda's directives to dissolve all Maoist people's court and
government, a Maoist kangaroo court in Kailali slapped NR 115,000
fine to a local person.
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January 23
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The registration process of Maoist
insurgents was temporarily halted in the Chitwan district after
the United Nations (UN) team refused to register some combatants
owing to their apparent underage and physical structure. The UN
team refused to register those Maoists who seemed to be in age
bracket of 12 to 15 – but the team was pressurised to register
them as 18 year olds.
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January 26
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A group of Maoists abducted three
locals, identified as Purna Bahadur Oli, Mok Bahadur Oli and Durga
Bahdur Oli, from their residences in the Dhakeri Village Development
Committee area in the Banke district.
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January 28
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The United Nations arms monitoring
team completed the registration of all Maoist arms and troops
at the cantonment site at Shaktikhor in the Chitwan district,
and handed over the keys of the arms containers to the Maoists.
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February 7
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Maoist leader Prachanda called
for the immediate abolition of the country's monarchy, accusing
King Gyanendra of trying to undermine a peace deal that threatens
his throne. Prachanda told AFP, "He has not got enough
power to control the country again, but he has the power to create
problems."
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February 9
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Maoist cadres decamped with the
voters’ lists and other documents from the Kavre VDC area of Dolakha
district. Maoists forced the officials to enlist their cadres’
names, who were from other districts.
Maoists seized all voters' list
documents from the Salyantar VDC area of Dhading district protesting
that they were not included in the voters' list collection task.
The Kathmandu-based Industrial
Security Group (ISG) – which comprises of representatives of the
Embassies of France, Germany, India, the United Kingdom, the United
States of America, and the Delegation of the European Commission,
along with their bilateral Chambers of Commerce – urged the Maoists
to cease violence, abductions and extortion.
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February 10
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Maoist insurgents attacked leaders
of Rashtriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) and foiled their programme
being held at Besisahar in the Lamjung district. Following the
attack, 20 RPP workers, including Hemjung Gurung, the President
of RPP-Lamjung, were injured.
Maoists abducted some school students
and took them towards the district headquarters in Dhadingbesi
to make them participate in the Maoist's central level meeting
at Kathmandu on February 13.
Students of the All Nepal National
Independent Student Union-Revolutionary (ANNISU-R) vandalised
a statue of the late King Mahendra at Mahendranagar Chowk in the
Kanchanpur district.
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February 12
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The citizenship certificate distribution
team deployed in the Siddharthanagar municipality of Rupandehi
district halted their work following interference by the Maoists.
The team members said that the insurgents threatened them to work
as per their order, and pressurised them to immediately distribute
certificates to persons with recommendation from their party cadres.
Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat
said that the Government has no knowledge of how the Maoists are
spending money released by the Government. Mahat revealed that
the Government has released NR 350 million to the Maoists at various
intervals for ration, logistic and other needs of the People’s
Liberation Army personnel, adding, "But, the Maoists have not
submitted the details of expenses incurred so far from the fund."
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February 16
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Media reports indicate that Maoists
have been collecting money at Kabeli, Ranke and other places in
Panchthar district demanding NR 1000 each from the drivers of
buses, trucks and other heavy vehicles and NR 500 from each taxi
driver.
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February 18
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Maoists abducted family members
of a civilian identified as Nanibabu Karki, from his residence
in the Bouddh area of Kathmandu district.
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February 19
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Three persons, including two Maoists,
were injured in a clash between locals and Maoists over the issue
of distribution of citizenship certificates in the Khanar area
of Sunsari district.
Maoists captured a house of Dhirendra
Shah, one of the royal family members at Nepalgunj in the Banke
district saying that the ruling SPA and their party have agreed
to nationalise the properties of royal family.
Maoists declared that they have
plans to collect NPR three million from district dwellers of Nawalparasi
within five days.
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February 21
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Nearly 3,000 Maoist cadres in
the Third Division of the PLA based in Shaktihkor in Chitwan district,
left their cantonment as they did not have basic facilities including
food and pure drinking water in the camp.
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February 22
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At least 900 PLA cadres under
the third division kept at Shaktikhor in Chitwan district left
the cantonment.
A United Nations (UN) report has
documented the recruitment of 155 children in all five regions
of Nepal by the Maoists after the ceasefire was declared in April
2006. According to the report, 40 per cent of them were girls
and most of those children were enrolled in schools at the time
of their recruitment.
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February 23
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At least 15 persons were injured
in a clash between the Maoists and MJF activists at Bhairahawa
in the Rupandehi district. The injured include four Maoists, three
MJF activists, two policemen and six civilians.
Six persons were injured in a
clash between Maoists and the activists of the Jay Krishna Goit-led
Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha (JTMM) when the Maoists tried to
open shops at Sarmujawa bazaar in the Rautahat district.
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February 25
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Ten persons — six Maoist cadres
and four civilians — were injured in a clash between Maoists and
civilian population at Belauri Bazaar of Shreepur VDC in Kanchanpur
district.
Government agreed to provide NR
50 million for the management of Maoist cantonments along with
a daily allowance of NR 60 to each PLA combatant.
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February 26
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An activist of MJF, identified
as Jille Ram Yadav, who was injured during a clash with Maoist
cadres near Khairapur in Bardiya district on February 25, succumbed
to his injury.
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February 27
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Two MJF activists identified as
Koili Kori and Khohade Kori, who were inured in the clash with
the Maoists at Puraini VDC area in the Banke district succumbed
to their injuries.
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February 28
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Media reports indicate that Maoists
are involved in collecting donations from shop owners, industrialists
and vehicles plying on different road sections of the Mahendra
highway for their mass meeting to be organised in Dhangadhi on
March 2.
Two MJF activists were injured
in a scuffle with Maoists at Gulariya in the Bardiya district.
A group of around 100 armed men
calling themselves members of ‘Madhesi Tigers’ abducted 11 persons
from Koshi Tapu area near Bharadawa in Saptari district.
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March 1 |
Maoists cadres entered into the
Gaighat bazaar, district headquarter of Udaypur district with
sophisticated weapons including AK-47 rifles, SLR, INSAS and Short
Machine Guns.
In Parbat district, a member of
the PLA Him Lal Puri was arrested with a gun and two bullets of
SLR but later released following pressure from Maoists.
Maoists in Bansar VDC of the Lamjung
district assaulted NC leaders and activists after the latter reached
the village with their party's public awareness campaign.
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March 4
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Four civilians were injured when
three Maoists opened fire inside a civilian residence in Pipra
Paschim-2 of Saptari district.
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March 5
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An armed group of Maoists abducted
five local residents from Durgapur Bazaar in Ghailadubba VDC of
Jhapa district and kept them in confinement at an unspecified
place, saying they needed to question them.
International Narcotics Control
Strategy Report (INCSR) 2007, prepared by the US State Department,
has indicated that the Maoists are involved in smuggling of narcotic
drugs. The report released on March 5 said, "Nepal's NDCLEU (Narcotic
Drug Control Law Enforcement Unit) reports that Maoists have called
upon farmers in certain areas to increase cannabis production
and have levied Rs 200 per kilogram (approximately $2.75) tax
on cannabis production."
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March 8
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CPN-M Chairman Prachanda expressed
his commitment to return public property seized by the Maoists
during the conflict. He also promised to help those families displaced
during their people's war return to their homelands in order to
ensure that the Constituent Assembly elections are held by mid-June.
The Nepali Congress issued a strong
appeal to the Government stating that the Maoists should not be
included in the interim government unless they fully implement
all the previous understandings and agreements, give up violence,
extortion, abduction and return the property they had seized during
the decade-long conflict.
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March 10
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US Under Secretary of State for
Management Henrietta H. Fore said that if the Maoists fail to
act like a mainstream political party "by renouncing violence,"
then the US believes that Maoists do not deserve membership in
a coalition Government.
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March 11
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CPN-M Dailekh area in-charge set
off a hand bomb in retaliation against an attack on the Maoists
by local youths. Maoists claimed that an inebriated group of local
youths assaulted the Maoist cadres at Doragaun, in Bhairikalithum-9
of Dailekh district in reply to which the Maoists exploded the
bomb in "self-defence".
Cadres of the JTMM-Jwala Singh
and Maoists had a shoot-out between them inside a bus at Satterjhoda
in Sunsari district. The passenger bus, in which the Maoists were
travelling, was totally devastated after it was torched by the
JTMM cadres. Some Maoist cadres were kept in detention and their
weapons were seized by the JTMM cadres.
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March 12
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A Maoist cadre, identified as
Hari Basnet, the Prakashpur area in-charge, died in a clash between
MJF activists and the Maoists during curfew-time at Inaruwa in
the Sunsari district.
At least 35 persons were injured
in a clash between students and the MJF activists in Inaruwa.
MJF cadres vandalised 23 vehicles at Laukahi, injuring seven transport
workers.
Himalayan Times reported
that Maoists prevented Secretaries from carrying out their daily
work in most of the VDCs in Bardiya district. VDC Secretaries
are not allowed to do any other works than distributing citizenship
certificates and collecting voters’ lists.
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March 13
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In his party's mass gathering
in Baglung, Prachanda said that thousands of his Party's combatants
and weapons are still outside the cantonments as they "couldn't
meet United Nations standards" to be registered. He also disclosed
that they still had "technical human resources" outside the cantonments
who have the ability to launch "massive attacks" simultaneously
at several places on a single night.
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March 14
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Maoist cadres seized 13 trucks
of the Nepali Army for two and half hours in the Rajahar area
of Nawalparasi district on the suspicion that they were carrying
weapons which is against the cease-fire code of conduct.
In a press meet organised at Shaktikhor
in Chitwan district, Maoists informed that out of the 706 registered
weapons, 616 were in the containers, while 75 were being used
for camp security and 15 more for the security detail of the camp
leadership.
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March 16
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Stating that the Government made
decisions to form a panel to fix constituencies for the Constituent
Assembly polls and promote and transfer security officials without
their consent, Maoist Members of Parliament demanded that the
decisions be nullified.
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March 17
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The pro-Maoist Young Communist
League (YCL) cadres abducted a civilian, identified as Suresh
Malla, in Kavre district, and took him to an unknown location.
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March 18
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Maoists abducted the operator
of Hotel Woodland of Durbarmarg, Hari Shrestha, from his hotel
in Kathmandu and assaulted him after he refused to give NR two
million as demanded by the insurgents. Maoists released him after
making an agreement paper, which states that Shrestha will pay
NR 10 million to the Maoists and will also provide 10 rooms free
of cost for them.
Five Maoists, including one of
their lawmakers and a ‘platoon commander’, were arrested by the
Nepalese Army on March 18 for entering into the Bardiya National
Park with illegal arms and without permission.
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March 19
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YCL cadres led by Gorkha ‘district
Secretary’ Chuda Khadka aka Prakash, captured 25 ropanis
of land and four houses of former Army Chief Sachchit Shumsher
Rana at Laxmibazaar in the Gorkha district, and hoisted their
party flag there.
Prachanda said that the nation
could fall in a big disaster if Constituent Assembly election
is not held on time.
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March 21
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At least 28 persons, including
five women, were killed and over 40 persons injured at Gaur in
the Rautahat district when Maoists and MJF activists clashed with
each other.
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March 22
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Thousands of PLA soldiers moved
out of the camps in Chulachuli, Chitwan, Surkhet Jhapa Nawalparasi,
Rupandehi, Kailali districts in protest against the murder of
their party cadres by the MJF.
Prachanda demanded that the Government
outlaw the MJF. He termed it as a criminal gang.
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March 26
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Two bombs exploded at the premises
of the Parsa district office of CPN-UML at Pannabagh in Kalaiya-5.
A person claiming to be a leader of Nepal Defence Army claimed
responsibility for the blasts.
Maoists said that there will be
Jana Andolan (People’s Movement) III if the Interim Government
was not formed within March 30.
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March 28
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A group of suspected Maoists killed
Madhav Prasad Verma, a former VDC chairman in the mid-western
Terai district of Banke. They also looted property worth around
NR 200,000 from Verma's house.
Three persons were injured in
a clash between Maoists and the activists of MJF at Barewa in
the Rupandehi district.
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March 30
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A meeting of the eight political
parties reached an agreement to share ministerial portfolios in
the Interim Government. The Nepali Congress retained the post
of the Prime Minister. The Maoists secured the portfolios of Information
and Communication, Local Development, Physical Planning and Works,
Forest and Soil Conservation and Women, Children and Social Welfare
ministries in the new cabinet.
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April 1
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An Interim Government, including
the Maoists, was formed with Nepali Congress leader Girija Prasad
Koirala as the Prime Minister. The five Maoists who were sworn
in as cabinet ministers are Krishna Bahadur Mahara, Dev Gurung,
Matrika Yadav, Hisila Yami and Khadga Bahadur Biswokarma.
Leaders of the eight parties agreed
to hold the CA polls on June 20.
A group of 12 unidentified assailants
shot dead Kripa Thakur, an area committee member of the CPN-M
at Inarwa VDC of the Rautahat district.
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April 2
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One Maoist, identified as Abischa,
was killed in a clash between Maoists and members of various other
political parties in Kalikot.
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April 3
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Hundreds of the YCL cadres staged
a protest rally in Kathmandu demanding that the Government declare
a republic.
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April 4
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One Maoist, identified as Shambhu
Sharma, and another from the MJF, identified as Birendra Mandal,
were injured in a clash between the Maoists and the MJF activists
in Ramgunj Belgachhiya of the Sunsari district.
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April 6
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Members of the Maoist-affiliated
trade union (All Nepal Communication, Press and Publication Workers
Association) padlocked the offices of The Himalayan Times
and Annapurna Post in Kathmandu as three of the employees
were transferred to the head office to undergo training before
a decision was taken on promoting one or more of them.
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April 8
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Maoists captured the Kavrebhanjyang-based
office of the Kavre VDC in the Kavrepalanchowk district and set-up
their party office there.
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April 10
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CPN-M was registered as a political
party at the Election Commission. Baburam Bhattarai said, "We
have submitted our application for recognition as a political
party at the Election Commission. Our party's official name will
be Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists)."
Cadres of the YCL and pro-Maoist
union activists in Biratnagar assaulted a leading businessman
identified as Shyam Sundar Sharda accusing him of framing an abduction
of his driver who happens to be a member of pro-Maoist workers’
union.
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April 11
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The Maoists grabbed four bighas
of land belonging to three locals of Barah Kshetra area in the
Sunsari district.
Entrepreneurs based along the
Morang-Sunsari corridor took to the streets on against the Maoists,
charging that the Maoists continued their excesses against the
business community despite joining the Government.
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April 13
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At least 50 persons were injured
when Maoists and locals clashed at Betali VDC in the Ramechhap
district. The clash occurred when locals were protesting against
the Maoist assault on a youth, Prakash Karki, from Betali VDC-6
on April 10 and hoisted black flags against them at different
places.
CPN-M reopened its United Revolutionary
People's Council (URPC) offices - which served as the ‘Maoist
government offices’ in its insurgency days in the Lekhnath Municipality
of Kaski district.
The United Nations Mission in
Nepal completed its process of registration and storage of Nepal
Army weapons at the Chhauni Barracks in Kathmandu.
The Election Commission said it
was not possible to hold the elections by June 20. Chief Election
Commissioner Bhoj Raj Pokhrel said a number of "technical processes"
were yet to be completed and that the time left was too inadequate
to complete necessary preparations before the polls could be held.
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April 14
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At least seven persons, including
five Maoists, were injured when a group of locals clashed with
the Maoist insurgents at Lebat in the Makawanpur district.
In Bardiya, Maoists threatened
to kill a civilian Mukti Bahadur Swar of Gola village if he returns
home.
Maoist chief Prachanda said that
only the outright declaration of republic can save the eight party
unity. He said that other seven parties should agree to its position
of going for republic – instead of waiting till Constituent Assembly
polls as agreed earlier.
A large number of PLA cadres came
out of their cantonment sites in Chitwan, Nawalparasi and Sindhuli
districts and staged protests against the announcement of the
Election Commission that Constituent Assembly polls were not possible
within the June-20 deadline.
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April 15
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Police arrested three Maoists
and confiscated NR 3000 in cash and letter pads from them while
they were collecting money at Dimuwa along the Pokhara-Baglung
highway.
Maoists disallowed a Police team
to establish their post at Thulipokhari in the Parbat district.
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April 17
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A Police Post located at Ragechaur
in the Salyan district was shifted to the area Police Post at
Tharmare due to the Maoist threat.
Maoists destroyed the building
of Chandra Jyoti School at Ramnagar in the Siraha district and
also took the construction materials away.
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April 18
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The Government and Maoists reached
an agreement to bring down the number of Maoist insurgents put
up in the cantonments that house some 30,000 PLA combatants. A
meeting of the cabinet-formed Cantonment Management Committee
decided to decrease the number of the PLA from 30,000 to 17,000
and also bring down the number of PLA camps to seven.
The Maoist-affiliated Nepal Transport
Workers' Union called for a day-long transport strike at Biratnagar
in the Morang district demanding the unconditional release of
arrested drivers, security for the drivers and the reinstatement
of sacked workers.
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April 20
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Police arrested seven YCL cadres
from Kappan area in Kathmandu after intruded into the residence
of a woman, identified as Tungsang Lama, and were attempting to
rob her valuables.
Maoists threatened a police team
which had gone to Dhampus in the Kaski district to reconstruct
the police station and ordered them to leave the village immediately.
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April 22
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Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala
expressed commitment that the property seized during the decade-long
Maoist insurgency would be returned to the people.
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April 24
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The United States Ambassador to
Nepal, James Moriarty, said that the US would keep treating the
Maoists as terrorists as they see no evidence of the Maoists stopping
violence and extortion.
Prachanda said that he feels the
seven parties had agreed in haste last year to end the people's
movement. Addressing a party training programme in Kirtipur he
warned to unleash street agitation to defeat reactionaries' conspiracies
against republic.
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April 28
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Senior Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai
said that the Maoists would launch the third wave of indefinite
peaceful agitation if republic is not announced by the first week
of the month of Jestha (third week of May).
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April 29
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The Maoist-led Ministry of Information
and Communications directed state-owned newspapers to cover pro-Maoists
news with prominence and shun news that are critical of the Party
and its sister organisation Young Communist League.
The CPN-M officially launched
its pro-republican drive at a press meet in Dhankuta, which it
said, would be enforced through "street, parliament and Government."
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April 30
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The CPN-M refused to allow immediate
verification of its combatants who are put up in the cantonments
under the monitoring of the United Nations saying that they would
allow verification immediately after the political deadlock is
broken and the Government fulfils the physical requirements at
the cantonments.
The Office of the High Commissioner
for Human Rights in Nepal said that Maoist insurgents are not
complying with the Party’s commitment to allow internally displaced
persons to return in safely and retrieve their seized property
and land.
A group of about 500
Maoists attacked a Police Post at Suiya in the Katkuiya VDC area
of the Banke district. The Maoists detained Sub-Inspector Mukesh
Kunwar for 14 hours and assaulted Constables Krishna Pratap Sen
and Purna Bahadur.
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May 1
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Three Armed Police Force (AFP)
personnel were injured in a clash between activists of the YCL
and APF personnel at Sanoshree in the Bardiya district.
In the Kailali district, Maoists
assaulted two civilians, identified as Dhanraj Giri and Nripa
Rawal of Baliya and Chuha VDCs, respectively.
The United Nations Mission in
Nepal chief, Ian Martin, revealed that the delay in the second-phase
registration of the Maoist army, which was to begin on May 1,
is because of the Maoists’ conditions that the process should
start only after improvement of living conditions in the cantonments,
government remuneration to registered combatants and formation
of a committee to take responsibility for the future of the Maoist
army.
Addressing a gathering on the
occasion of May Day at Khulla Manch in Kathmandu, Prachanda said
that if a republic is not declared, the Maoists would unleash
agitation from the government, parliament, street and camps.
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May 2
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26 persons were injured when protesters
led by the YCL clashed with personnel of the APF at Sanosree in
the Bardiya district. According to Police sources, 16 civilians,
seven APF men and three YCL cadres were wounded.
In the Bardiya district, YCL cadres
vandalised the house of a journalist, Yuvaraj Adhikari, a correspondent
of Radio Nepal.
Maoists captured a plot of private
land covering six ropanis and six annas belonging
to one Purna Man Tamang of Daraune Pokhari VDC-3 of Kavrepalanchowk
district and destroyed crops worth tens of thousands of rupees.
A group of Maoists led by Ram
Kumar Yadav padlocked the Siraha municipality office protesting
against the alleged distribution of citizenship certificates to
Indian nationals.
Senior Maoist leader Mohan Baidya
aka Kiran said that the properties seized during conflict cannot
be returned to their owners. Speaking at a programme in Sindhuli
district, he said, "We will neither reduce the number of army
nor return the seized properties."
The United States retained the
Maoists in its terrorist list.
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May 3
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Kantipuronline reports that
tree felling in the Bardiya district has intensified since the
Maoists acquired the Ministry of Forest portfolio in the interim
government.
Prachanda reiterated that his
party would be compelled to launch the final struggle unless the
nation was declared a republic through constitutional means.
Local Development Minister Dev
Prasad Gurung threatened that his party would walk out of the
government if the Nepali Congress did not become ready to declare
Nepal a republic.
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May 4
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YCL cadres along with some locals
clashed with police personnel at Sundarpur in the Morang district,
leaving many locals injured.
In Phidim district, a group of
around 15 YCL cadres assaulted two activists, identified as Hemraj
Yonghang and Bipal Yonghang of Nagi VDC, who were going abroad
for employment and also robbed them of NR 70,000 cash and two
tolas of gold.
Cadres of the Maoist-affiliated
Tharu Mukti Morcha shut down Banke, Bardiya, Dang, Kailali and
Kanchanpur protesting against Bardiya's Sanoshree incident which
led to a clash between the YCL Cadres and the APF.
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May 5
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A group of Maoists led by activists
of the Maoist-affiliated Tharu Liberation Front and the YCL set
ablaze the offices of the Nepal Electricity Authority and Land
Revenue at Gulariya in the Bardiya district.
YCL condemned the arrest of 45
of its activists by the Police from Gulariya and threatened to
launch a nationwide agitation from May 7 onwards if the government
did not release them immediately without any condition.
Nine people, including two political
leaders, activists and businessmen from Kusumba bazaar at Sanoshree
VDC area in Bardiya district were displaced due to threats issued
by the YCL.
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May 7
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Police filed criminal offence
charges against 38 YCL cadres who were arrested for their involvement
in setting ablaze the Land Revenue and Nepal Electricity Authority
offices at Gulariya in the Bardiya district on May 5.
Around 150 YCL cadres
attacked a Police Post in the Dandagaun VDC area of Rasuwa district
and chased away the security force personnel posted there.
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May 8
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YCL activists assaulted the Assistant
Chief District Officer of Kailali, Ganja Bahadur Mahara Chhetry,
who tried to stop them from padlocking the District Administration
Office. The YCL activists also assaulted a security force personnel,
Ganesh Dhami and padlocked the District Development Office, the
District Land Revenue Office and the District Agricultural Office
in Kailali.
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May 9
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YCL cadres killed an elderly man,
identified as Bir Bahadur Kalakheti, near Khandbari in the Sankhuwasabha
district.
At least 50 persons - 40 Maoists
and 10 policemen — were injured in a clash between the Police
and Maoists in Ghorahi, headquarters of the Dang district.
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May 10
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YCL cadres ransacked the office
of the Small Farmer's Cooperatives at Tadhala in the Bardiya district
and looted all the documents from the office
The chief district officer of
Bardiya, Shiva Prasad Nepal, gave a three-day ultimatum to the
Maoists to vacate the building of the Cotton Development Committee
office in Sanoshree.
Bajura district committee of the
CPN-M announced that it would recapture the land and properties
it returned to the owners, who had returned to the district after
the signing of the peace accord. They also said they would not
return any more seized houses, land and properties.
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May 11
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The Maoist-affiliated All Nepal
Farmer’s Association-Revolutionary obstructed the operations of
the district administration and land revenue office in the Sankhuwasabha
district.
Maoists gheraoed the Sunsari District
Administration Office demanding that insurgents arrested in Bardiya
and Dang be released, a republic set up be announced, rebate in
farming loans and implementation of the revolutionary land reform
system. Maoists locked up the district officer Punya Prasad Bhattarai
along with three others in the office and also prevented the Chief
District Officer Sharda Bhakta Paudel from entering the office.
Maoists also locked up and gheraoed
the Mahottari District Administration Office and obstructed all
the official work.
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May 13
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At least 20 Maoists and eight
police personnel were injured in a clash between the police and
activists of the Maoist-affiliated Tharuwan Mukti Morcha, Madhesi
Mukti Morcha and the YCL in the Nepalgunj town of Banke district.
Maoist chairman Prachanda said
that the Central Committee of the CPN-Maoist has decided to return
all the lands its cadres seized in the past from the owners, to
smoothly lead the peace process and political process forward.
He, however, added that the condition of the ownership of the
tillers over the lands would remain "as it was before the conflict
or according to mutual understanding."
The CPN-M registered a proposal
at the Parliament for an amendment in the interim constitution
to declare the nation a republic immediately. The Maoists also
demanded that the PLA be recognised as part of the national force
and immediate steps be taken to integrate the PLA members into
the Nepal Army to establish a new national army force.
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May 14
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Over a dozen people were reported
injured in a bomb blast near a bus park in the Chadranigahpur
area in the Rautahat district. ‘Mr John’, a ‘commander’ of the
lesser-known Terai Army outfit, claimed responsibility for the
blast saying that a group led by Chattan Singh had carried out
the blast.
Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala
said that a republican set-up would be announced only after all
the king’s rights are over.
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May 15
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Cadres of the Jwala Singh faction
of the Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha (JTMM) killed two cadres
of the JTMM-Jaya Krishna Goit faction, identified as Nagendra
Baitha and Parmendra Sahani, in the Dharampur VDC area of Rautahat
district.
Activists of the Maoist-affiliated
All Nepal Women's Association-Revolutionary vandalised the Kanchanpur
District Administration Office. 18 activists were injured when
the Police used force to stop them from vandalising the office.
They also reportedly misbehaved with the Chief District Officer,
Netra Prasad Sharma, to whom they wanted to submit a memorandum
on women's rights.
Activists of the All Nepal National
Independent Students' Union-Revolutionary (ANNISU-R) vandalised
a statue of the late king Mahendra at Kalimati Chowk in Kathmandu.
In Pokhara they vandalised two statues of the late king Birendra
at Pokhara-10 and Pokhara-17 and a statue of the late king Mahendra
at Rastra Bank Chowk. In Nepalgunj Maoist cadres vandalised a
statue of the late king Birendra at Dhamboji Chowk. In Surkhet,
the ANNISU-R activists vandalised the statue of late king Birendra
situated at Birendranagar Bazaar.
A meeting of the Joint Monitoring
Coordination Committee decided to designate the Maoist weapons
meant for the protection of cantonments and the party leadership
with a separate insignia to avoid their misuse by the Maoists.
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May 16
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YCL cadres abducted eight persons
from Dhamauli-4 in the Rupandehi district.
Maoist insurgents abducted three
youths, Krishna Prasad Poudel, Birendra Adhikari and Santosh Bohora,
at Narayangadh in the Chitwan district alleging that they had
protested against the Maoists. According to locals, Maoists from
the Shaktikhor camp took the three away from their homes.
Maoists abducted Balgopal Shrestha,
a local businessman, from his house at Barahakshetra in the Sunsari
district, on the charge of "illegally selling mobile SIM cards."
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May 17
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YCL cadres assaulted Mahesh Prasad
Yadav, medical officer at the Primary Health Center at Kadarbona
in the Saptari district, accusing him of coming to office late.
Eight persons were injured when
Maoists organised a rally to protest against the arrest of 16
of their comrades on May 15 and clashed with the Police at Bhanuchowk
in the Kanchanpur district. Three police personnel, four Maoists
and one civilian were injured in the incident. Maoists also set
ablaze two police beats in the area.
In Sindhupalchowk district, a
group of local women led by Maoists attacked a Police Post in
Bhimtar village demanding their withdrawal from the area. In the
clash, Maoists seized some weapons belonging to the Police.
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May 18
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Maoists vandalised a statue of
the late King Prithvi Narayan Shah at Gorkha.
YCL cadres assaulted Prakash Pariyar
of Pipaltari VDC-1 in the Parbat district and broke his hands
and legs.
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May 19
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YCL cadres smeared the face of
Narayan Bikram Rana, a resident at Khata in the Bardiya district,
and padlocked his house on the charge that he was exploiting people.
YCL cadres assaulted an ex-Policeman
Lokraj Regmi at Shantibatka, near Ratnapark in Kathmandu after
an argument among them.
A group of YCL cadres looted property
worth NR 600,000 from the house of Ram Mani Nepane at Duwakot
in the Bhaktapur district.
YCL cadres assaulted two goldsmiths
- Sanjay Devi Sutradhar and her son Manoj Sutradhar - after vandalising
their shops at Thakurbadi road in the Biratnagar town of Morang
district.
In the Kailali district, Maoists
have reportedly captured 58 bighas of land belonging to
four Nepali Congress-Democratic leaders.
Senior Maoist leader and the Minister
for Local Development, Dev Gurung, said that Maoists can step
down from the government anytime and join the agitation.
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May 20
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A meeting of the Cantonment Management
Committee decided to provide NR 3000 a month to each member of
the PLA.
Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala
said the eight-party meeting would be held only after the Maoists
control the activities of the YCL. Koirala said that unless the
YCL activists were controlled, seized lands are returned and obstruction
of the parliament proceedings ended, the eight-party meeting would
not be held.
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May 21
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Maoist insurgents abducted Biswonath
Shah, principal of the Janasewa Secondary School of Siraha, from
his residence at Karjanha VDC area in the Siraha district on the
charge of committing irregularities in the school's finances.
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May 22
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Maoists in the Banke district
announced that they will not obey their central or district level
leaders' instructions regarding the return of the seized properties.
They also refused to implement agreements reached among the eight
political parties regarding return of such properties.
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May 23
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Prachanda directed the YCL cadres
to improve their activities. Addressing a central committee meeting
of the YCL in Kathmandu he said that while their activities like
curbing smuggling, road building and urban management were laudable,
their actions against government offices and individuals have
drawn criticism. He urged them to stop such actions and be involved
only in popular activities.
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May 25
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YCL cadres hurled stones at the
vehicle carrying the United States Ambassador James F. Moriarty
at Damak in the Jhapa district. The YCL cadres also waved black
flags and shouted anti-US slogans.
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May 27
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At least 15 persons were injured
when Maoists and workers of Nepali Congress (Democratic) clashed
in Simikot, the headquarters of Humla district.
Maoists, including some cadres
of the YCL, attacked a district level workers' training programme
of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) in Kusmabazaar of Parbat.
Over one dozen RPP workers, including its district president Rana
Bahadur Chhetri and central trainer Madhu Prasad Risal, were injured
in the attack. YCL cadres also assaulted Durga Sharma, local correspondent
of Nepal One TV and Nepal Samacharpatra daily, when
he reached the site where the Maoists were assaulting RPP activists.
Maoists forced the reinstated
Purghat police post located in Purwottarhat-3 of Baitadi district
to shift from the area. Maoists forced 13 policemen stationed
at the post to leave the area and go back to the district headquarters.
YCL cadres prevented vehicles
bearing Indian number plates from entering Pashupatinagar checkpoint
in Ilam district and forced it to return back to India. YCL cadres
also staged a demonstration in Pashupatinagar, saying that India
has encroached upon Nepalese territory and that Indian vehicles
have been plying in Nepal illegally without paying any tax.
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May 28
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20 people were injured in a clash
between the YCL cadres and students belonging to the All Nepal
National Free Students Union (ANNFSU), which is affiliated to
the Rashtriya Janamorcha at Barmeli Tole in the Bhairahawa district.
Maoists injured six Dalits
(lower caste Hindus), including some women, at Devipur VDC-9 in
the Siraha district following a dispute with locals.
Maoists assaulted a journalist,
identified as Shambhu Singh Karki, a central member of the Broadcasting
Association of Nepal. He was attacked by the insurgents who were
angry over the news aired by him on Radio Palung FM.
A meeting of the Joint Monitoring
and Coordination Committee decided to start the second stage verification
of the PLA combatants from June 10.
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May 29
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Nine persons, including a child,
were killed when three bombs exploded in a house at Bhutuke village
in the Gothadi VDC area of Palpa district. The bombs exploded
simultaneously while some locals were taking them out of a bucket.
It is believed that these bombs were left behind by the Maoists
as this region used to be a safe heaven for their activities.
Another bomb exploded at the CPN-Maoist
party office at Buddhanagar in the capital Kathmandu damaging
the window panes of the building. An anonymous caller identifying
himself as an activist of the Nepal Defence Army called up the
Himalayan Times office to claim responsibility for the
blast.
A group of 25 YCL cadres damaged
a statue of King Birendra at Pratima Chowk in the Parsa district.
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May 30
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Around 400 Maoists, most of whom
were YCL cadres, led by their parliamentarian Motidevi Chaudhary,
seized over 60 bighas of land belonging to locals at Baida
in the Bardiya district. 14 persons were also injured when they
clashed with the members of the local Gyanjyoti Youth Club who
prevented them from looting fruits from an orchard, which has
been preserved by the Club.
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May 31
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A meeting of the eight political
parties decided to hold the Constituent Assembly elections by
the third week of November 2007.
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June 2
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YCL cadres attacked a vehicle
carrying leaders of the Nepali Congress at Ganeshsthan in the
Nuwakot district.
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June 3
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Three YCL cadres abducted a businessman,
identified as Sitaram Prasai, from his office of the Cottage and
Small Industry Development Bank in Kamaladi.
Maoists assaulted and injured
an unspecified number of villagers at Bhawang VDC in the Rolpa
district.
The Maoist-affiliated Madhesi
National Liberation Front (MNLF) decided to launch a month-long
agitation in Terai demanding an autonomous Madhes region, revocation
of Electoral Constituency Delineation Commission report, federal
system, declaration of republic and right to self-determination.
Cadres of the JTMM- Jwala Singh
faction captured 15 bighas of land belonging to a CPN-UML
activist, Ram Ekbal Rai, at Sonarniya VDC.
The first phase of the formal
talks between the government and the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum
(MJF) ended with agreement reached on one half of the 26-point
demands put forth by the Forum.
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June 4
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An armed group of the Janatantrik
Terai Mukti Morcha (JTMM- Goit faction) shot dead Munna Kumar
Jaiswal, an area committee member of the CPN-Maoist, at Kalahi
Jagadi in the Pipra Basantapur VDC area of Bara district.
One person, identified as Ajay
Chaurasiya, was killed and three others injured during indiscriminate
firing by unidentified gunmen in the Birgunj area of Parsa district.
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June 5
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Cadres of JTMM - Jwala Singh faction
abducted and subsequently shot dead a district coordinator of
the YCL, identified as Krishna Mohan Shah, near the banks of Lalbakaiya
River in the Rautahat district.
The JTMM - Jwala Singh faction
captured land belonging to the former Chief Justice Keshav Prasad
Upadhyaya in the Siraha district.
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June 6
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The pro-Maoist Tamuwan Liberation
Front claimed it captured over 50 ropanis of land in Pokhara
belonging to the royal family.
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June 7
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Unidentified assailants killed
a Nepali Congress member, Ram Dayal Yadav, at Dhirapura village
in the Mahottari district. Four of his relatives were also injured
in the attack.
JTMM- Jwala Singh faction activists
abducted Devnath Yadav, an employee of the Agriculture Development
Bank, at Lahan in the Siraha district.
Around 150 YCL cadres led by their
Itahari in-charge Bhabindra Acharya entered the house of one Man
Bahadur Izam, took away all the belongings and burnt some important
documents on the charges of his involvement in a killing. The
YCL reportedly established its office in Izam’s house.
Maoist members of parliament,
Uma Bhugel and Manju Bam, challenged Prime Minister Girija Prasad
Koirala to ban the YCL if it is a criminal league as claimed by
him. "Why don’t you ban the YCL if it is a criminal group," they
said.
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June 8
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The JTMM–Jwala Singh faction cadres
abducted a civilian, identified as Bajgain, from Jamuniya VDC
area in the Rautahat district and also seized his motorbike.
Cadres of the JTMM-Goit faction
abducted a civilian, identified as Chitra Bahadur Pant alias Bishnu,
of Chatari Bananiya VDC-6 in the Siraha district.
YCL activists seized land belonging
to Jagat Bahadur Roka in the Tathipokhari Bazaar of Gorkha district
claiming that Rokka had illegally acquired it when he was the
chairman of the District Development Committee during the royal
regime.
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June 10
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YCL activists set ablaze seven
vehicles at Shivapur village on the Mahendra Highway in the Kapilvastu
district for defying their call for a district-wide general strike.
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June 12
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A central-level leader of the
Maoists and a central member of the Maoist-affiliated All Nepal
Peasants Association (Revolutionary), identified as Dasarath Thakur
a.k.a. Rohit, was abducted and subsequently killed by cadres of
the JTMM-Goit faction in the Saptari district.
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June 13
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Activists of the MJF abducted
and subsequently killed two central members of the YCL, Binod
Pant a.k.a. Jitendra and Sheshmani Lamichhane a.k.a. Mani, at
Shivpur in the Gonaha VDC area of Rupandehi district.
Four people were injured in a
clash between Maoists and Nepali Congress – Democratic cadres
in the Ramechhap district.
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June 14
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JTMM-Jwala Singh cadres shot dead
the Bara district committee member and district vice-chairman
of the Maoist-affiliated Madheshi Liberation Front, Jokhan Mansuri,
at Simraungadh in the Bara district.
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June 16
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A group of some 20-25 JTMM-Jwala
Singh cadres set ablaze the home of former Maoist People's Government
chief, Lal Bahadur Chaudhary, at Simara VDC area in the Bara district.
Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala
said that he would propose November 26 as the date for constituent
assembly election at the next cabinet meeting.
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June 18
|
YCL cadres 'arrested' two activists
of the Jwala Singh faction of the JTMM, Ram Shovit Yadav and Dev
Chandra Yadav, along with a pistol, in the Lahan area of Siraha
district and later handed over them to police. YCL cadres also
reportedly 'arrested' an armed cadre of the JTMM-Goit faction
from the same place.
The MJF demanded the ouster of
the Maoists from the government and imposing of a ban on its youth
wing, the YCL. Speaking at a press conference in Mahottari, MJF
chairman Upendra Yadav accused the Maoists of violating the Peace
Accord and of not storing away all their arms in the containers
monitored by the UNMIN.
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June 19
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The body of the Nepali Congress
- Democratic Humla district member, Netra Bahadur Shahi, who was
abducted by the Maoists on March 10 from Shrimasta village, was
found at a riverbank at an unspecified place.
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June 20
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Police raided the YCL office at
Nepalgunj in the Banke district and rescued the Regional Health
Director, Dr. Piyush Bahadur Rajendra, who was abducted by the
YCL cadres on ‘charges’ of corruption. Along with Dr. Rajendra,
police also rescued one Ganga Gurung from Pokhara who was held
captive since the past one and a half month.
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June 21
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YCL cadres disrupted traffic on
the Nawalpur-Malangawa stretch of the Mahendra Highway since June
21-afternoon protesting against the arrest of their fellow cadre,
Thagaram, and demanding his immediate release.
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June 24
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Maoists torched four cargo vehicles
parked at Rupani in Saptari district for defying the three-day
bandh (general strike), announced by them following the
killing of the Maoist Saptari in-charge by cadres of the JTMM-G.
A meeting of the Council of Ministers
fixed November 22 as the date to hold the elections for the Constituent
Assembly.
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June 25
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Maoists assaulted an hotelier,
identified as Chhoda Sherpa, for refusing to reduce the room rents
for a team of Maoist artistes visiting Bamti Deurali in the Ramechhap
district.
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June 26
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Cadres of the JTMM-J killed a
villager, identified as Laxman Ram Chamar, in the Sukhipathara
VDC-6 area of Bara district for his alleged involvement in robbery.
JTMM-J cadres abducted a person,
Shiv Kumar Yadav, from his residence at Bariyarpatti-6 VDC area
in the Siraha district for his alleged involvement in many criminal
activities in the past, including rape.
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June 27
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Eight military commanders of the
JTMM-G led by Bisfot Singh decided to split and form another breakaway
faction.
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July 1
|
Cadres of the JTMM-J abducted
the Maoist’s area no. 1 secretary Ram Prabesh Shah from his residence
at Madhavpur market in the Rautahat district and subsequently
shot him dead.
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July 3
|
Cadres of the JTMM-J abducted
a lawyer, identified as Balram Mehta, from outside the District
Police Office at Inaruwa in the Sunsari district.
10 JTMM-J cadres were injured
in a clash with a police patrol team at Santapur Dostiya VDC in
the Rautahat district.
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July 4
|
JTMM-J cadres shot dead a government
employee, Raj Kumar Joshi, at Tarapatti Sirsiya in the Dhanusha
district.
Cadres of the MJF padlocked the
office of the District Development Committee (DDC) in Mahottari
district for an indefinite period. The MJF said it padlocked the
office as they were denied any role in the daily activities of
the DDC and the VDCs.
Three persons were injured in
a bomb blast at Hariaun in the Sarlahi district. A little known
outfit called the Terai Army claimed responsibility for the blast.
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July 7
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Nine persons were injured after
the YCL cadres attacked the monarchists' rally in Kathmandu. Maoists
reportedly obstructed the supporters of King Gyanendra from participating
in a rally in front of the Narayanhiti royal palace. Similar incidents
were reported from the Bhotahity, Asan, New Road, Sundhara and
Lainchaur areas in Kathmandu.
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July 8
|
YCL cadres vandalised the offices
of the Rastriya Prajantantra Party and Rastriya Janashakti Party
in Dhankuta alleging that their leaders had attended the birthday
celebrations of the King.
Maoists forced out police personnel
from a recently established police post at Ghandruk of Kaski district.
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July 9
|
Maoists assaulted Ganesh Prasad
Bhattarai, secretary of the Pharpu VDC in the Ramechhap district.
Four Maoists led by area no. 3 in-charge Madan entered his home
and assaulted Bhattarai saying that he did not give the donation
of NR 50,000 which was demanded from him.
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July 10
|
YCL cadres assaulted a civilian,
identified as Ram Prasad Rana, a resident of Jadepani in Daiji
VDC-6 of Kanchanpur district. The cadres took Rana to their office
at Sisaiya for "interrogation" and severely assaulted him there.
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July 12
|
Around 15 YCL cadres assaulted three locals of
Gaidakhal in the Sunwal VDC-5 area of Nawalparasi district without
any provocation.
Cadres of the Maoist-affiliated
All Nepal Farmers' Association-Revolutionary and All Nepal Trade
Unions' Federation captured 1100 ropanis (1 ropani = 5476 square
feet) of land belonging to former Prime Minister and chairperson
of the Rastriya Janashakti Party, Surya Bahadur Thapa. They captured
Thapa’s land at north of the Uttarpani-Hile road section in Dhankuta
district and said that the land was captured as Thapa attended
the King's birthday celebration.
The second phase verification
of the PLA came to an indefinite halt as the Maoists refused to
continue with the verification process.
Maoist leaders Prachanda and Baburam
Bhattarai met Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and urged him
to come up with a package deal to adjust registered Maoist combatants
in the national security wings. Maoists threatened that the second
stage of verification would not begin without the government first
agreeing on the deal.
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July 13
|
Cadres of the JTMM-J abducted
and subsequently killed two members of a family in the Saptari
district.
Cadres of the JTMM-G abducted
two persons, Lila Bahadur Shrestha and his wife Kamala Shrestha,
from the Diman area of Saptari district.
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July 14
|
Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula
asked various rebel groups active in the Terai region to come
to the negotiation table within the next two weeks. He also warned
that if the armed groups failed to do so, the government would
dispatch the security forces against them.
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July 15
|
A Maoist insurgent, identified
as Ganga Yadav, was killed by cadres of the JTMM-G at Baspatti
in the Motihari area of Siraha district.
Over 12 persons were injured in
the Sindhupalchowk district when the YCL cadres who came to resolve
a dispute between two local groups at Shikharpur VDC started assaulting
them.
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July 17
|
YCL cadres vandalised the office
of Rastriya Prajatantra Party at Gadhi in the Baitadi district.
JTMM-J rejected the ultimatum
given by Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula to come to the negotiating
table within 15 days.
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July 18
|
JTMM-J cadres killed Ram Hari
Pokharel, secretary of the Govindapur VDC in Siraha district,
who was abducted on July 15.
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July 19
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JTMM-J cadres abducted Muritya
VDC secretary Jagannath Sah at Barhathawa in Sarlahi district.
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July 21
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A group of armed JTMM-G cadres
shot dead a local Maoist leader Binod Mallik at Bisarbhora in
the Dhanusha district.
Seven Maoist combatants of Chhintangsukhani
Memorial Brigade ran away from the PLA camp at Yangsila in the
Morang district along with their weapons.
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July 23
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Maoist trade union workers violently
disrupted distribution of two daily newspapers, Himalayan Times
and Annapurna Post, for the fifth consecutive day on
July 23 demanding that the delivery boys be given permanent employment.
A meeting of the Joint Monitoring
Coordination Committee reached a consensus to resume the second
phase of the verification process from the second week of August.
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July 26
|
JTMM-J cadres abducted and shot
dead a civilian, Duryodhan Dhanuk, at Bara Inarwa Sira in the
Bara district.
A group of around 25 JTMM-J cadres
captured the ancestral house of a former Chief Justice, Keshav
Prasad Upadhyaya, at Bishnupur Chowk in the Bishnupur VDC-4 area
in the Siraha district. They also fired shots in the air warning
of physical action against anybody who buys the property.
JTMM-G said that it is ready to
hold a dialogue with the Government provided the United Nations
or any other credible international agency agrees to broker it.
In a letter to Chief of the UN Mission in Nepal, Ian Martin, Goit
hinted at the possibility of talks if the Government builds an
amicable environment for it.
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July 29
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30 persons, including six police
personnel, were injured in a clash between Maoists and the police
in Charikot, district headquarters of Dolakha. The Maoists protested
against the local administration as it filed a public offence
case against Maoist area no-2 in-charge and district committee
member Bishal Khadka on the charge of tarring the face of a former
District Development committee president Sundar Prakash Khadka.
They vandalised the District Administration Office and thrashed
Chief District Officer Uddhav Bahadur Thapa.
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July 30
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JTMM-G cadres abducted and subsequently
shot dead a person, identified as Shanker Man Singh Basnet, at
Bariyarpur in the Bara district.
Cadres of the Madhesi Liberation
Tigers abducted a civilian, identified as Tek Bahadur Kunwar of
Saptari’s Bhardaha-1, and shot him dead.
A group of 10-15 cadres of JTMM-J
shot at and injured a member of the Chure Bahwar Ekta Samaj, identified
as Chhir Bahadur Shrstha of Theliya-7, at Rajbiraj in the Saptari
district.
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July 31
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A group of six to seven armed
JTMM-G cadres abducted a civilian, identified as Rajendra Prasad
Kanu, from his home at Khophahawa VDC-2 and killed him some 200
meters away from his home.
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August 2
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Maoists assaulted police personnel
at a police post in the remote Piplang village of Humla district,
protesting against the arrest of one of their comrades, identified
as Nanda, who was arrested on the charge of killing a Nepali Congress-Democratic
activist, Netra Bahadur Shahi.
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August 3
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An inquiry report blaming King
Gyanendra for the violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests
in 2006 was presented to Parliament. The report, prepared by a
government-appointed panel, said the royal cabinet, including
its chairman, had "misused power, authority and position and were
responsible for the loss of life and property as well as the violation
of human rights during the crackdown on the peaceful people's
movement."
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August 4
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JTMM-J cadres abducted a civilian,
identified as Lokendra Dangi, from Jhokra-4, in the Sunsari district.
JTMM-J Sunsari in-charge Krish claimed that Dangi was abducted
on charges of extorting high interests from money lent to poor
people.
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August 5
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Cadres of the JTMM-J killed a
local businessman, identified as Mohan Gautam, two days after
abducting him from Sitapur in the Saptari district.
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August 6
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Cadres of the JTMM-J opened fire
on two persons in the Bara district. One person, identified as
Prakash Subedi, succumbed to his injuries in the hospital.
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August 7
|
Cadres of the CPN-Maoist and the
Young Communist League assaulted and injured a leader of the Nepali
Congress - Democratic, identified as Raghunath Gautam, at Kavre.
The fifth plenum of the Maoists
unanimously endorsed party chairman Prachanda’s political and
organisational report, which states that proportional representation
and declaration of a republic are the pre-conditions for the Constituent
Assembly elections to be held.
Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula
said that none of the agitating groups in Terai are separatists
and they do not pose any threat to national integrity and that
the government can find a negotiated settlement with all of them.
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August 8
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Maoist leaders said that they
are prepared for a 'revolt' in government, the parliament and
in the streets for establishment of republic.
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August 9
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A group of 23 Maoists led by the
Nuwakot district committee member Raj Kumar Regmi attacked three
police personnel on duty at the Phikuri-4 police post and looted
all the weapons.
Police arrested four Maoists along
with a home-made gun and a pistol from Amuwa village in the Rupandehi
district.
Around 25 journalists were assaulted
by Maoists at Gorkhapatra Corporation in Kathmandu as the journalists
were picketing at the gate demanding reinstatement of 49 journalists
dismissed by the Maoist-led management at Gorkhapatra newspaper.
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August 11
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Workers of the Maoist-affiliated
trade union, the Communication, Printing and Publications Workers’
Union disrupted the distribution of two daily newspapers The
Himalayan Times and Annapurna Post and obstructed the
printing of the dailies alleging that both these newspapers carried
news against them on their front pages - a story about the Patan
Appellate Court’s summons to three Maoist trade union leaders.
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August 12
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Cadres of the JTMM-J attacked
a police patrol at Maulapur village in the Rautahat district.
Consequent to retaliatory action by the police, the JTMM-J cadres
fled the incident site. However, no casualties were reported in
the incident.
Addressing a press conference
in Kathmandu, Maoist chairman Prachanda said that his party will
decide, within 10 days, whether to remain in the interim government.
Local Maoist leaders in Dolakha
district warned of a "fight to finish" struggle if the
district administration does not unconditionally release its 28
cadres who were arrested for assaulting the chief district officer
on July 29.
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August 13
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A meeting of the Joint Monitoring
Coordination Committee comprising the government, Maoists and
the United Nations representatives agreed to resume the second
stage of the verification of the Peoples' Liberation Army from
August 14.
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August 14
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A group of about 12 YCL cadres
attempted to abduct the Dristi weekly’s journalist Madhav
Basnet from his office at Bagbazar and threatened to kill him.
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August 15
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11 Maoists who were facing attempted
murder charges for their involvement in assaulting Chief District
Officer Uddhav Bahadur Thapa and vandalising the District Administration
Office were released by the District Court of Dolakha.
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August 16
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Two cadres of the JTMM-J, identified
as Sanjay Patel Abinash and Mithun Patel, were killed in a clash
with the villagers of Biruwaguthi VDC at Badnihar in the Parsa
district.
Cadres of the JTMM-G set ablaze
two vehicles for violating their call for a general strike at
Bhaliya area in the Bara district.
Maoists barred the Nepal Electricity
Authority clients at Chautara sub-branch office in the Sindhupalchowk
district from paying electricity tariff.
According to a statement issued
by Prachanda, the Maoists have decided to divide the country in
ethnic and regional lines into 11 state committees. They are Seti-Mahakali,
Tharuwan, Bheri-Karnali, Magarat, Tamuwan, Tamba Saling, Newa,
Madhes, Limbuwan, Kirat and Kochila. The Madhes state committee
is further divided into Mithila, Bhojpura, and Abadh sub-state
committees.
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August 19
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In a press statement, Jwala Singh
described the Constituent Assembly elections as a ruse and warned
that his group would foil it. He said that his group will prevent
Terai people from casting their votes, adding that the "regime
of hill people" has no right to conduct election in "liberated
Terai."
Chairman of the MJF, Upendra Yadav,
asked Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala to address his group’s
demands before August 22. He told Koirala that an election environment
would not be possible without resolving the issues raised by the
MJF.
The Election Commission announced
that voting for Constituent Assembly elections will take place
from 7 am to 5 pm across the country on November 22.
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August 20
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Maoists announced that they would
launch indefinite nationwide protest programmes if their 22-point
demands for the Constituent Assembly elections are not met immediately.
They also warned of a new people’s movement from the government,
parliament and the street if their demands are not met.
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August 21
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Maoists stopped police personnel
from patrolling some villages in the Parbat district.
Cadres of the JTMM-J exchanged
fire with the security forces at Sasar VDC of Saptari district
on August 21-night. Police arrested three JTMM-J cadres and recovered
two socket bombs and three pistols from their possession.
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August 22
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Normal life was paralysed in central
Nepal, including the capital Kathmandu, following a strike called
by a pro-Maoist ethnic group Nepal Rashtriya Tamang Mukti Morcha
to press for autonomy. Transport services were halted and markets,
schools and colleges remained closed in the districts of Kathmandu,
Makawanpur, Sindhupalchowk, Kavrepalanchowk, Makawanpur, Dhading,
Nuwakot and Rasuwa.
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August 23
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A cabinet meeting decided to nationalise
seven royal palaces - Narayanhiti Royal Palace, the Hanumandhoka
Palace, the Patan Palace, the Bhaktapur Palace, Gorakha Palace,
Lamjung Palace and Nuwakot Palace - along with a total of 1,533
ropanies of land the palaces occupy. The meeting also decided
to freeze the bank accounts of King Gyanendra, Queen Komal and
Crown Prince Paras to stop transfer of money from the late King
Birendra and late Queen Aishwarya.
YCL submitted a 28-point memorandum
to Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala demanding, among others,
the declaration of a republic, a round table meeting, setting
up autonomous regions on basis of ethnic groups, federal governance
and proportional electoral system. It also demanded the immediate
nationalisation of the property of Late King Birendra as well
as King Gyanendra as well the property of those who were involved
in corruption during Gyanendra's rule. It urged the government
to fulfill the demands including the 22-point demand of the Maoists
and asked the government to release its arrested leaders and cadres.
Some Maoist combatants who were
earlier disqualified by the verification team of the United Nations
Mission in Nepal have been qualified in its re-verification process
conducted in the cantonment at Chulachuli in the Ilam district,.
However, the number of combatants passing the re-verification
process has not been disclosed.
The MJF chairman Upendra Yadav
warned that the central committee of his party has decided to
launch an agitation in the Terai if their demands were not met
by the government within a week.
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August 24
|
Suspected JTMM-J cadres abducted
and subsequently shot dead a Nepali Congress activist, identified
as Phulchan Saha Kanu, in the Ramnagari VDC of Birgunj district.
Addressing a meeting in the capital
Kathmandu, Prachanda proposed to postpone the Constituent Assembly
election till mid-April 2008 as, he said, that elections cannot
be held in an atmosphere of pressure.
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August 26
|
Baburam Bhattarai warned that
his party could walk out of the government anytime if the Constituent
Assembly election cannot be held without first declaring a republic.
He said, "We have decided to launch our struggle from the government,
the parliament and the streets. If needed, we can walk out of
the government front anytime," adding that, "We need guarantee
of federal republic before going for elections."
The ministerial committee formed
to nationalise royal property recommended nationalisation of five
more palaces and eight jungles owned by the King. The Nagarjuna
and Gokarna palaces in Kathmandu, Ratna palace in Pokhara, Kanti
Iswari palace in Hetauda and Diyalo palace in Chitwan along with
eight forests spread across 35,000 square kilometers in Nagarjuna,
Gokarna, Balaju, Thanksen of Nuwakot district and Bharatpur of
Chitwan district are to be nationalised.
A splinter group of the JTMM-G
led by one Prithvi Raj Singh has announced the establishment of
another armed group called as the Liberation Tigers of Terai Ilam.
The group has a 21-member central committee led by one Prithvi
Raj Singh. It also named Mohammad Ziya-ul as its secretary, Swamiji
as the in-charge of eastern command and Arjun Thakur as the in-charge
of western command.
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August 28
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JTMM-J cadres abducted Druba Sah,
secretary of the Pokharbhinta VDC in Siraha district. The group
claimed that he was abducted for not paying ‘tax’ to the ‘Terai
Government’.
Police arrested nine JTMM-J cadres
from the Bishnupurkatti area of Siraha district and recovered
a Chinese-make pistol and bullets.
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August 29
|
YCL cadres seized three .303 rifles
and 115 rounds of ammunition from the police on the Choharba section
of the East-West Highway in the Siraha district. The YCL cadres,
who were protesting the arrest of seven Maoists, also vandalised
a police van, and injured four police personnel. They also obstructed
vehicular movement along the highway at several points demanding
immediate release of their arrested comrades and an apology from
the local administration.
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August 30
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The Bara district commander of
the JTMM-J, Jamuna Singh, was shot dead by the police in an encounter
at Charmohana Tole. The police also recovered a large amount of
arms and explosives, including a US-made handgun, three twelve-bore
rifles, two homemade guns, one revolver, 87 pieces of improvised
explosives, one SMG magazine round and 45 rounds of rifle bullets
from the encounter site.
Around 300 Maoists disrupted a
function organised by the CPN-UML district committee to campaign
for Constituent Assembly elections at Syuna in the Kalikot district.
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September 1
|
Six Maoists and two villagers
were injured after clashes ensued between the two in the Dhairing
VDC of Parbat district. The villagers attacked the Maoists as
the Maoists assaulted and abducted a supporter of Nepali Congress
identified as Raju Acharya.
YCL cadres barred a team of Armed
Police Force personnel from visiting Raskot village in Kalikot
district for the purpose of inspecting the area for setting up
a polling centre.
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September 2
|
Two persons were killed and 25
others injured in a series of bomb blasts in three busy market
places in the Kathmandu city. The blasts in Tripureshwor and Sundhara
occurred at bus stands while another bomb exploded inside a bus
near the Balaju Industrial Estate. Two little known Terai-based
armed groups – Terai Army and Terai Utthan Sangat - have claimed
responsibility for the blasts.
Cadres of the JTMM-G shot dead
a youth, Lal Babu Shah Sonar, at Jayanagar in the Rautahat district
accusing him of spying against their party and being involved
in looting, raping and killing people.
Six persons were injured in a
clash between activists of the MJF and police in the Nepalgunj
town of Banke district. The MJF activists also vandalised the
vehicle of the Superintendent of Police.
Three people were injured when
hundreds of locals made an organised attack on the Maoists at
Chankhe Dhokra in the Rasuwa district. The locals retaliated against
the Maoists when the Rasuwa district president of the Maoist-affiliated
All Nepal National Independent Students’ Union-Revolutionary’s
assaulted a local of Ghumti bazaar in Dhaibung VDC-3.
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September 3
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Maoists intervened in a press
meet at Parbat and assaulted a journalist, Ram Chandra Joshi,
and a civil servant, Liladhar Subedi. They also vandalised the
office of the local Chamber of Commerce and Industry at Kushma
Bazaar.
Maoists called an indefinite strike
in the Rasuwa district from September 3 demanding the release
of their cadre who has gone missing after a clash occurred between
the locals and Maoists at Dhaibung VDC on September 2.
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September 4
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A schoolgirl, identified as Sandhya
Khadka, who was injured in the Kathmandu serial blasts on September
2, succumbed to her injuries in the hospital.
Police arrested five Liberation
Tigers of Terai Ilam cadres, including its leader Ramlochan Yadav
a.k.a. Swamiji, from Janakpur in the Dhanusha district.
A meeting of the Revolutionary
People's Council (RPC) of the Maoists’ decided to reactivate its
'kangaroo courts' across the country. The coordinator of the council,
Baburam Bhattarai, said, "As the common people have failed to
receive justice from the current state mechanism and action has
not been taken against the corrupt and criminals, we have decided
to reactivate such a mechanism to provide justice to the people."
Similarly, Prachanda said, "The network of RPC should be reactivated
and expanded from the center to municipalities and villages across
the country to prepare for the people's movement."
Deputy Commanders of the PLA met
Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and submitted a six-point
memorandum calling for improvement in the condition of the United
Nations administered PLA cantonments, addressing the problems
facing the PLA combatants, disbursement of salary and other benefits
the government had pledged, and their integration into the Nepal
Army. The Deputy Commanders have warned that they would be compelled
to organise protest programmes if their demands are not met.
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September 5
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The Maoist-affiliated Young Communist
League (YCL) has announced a campaign from September 18 against
corruption. The League’s valley in-charge, Sagar, said the YCL
has already prepared a list of around 50 corrupt persons which
includes industrialists, politicians and the common people, who
have amassed millions of rupees through illegal means. He stated:
"People who have made money through illegal means during King
Gyanendra's rule are on the top of the list."
A central committee meeting of
the Madheshi Janaadhikar Forum (MJF) endorsed the 22-point deal
signed between MJF and the Government on August 30. The meeting
expelled the four dissident leaders Kishore Kumar Bishwas, Bhagyanath
Gupta, Jitendra Sonal and Ram Kumar Sharma and also decided that
the MJF will take part in the Constituent Assembly election.
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September 6
|
Cadres of the Maoist-affiliated
Young Communist League (YCL) assault and injure five persons at
the Sukhachaina VDC area in Siraha district.
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September 7
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A crude bomb exploded in front
of a petrol pump in the Shripur area of Birgunj district. However,
no casualty was reported. The Jwala Singh faction of the Janatantrik
Terai Mukti Morcha claimed responsibility for the blast. In the
same area, two bombs are recovered and later diffused by the security
force personnel from Kadambari School.
The Maoists, violating the agreement
to return the properties and lands seized during the period of
insurgency, declare to resume the process of confiscating the
land of the landlords to be distributed to the landless people.
This was stated by a Maoist-affiliated organisation, the All Nepal
Peasants Association (Revolutionary), at a press conference in
Katmandu.
The Madheshi Mukti Tigers supported
indefinite strike (to press the government to accept a 14-point
charter of demands) leads to complete disruption of normal life
in the Siraha, Bara, Sarlahi and Udaypur districts of the Terai
region.
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September 8
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CPN-Maoist chairman Prachanda
directs party cadres to be ready for another revolution. Addressing
a workshop in Bardiya district, he said that revolution is necessary
as the government has still not laid the foundation for the Constituent
Assembly (CA) polls. "The CA can’t be set up under pressure.
Therefore, be ready for another revolution," he said.
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September 9
|
Cadres of the Maoist affiliated
Young Communist League (YCL) assault a local businessman, Bhola
Sah, in the Udayapur district for illegally selling marijuana.
Police arrested YCL cadres, Bimarsha Raj Karki and Netra Lal Kunwar,
for their involvement in the incident.
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September 10
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Maoist chairman Prachanda reiterates
his party's decision to quit the government by September 16 if
the government does not fulfill their "22-point pre-requisites."
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September 11
|
Cadres of the JTMM-J abducted
the headmaster of Tulsiram Satyabhama Dotel Secondary School,
Arun Kumar Shrestha, from his house and subsequently killed him
at Bishnupurkatti VDC, in the Siraha district.
An armed group of Madhesi Mukti
Tigers activists shot dead Narayan Sah at Theliaya VDC-7 in the
Saptari district after dragging him out from his house.
JTMM-G said that the group would
boycott the CA polls as it is not in the interest of the welfare
of the Madhesis. Goit also threatened that the group will launch
an armed struggle against the polls.
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September 12
|
Cadres of the JTMM-J shot dead
an employee of a brick kiln, Kedar Prasad Giri, at Baghchauda
in the Janakpur area of Dhanusha district. A central member of
the JTMM-J, Rajan Mukti, claimed responsibility for the killing.
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September 13
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Upendra Yadav, chairman of the
MJF, accused the Maoists of trying to split his party. Addressing
a gathering of MJF leaders and cadres at Itahari, Yadav said,
"The Maoists are trying to sow dissensions in the MJF's rank and
file and split the party. They are working in opposition to the
MJF and as such, it is difficult for the MJF to work with them."
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September 14
|
PLA cadres came out of their cantonments
in Arunkhola of Nawalparasi and demonstrated for one hour demanding
the implementation of the 22-point issues raised by the Maoists.
JTMM-J threatened to disrupt the
CA polls and declared several programmes including strikes so
as to disrupt CA elections in Terai region. It stated that the
CA election is just a sham to deceive the Madheshi people and
the group has also warned to take physical action against those
taking part in the election campaigning in Terai.
Around 1000 soldiers of the PLA
of Nawalparasi, Jhyaltungdanda and from other camps at Hattikhor,
Jargaha and Sainamaina came out of their camps and demonstrated
in the street demanding to concede their six-point charter of
demands.
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September 16
|
Chairman of the Democratic Madhesi
Front, Mohit Khan, was shot dead by unidentified extremists at
Birpur-5 village in the Kapilavastu district. Subsequently, violence
gripped different areas of the district in which four persons
were killed.
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September 17
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Three civilians were killed in
mob violence at Kapilavastu and Rupandehi districts following
the killing of the Chairman of the Democratic Madhesi Front, Mohit
Khan, on September16.
One civilian was killed and another
injured, when JTMM-J cadres hurled a hand grenade at a passenger
bus in the Bara district on September 16-night.
Six persons, including some police
personnel, were injured when MJF activists clashed with the Armed
Police Force personnel at Nepalgunj in the Banke district. The
activists were demanding the release of Hiralal Loniya - district
chairman of the MJF, who was arrested for killing a Maoist.
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September 18
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JTMM-J cadres led by their area
in-charge Prithvi Singh abducted Laxmi Narayan Yadav, secretary
of the Majhaura VDC of Siraha district, for failing to "pay taxes
to the Terai government."
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September 19
|
JTMM-G cadres abducted five civilians
from the Rautahat district including Ramlochan Sah, former vice-chairman
of Ramauli Bairiya VDC, CPN-UML activist Nagendra Prasad Patel,
Junior Technical Assistant at Garuda sugar mill Shankar Sah, and
two other residents of Ramauli Bairiya VDC.
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September 20
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Three civilians were killed in
fresh mob violence between two groups at Jagdishpur in the Kapilvastu
district. The government appointed a three member commission headed
by Rajbiraj Appellate Court judge Lokendra Mallik, advocate Puspa
Raj Koirala and Deputy Inspector General of Nepal Police Niraj
Pun, to investigate into the violence.
Police arrested four cadres of
the JTMM-J faction along with two China-made pistols, two muskets
and 80 rounds of bullets at Banainiya ward-4 in the Saptari district.
Similarly, police arrested three other JTMM-J cadres along with
seven rounds of bullets from Ranjitpur area in the same district.
Security forces arrested two armed
cadres of the JTMM-G from Badgama village in the Saptari district.
One pistol loaded with two rounds of bullets was recovered from
their possession.
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September 21
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JTMM-J cadres detonated an explosion
near the house of Rajendra Bahadur Amatya, district president
of the Nepali Congress, at Maisthan in the Parsa district.
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September 24
|
Child Workers in Nepal Concerned
Centre, a leading child rights non-governmental organisation in
Nepal, has said in a report that 20 children from different villages
in the Kapilvastu district are still missing while at least 100
children have been displaced in the aftermath of the violence
which erupted on September 16. Though the exact number of disappeared
is yet to be verified, the group said that at least 20 children
are among those missing.
Prachanda said that the CPN-Maoist
will not return to the government unless there is a "new political
understanding". He stated that only a new cabinet formed on the
basis of a new understanding would bring the Maoists back to the
government. He also claimed that a new political agreement was
likely within a few days.
The CPN-Maoist and the Communist
Party of Nepal - Marxist-Leninist-Maoist (CPN-MLM) united to become
the second largest party in the interim parliament. Maoist chairman
Prachanda and CPN-MLM chairman Krishna Raj Shrestha signed an
agreement at a function in Kathmandu in the presence of central
leaders of both parties.
YCL cadres assaulted a student
leader of the All Nepal National Free Student Union at Pokhara
in the Kaski district and left him on the banks of the Seti River.
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September 26
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Maoists assaulted and injured
30 cadres of the CPN-UML's Dhading district unit who were campaigning
for the Constituent Assembly elections.
Seven CPN-UML cadres were injured
in the Pida village of Dhading district after the Maoists indiscriminately
assaulted them with iron rods, sticks and other sharp weapons.
The Maoist-affiliated All Nepal
Communication, Printing and Publication Workers' Union disrupted
the collection and publication of advertisements in the Kantipur
Publications.
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September 27
|
Activists of the JTMM-J killed
a civilian, identified as Ainul Miyan Ansari, at Gamharia Parsa
VDC in the Rautahat district, for his alleged involvement in "robbery
and abductions."
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September 30
|
Maoists terminated the ongoing
Constituent Assembly election awareness programmes in the Mahendranagar,
Prakashpur, Bhadgaun Sinuwari, Gautampur, Khanar and Dharan-15
areas of Sunsari district.
Maoists vandalised the house of
Durga Shrestha, a minister during the royal regime. The insurgents,
who were staging a rally in Damauli, also pelted stones at the
district development committee building and a hotel in the area.
They also obstructed traffic on the Prithvi Highway for half an
hour. Later, they staged a gherao of the district administration
office, district development committee and district election office.
Activists of the pro-Maoist All
Nepal Communication and Printing Publication Workers' Union resorted
to vandalism in the Kantipur Publications complex in Minbhawan
and its press at Koteshwore in Kathmandu and disrupted the publication
of the two dailies - Kantipur and The Kathmandu Post
- for the second time in the last one week.
YCL cadres urged a social boycott
of the people indicted by the Rayamajhi Commission Report for
suppressing the Jana Andolan (People’s Revolt) and said
they would take them under control if the government failed to
arrest.
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October 1
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Police arrested four cadres of
the JTMM-G along with some weapons in Janakpur.
A team of five Maoist trade union
activists forced all employees out of the Bharatpur press of the
Kantipur Publications and threatened to kill them if they published
the newspapers - Kantipur and The Kathmandu Post.
The workers also threatened to bomb the Bharatpur office and press
of the publications.
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October 2
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YCL cadres picketed the residences
of former Home Minister Kamal Thapa and former Foreign Minister
Ramesh Nath Pandey and chanted slogans against them.
Maoists have threatened to stop
the voter education programmes in Panchthar district run by the
District Election Office for the Constituent Assembly elections
claiming that they were not consulted while appointing the teachers
who were selected for the voter education programmes.
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October 3
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A group of Maoists abducted senior
leader of the CPN-UML, Yagya Dhwaj Karki, along with his driver
and accountant from Pulchowk in Kathmandu. Maoists have taken
them to an unidentified location and have also captured their
vehicle.
PLA cadres from the third division
at Shaktikhor in Chitwan district staged a blockade of the East-West
Mahendra Highway when police prevented them from carting timber
into their camp at Shaktikhor.
The Baglung chapter of the Maoists
demanded an immediate end to the recruitment to the 23rd brigade
of Nepal Army saying that it was a violation of the comprehensive
peace treaty between the government and the Maoists.
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October 4
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Maoists have resumed collecting
'tourism tax' from foreigners who are visiting Dhaulagiri peak
and upper Dolpa, at Darbang bazaar in the Myagdi district. Police
sources in Darbang said that the cadres of the YCL are forcibly
collecting 15 US dollars from each tourist giving them the receipt
of Magarat Mukti Morcha.
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October 4
|
Cadres of the JTMM-J, led by Sarlahi
district coordinator Ranjit Yadav, shot dead a youth, identified
as Shankar Timilsina, at Ranigunj area in Sarlahi district.
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October 5
|
Maoists abducted Birendra Shah,
the Bara correspondent of Kathmandu-based Nepal F.M. from a place
near Dagiya Basti in Bara district.
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October 6
|
Seven persons were injured when
workers of pro-CPN-UML Nepal Free Food and Beverages Workers'
Union and the pro-Maoist Nepal Industrial Workers' Union clashed
at the Pokhara Noodles Private Ltd in Kaski district.
10 persons were injured in a clash
between the same two groups of workers in the Bhrukuti Pulp and
Paper Mill at Gaindakot in Chitwan district. Three workers of
the pro-UML Nepal Free Chemical and Iron Workers' Union and seven
workers of the pro-Maoist All Nepal Industrial Workers' Union
were also injured in the clash.
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October 7
|
Five cadres of the Kishor Biswas
faction of the MJF and three police personnel were injured in
clashes at Duhabi in the Sunsari district.
Three cadres of the YCL and a
cadre of the Madhesi Mukti Tigers were injured in a clash between
the two groups at Captaingunj VDC-6 in Sunsari district.
Around 500 combatants were found
underage (below 18 years of age) by the United Nations’ Mission
in Nepal monitors in the 7th division of the PLA located in Kailali
district. The underage combatants were found during the second
stage verification conducted at the main cantonment site in Talbandh
and three satellite camps in Sahajpur, Gorange and Badaipur.
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October 8
|
JTMM-G cadres shot dead Ram Babu
Sharma Neupane, the Khutawa Parsauni VDC secretary of Bara district.
JTMM-J cadres abducted three civilians,
Kul Prasad Gautam, Jay Prakash Gautam and Nilkantha Gautam of
Chitwan district, from Dharampur village in the Rautahat district.
JTMM-J called the abductees’ family in Chitwan and demanded NR
2,00,000 as ransom for their release.
Maoists asked various government
offices, VDC, educational institutions and vehicle owners to donate
money to them. Each VDC has been asked to provide NR 15,000 while
employees and teachers have been asked to give a sum equal to
their monthly salary.
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October 9
|
The United Janatantrik Terai Mukti
Morcha cadres abducted and subsequently killed Nagendra Prasad
Yadav, a teacher in the Khuttapiparadhi Lower Secondary School
of Mahottari district.
Prachanda warned of a split in
the SPA if the special session of the interim parliament starting
on October 11 fails to resolve the prevailing political crisis
in the country. He said: "If the special session did not resolve
the crisis in the country, we will detach from the seven party
alliance and launch agitation going to the people… The alliance
could break and a political crisis could surface if we fail to
reach an agreement."
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October 11
|
YCL cadres in Kalikasthan Ghumti
area of Rasuwa district are collecting "compensation" from local
people accused of vandalizing the YCL party office on September
first week. According to local people, the YCL cadres have written
letters to seven persons demanding compensation ranging from NR
50,000 to NR 150,000 respectively.
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October 15
|
YCL cadres captured a house and
property belonging to the chairman of the Rastriya Prajatantra
Party-Rastrabadi, Rajeshwar Devkota, at Aanp-peepal Teenpandit
village in Gorkha district, accusing him of supporting the King
to suppress the Maoists’ peoples’ war and misusing the state funds.
The representative of the United
Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal
(OHCHR-Nepal), Richard Bennett, raised grave human rights concerns
and issues with the Maoist leadership. A press release issued
by the OHCHR-Nepal said that during the meeting with Maoist chairman
Prachanda and senior leader Baburam Bhattarai on October 14, Bennett
raised some specific issues, such as concerns about the rights
to physical integrity, liberty and security, pointing to the use
of violence, abduction and intimidation by the Maoist cadres and
their affiliated organisations.
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October 16
|
Maoists are reportedly forcibly
collecting money from the vehicles plying on the Kathmandu-Manthali
road in the Ramechhap district. Stating that they need assistance
for war, the Maoists are collecting up to NR 5,000 from each loaded
vehicle.
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October 17
|
The CPN-Maoist in the Ilam district
have reportedly made it mandatory for the government servants
to make 'donations' to them, claiming that it is necessary to
start a second Jana Andolan (people’s movement) to establish
a republic in the country. The VDC secretaries in the district
have received verbal or written instructions from Maoists to contribute
NR 20,000 to NR 50,000 from the development budget. Maoists have
also demanded NR 80,000 to NR 130,000 donations from different
tea estates in the district.
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October 18
|
Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula
said the Maoists will return to the government after the Dashain
festival.
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October 19
|
A parliamentary committee formed
to probe the abduction of journalist Birendra Shah of Bara district
revealed that local Maoist leaders were involved in the abduction.
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October 21
|
Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala
said that the Nepali Congress is ready for a commitment proposal
to announce a republic after the Constituent Assembly election,
but is opposed to a fully proportional representation system as
demanded by the Maoists. Koirala also stated that the Maoist proposal
to adopt a fully proportional representation system would not
be accepted by the Nepali Congress under any circumstances.
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October 22
|
Senior Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai
warned of quitting the interim parliament if the special session
resuming October 29 fails to announce the country as a republic.
He told reporters that his party would have no purpose being part
of the interim parliament if its proposal to declare a republic
fails. He said, "If the parties are not trying to save monarchy,
there is no reason why the House cannot announce republic."
Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala
said that there is no immediate plan to bring the Maoists back
into the government.
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October 24
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At least six activists of the
MJF were injured as they were attacked by some members of the
Nepali Congress in Janakpur.
Maoists abducted a district level
leader of Nepali Congress, Ashok Karki, along with his two brothers
and a nephew. Karki’s two brothers are identified as Rana Bahadur
and Dhan Bahadur.
The JTMM-J announced extension
of its unilateral cease-fire till November 17. Jwala Singh told
journalists that the cease-fire has been extended taking into
consideration the approaching festivals - Tihar and Chhath
- which are celebrated by the people in the Terai region.
A group of around 25 YCL cadres
led by one 'Bimal' took over lands belonging to four locals identified
as, Raj Lal Mali, Gona Lal Parmani, Awadh Lal Parmani and another
unidentified local in Kataiya VDC-4 of Saptari district. The YCL
cadres even fenced off the lands after the capture.
YCL cadres assaulted and injured
14 locals of Dhaulagoha VDC in the Kalikot district for idol worshipping
in defiance of YCL orders.
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October 25
|
A group of JTMM-J cadres shot
dead a civilian, Mohammad Taj Miyan, for allegedly spying against
their organisation.
Senior Nepali Congress leader,
Sushil Koirala, warned of a civil war in Nepal as the transition
to peace is getting protracted. "If the transition protracts for
long, the country’s existence could be wiped out. I see a big
chance of a civil war here. The parties, especially the Maoists,
need to understand this," Koirala said.
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October 26
|
Cadres of the JTMM-J led by a
local leader Barud Singh shot dead a civilian, identified as Mukti
Karki, of Dumariya-7 in the Rautahat district
JTMM-J announced that it has resumed
its armed struggle for an autonomous Madhes region after the end
of the 13-day cease-fire.
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October 27
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Maoists abducted three persons
from the Dhatibang VDC area in the Arghakhachi district. Maoist
district secretary Chandra Bahadur Khadka said the three were
taken away for interrogation about an incident that occurred five
years ago.
Armed JTMM-G cadres abducted Suresh
Prasad Sharma, an officer at the Agriculture Development Bank
in Nawalparasi district, from his house at Ragopur VDC-9 of Siraha
district and took him away at gunpoint.
YCL cadres led by their central
committee member, Ashok, seized one Jyoti Farm at Parawanipur
in the Parsa district. They said the farm was captured since it
belongs to Rup Jyoti, one of the ministers during the King's rule.
YCL cadres threatened to kill
three Nepali Congress activists in the Rasuwa district. The three
NC cadres, identified as Bashu Pyakurel, Naranath Sinkhada and
Shankar Lamichhane, were threatened on the charge of vandalising
the YCL's office a few weeks ago.
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October 28
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At a seven party meeting, Prime
Minister Girija Prasad Koirala asked the Maoists to withdraw their
demands of declaring the country a republic before the Constituent
Assembly polls and of holding the polls on a fully proportional
representation basis.
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October 29
|
A group of armed cadres of the
JTMM-J abducted 15 persons and seized five tractors from Chandi
Khola in Bishram VDC -4 of Rautahat district.
JTMM-J cadres abducted Amir Yadav,
secretary of Banainiya VDC of Saptari district. The JTMM-J's district
coordinator, Kailash, claimed that he was abducted on the charges
of committing financial irregularities of VDC budget.
Around 50-60 cadres of the YCL
abducted Rabi Rana, consultant of the Nepali Congress-affiliated
Nepal Tarun Dal, from Sallaghari in Bhaktapur district.
A group of YCL cadres led by Maoists'
Gulmi district committee member Devi Ram Aryal severely assaulted
a Nepali Congress cadre, identified as Amit K.C. of Chhaphile
VDC-8 in the Gulmi district.
The Araniko unit of the Maoist-affiliated
All Nepal Workers’ Association disrupted the highway demanding
that the Araniko highway be declared a peace zone.
The Head of the United Nations’
Mission in Nepal, Ian Martin, has said that there are a significant
number of minors in the Maoist army. ''There are significant numbers
of Maoist soldiers who were found to be below 18 on the qualifying
date,'' Martin told in an interview.
Maoist cadres from the Solukhumbu-Kathmandu
Republic Forum abducted Surendra Kumar Rasaili, president of the
Nepal Dalit Union, a sister organisation of the Nepali Congress,
from Sukedhara area of Kathmandu. The Maoists took Rasaili to
their office and assaulted him after interrogation.
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October 30
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Police arrested 12 YCL cadres
on the charges of extortion and abduction on October 30 from Dhangadhi
district. According to the Senior Superintendent of Police, Ganesh
Rai, the 12 were arrested as they were attempting to abduct a
local restaurant operator. Police also recovered five knives and
seven lathis from their possession.
A senior Maoist leader, Barsha
Man Pun a.k.a. Ananta, warned that the seven party alliance would
break and the nation would face a grave crisis if the Maoist proposals
tabled in the interim parliament is turned down. He said, "If
the Maoist proposal of turning the country a republic through
parliamentary declaration and adopting a fully proportional representation
based electoral system is defeated by voting against it in the
parliament, then there would be no meaning [for Maoist party]
to continue to remain a part of the alliance."
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October 31
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A group of 10 Maoists assaulted
and injured four villagers, including three members of a family,
of Bharapa VDC in the Panchthar district. The Maoists who had
come to settle a family feud assaulted Khadga Bahadur and his
wife, sons Chakra and Man Bahadur and another woman.
Maoists abducted a Nepali Congress
activist, identified as Dabale Lama, from the Bauddha area of
Kathmandu.
Cadres of the Maoist-affiliated
Kirat State Committee are reportedly extorting money from the
trekkers at Ghat in the Solukhumbu district saying that they are
collecting donations as per the decision of their district leadership.
Though the Maoists claim that they are collecting voluntary donations
from tourists, however, a tourist has to pay at least NR 100 to
them. Similarly, the Maoists demand at least NR 50 each from trekking
guides and NR 20 each from porters at Lukla.
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November 1
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Cadres of the YCL captured and
severely assaulted two persons in the premises of Ministry of
Local Development in Kathmandu. Around 10 YCL cadres captured
construction entrepreneur Ram Kumar Ghimire and his neighbour
Shiva Thapa from the premises of the ministry. They severely assaulted
both of them before taking them to their office.
A group of around 50-60 YCL cadres
abducted Dwarika Man Singh Pradhan, a former member of the now-defunct
Rajparishad (Royal Council) in Dolakha district. YCL’s
regional in-charge Bishal Khadka said Pradhan was taken into custody
for investigation on increasing pro-royal activities in the name
of development.
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November 2
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Kantipuronline reports that
Maoists are forcibly collecting 'transportation tax' from vehicles
in the Ramechhap district. The cadres have set up a barrier at
the gateway of the district headquarters Manthali and demand NR
200 each from trucks and up to NR 100 from a bus.
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November 3
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Cadres of the JTMM-G abducted
Surya Prasad Shah, a former VDC chairman in Saptari district.
JTMM-G cadres also seized six bighas of land belonging to Shah
in Ward No 8 in Deuri VDC-7 and also took away a motorbike.
Police arrested two Maoist cadres
identified as Jaya Ram Yadav and Raj Kumar Yadav, central committee
member and district committee member respectively of the Maoist-affiliated
Madheshi Rastriya Mukti Morcha, in possession of a firearm, from
Debahi VDC in Rautahat. Police recovered a pistol and a motorcycle
from the two.
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November 4
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Maoists withdrew their proposal
of immediate declaration of republic from the parliament and supported
the CPN-UML amendment proposals. "We withdraw the proposal on
the issue of republic without deviating from the content and the
stand of their proposal and support the UML’s amendment proposal,"
Maoist spokesperson Krishna Bahadur Mahara said.
Maoists abducted two court employees,
identified as Sashi Ram Bista and Khadka Bahadur Khadka, from
Kholagaun area of the Rukum district while they were on duty.
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November 5
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A report prepared by the Maoists
on the kidnapping of journalist Birendra Shah has revealed that
Shah was murdered by his captors on the same day (October 5) he
was kidnapped. The report which was made public on November 5
stated that Shah was shot and killed by the captors in the evening
of October 05 at a jungle near Sapahi, in the Bara district. The
report states that two Maoist cadres identified as Kundan Foujdar
and Ram Ekwal Sahani shot Shah and were ordered by Lal Bahadur
Chaudhary, the Bara district committee member and area in-charge
of the Maoists, to bury the dead body.
Meanwhile, cadres of the JTMM-J
killed a youth, identified as Dilawar Shah, of Janakpur Municipality-14
in Dhanusha district. JTMM-J’s military commander in Dhanusha
district, Tiger Singh, has owned the responsibility for the killing.
According to Kantipuronline,
Maoist cadres in Lamjung district are extorting money from the
government employees. Maoists have sent letters to the government
offices demanding a total of 12 days' salary from the employees.
Maoists have also deputed teams of two to three of their cadres
to each office with a letter asking the employees to "help them
with donation" and receipts.
At Bhairahawa in the Rupandehi
district, cadres of the YCL seized land and house belonging to
Niranjan Thapa, a former minister during the king's rule, at Bhaiya
area in Siddharthanagar Municipality-6. They also placed their
party flag at the housetop, claiming the seizure.
Cadres of the JTMM-G shot and
injured Hari Parajuli, an overseer with the District Development
Committee in Bara district. JTMM-G’s Bara district chief, Birat,
owned up the responsibility for the attempt on Parajuli’s life.
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November 6
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Cadres of the YCL assaulted leaders
of Nepali Congress in Lamjung district on. Around 15 YCL cadres
attacked four Nepali Congress leaders, identified as, Hari Bhakta
Adhikary, Ram Chandra Adhikary, Gam Prasad Gurung and Ganesh Prasad
Neupane. The NC leaders were attacked when they had gone to attend
the annual function of Sarbodaya higher secondary school in Chandreshwore.
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November 8
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A report of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has
revealed that the latter part of Nepal's insurgency has witnessed
a massive scale of abduction of students and teachers. The UNESCO
study on the impact of conflict on education, which was made public
on November 8, said that 22,000 students and 10,000 teachers were
abducted between 2002 and 2006 while 734 teachers and 1,730 students
were arrested or tortured during that period.
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November 10
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Seven people were injured when
armed cadres of the YCL attacked them at Bhulkechowk in the Sunsari
district. The YCL cadres attacked them after a dispute ensued
over eve-teasing. Eight houses were reportedly damaged in the
attack.
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November 11
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Two persons, including an assistant
sub-inspector of police, were injured when Maoists assaulted them
at Laxminagar in the Doti district.
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November 12
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A Nepali Congress cadre, who was
abducted from the Kapilvastu district by the Maoists on November
2, was found dead. The dead body of Wakil Musalman, who was abducted
from Sohrasa Bazaar in the Patariya VDC area, was recovered from
Ward No. 6 of Lumbini Adarsha VDC.
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November 13
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A group of YCL cadres abducted
one Suresh Khadka from the Mahankal area of Kathmandu accusing
him of looting NR 14,000 from one Deusi-bhailo group during the
Tihar festival on November 12.
Around 10 armed cadres of the
JTMM-J assaulted a CPN-UML cadre, Yogya Bahadur Silwal, with a
knife at his residence at Chankaul VDC, and seriously injured
him.
Maoists and the Federal Limbuwan
State Council are collecting tax since mid-September in the Panchthar
and Raanke section of Illam district along the Mechi Highway.
The amount is reportedly equal to the government’s tax on export
goods from the district.
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November 14
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The government decided to provide
special security to political party leaders and government employees
working in the Terai districts. A Home Ministry press statement
directed the concerned district administrations in Terai districts
to request government employees, political party leaders and activists
to stay within a certain security periphery and make special security
arrangement at offices of public concern like court, Land Revenue,
Land Reform Offices. Likewise, the Ministry also decided to increase
police patrolling and further enhance coordination among security
units in the districts.
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November 15
|
Cadres of the JTMM-J abducted
a civilian, identified as Mohammad Bhutu, from the district headquarters
of Siraha district. The abductors also also took away NR 70,000
cash and a motorcycle from his possession.
Maoists looted the house of a
journalist, identified as Khadgasingh Tharu, at Ladaura of Naubasta-1
in the Banke district.
Cadres of the YCL are reportedly
extorting thousands of rupees from livestock farmers in the Papung
VDC area of Taplejung district. Farmers are being forced to pay
more than what they earn and the YCL has fixed a certain amount
of "tax" per sheep, goat and yak.
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November 16
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MJF chairman, Upendra Yadav, said
that the forum is against the demand for a separate Madhesi state.
He said: "We oppose the concept of a separate Madhes. What we
want is an autonomous Tarai within a federal Nepal."
The CPN-Maoist listed a range
of new demands, including immediate reshuffling of the interim
cabinet, dissolution of the Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction,
and early integration of the PLA into the Nepal Army. Maoist leader
Baburam Bhattarai said that the government must be restructured
as early as possible in order to make it more representational.
He demanded that the peace ministry be replaced by a powerful
Peace Commission represented by all the parties.
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November 17
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JTMM-J cadres detonated a bomb
at a petrol pump at Dewangunj in the Sunsari district since its
proprietor, Deep Narayan Bhagat, had spied on the group.
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November 18
|
YCL cadres abducted six persons,
including doctors and directors of the Biratnagar-based Nobel
Medical College and tortured them brutally for 14 hours at an
unidentified location near Kamidanda in the Kavre district.
In the Sarlahi district, 63 VDC
secretaries resigned citing the prevalent insecurity due to extortion
and threats by various armed groups and the indifference of the
authorities.
Civil servants and teachers in
the Siraha district decided to shut down all government and non-government
offices and educational institutions in the district for 11 days,
starting from November 19 after their talks with the district
administration ended inconclusively. The two unions are demanding
guarantee of security for the government employees and teachers
in the district.
Maoists captured three houses
and 10 katthas (around 36, 382 square feet) of land belonging
to a former royalist minister Kamal Thapa.
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November 19
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All 98 VDC secretaries in the
Rautahat district announced their resignation complaining of threats
of physical attack, intimidation and extortion.
70 VDC secretaries in the Bara
district rendered their resignation because of the growing security
threats to them from the various armed groups.
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November 20
|
YCL cadres abducted three passengers
and assaulted them at Bandre in the Nuwakot district. They also
looted their mobile phones and NR 25,000 in cash.
The Maoists assaulted a journalist
for defying their strike in the Siraha district, called to protest
the arrest of two of their cadres.
CPN-Maoist announced the formation
of separate teams to mobilise funds in the Kathmandu Valley, Gandaki,
Lumbini, Biratnagar, Magarat and Tharuwan regions. The party said
that the teams would "jointly work" with contractors, first class
hotels, business companies and trading firms for mobilising financial
resources for the party.
In the Bara district, 91 VDC secretaries
tendered a collective resignation, citing the government’s inability
to guarantee security to civil servants in the Terai region. The
secretaries said that they were bound to resign as extortion,
abduction, murder and attack on family members of the civil servants
by different armed groups in the district had not stopped and
the government has not taken any effective measures for their
security.
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November 21
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Maoists seized around 95 bighas
of land belonging to Sewantaraj Adhikari and Pramod Kumar Niraula
of Hasandaha-1, Dandaraj Lamichhane of Sidraha-6 and the land
belonging to the local trust in the Morang district.
CPN-Maoist chairman Prachanda
warned that his party will offer the CPN-UML to lead the government
if the present government does not implement the proposals on
declaration of republic and proportional representation election
system passed by the parliament.
APF personnel arrested
eight cadres of the JTMM-G from Majhauliya VDC-3 area in the Siraha
district on when they were making plans to carry out a robbery
in a nearby village.
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November 22
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Maoists in the Morang district
decided to resume their 'kangaroo courts' and revive their parallel
government as tension between their party and the government has
increased in recent days.
Maoists vandalised four vehicles
near Chadranigahpur in the Rautahat district on the second day
of their indefinite strike.
Police arrested 36 CPN-Maoist
cadres, including cadres of the YCL, in the Rautahat district,
where the Maoists organised an indefinite strike since November
20 demanding action against the guilty of Gaur Massacre.
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November 23
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The Indian Ambassador to Nepal,
Shiva Shankar Mukherjee, refuted reports that criminals active
along the Terai region in Nepal are based across the border in
India. A statement from the Indian embassy in Nepal stated that,
"This perception is totally misplaced." Mukherjee said that the
Government of India and the governments of the concerned Indian
States co-operate actively with Nepali authorities in controlling
criminal activities across the open Nepal-India border, adding
that India has substantially provided communication equipment
to increase the capacity of the Nepal Police to tackle the problem.
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November 24
|
Four Maoists and few villagers
were injured when Maoists clashed with locals on a petty issue
at Manthali, the headquarters of Ramechhap district. Later, the
Maoists also clashed with the police who reached the incident
site to contain the violence.
Secretaries of all the 76 VDCs
in the Mahottari district left their VDCs because of the demand
of money by the armed groups and the threat to their lives. According
to VDC Secretary Rights Protection Centre, all the secretaries
of 76 VDCs in the district left for the district headquarters
after they received letters asking for a huge amount of money
as donation, and life threats if they failed to pay demanded sum.
They also decided to resign collectively if they were targeted
even in the district headquarters.
In an emergency meeting called
by the Nepal Association of Tour Operators (NATO), the tourism
associations of Nepal raised ‘serious concern’ about the continuing
Maoists’ donation drive and planned to meet the Prime Minister
and the Home Minister to apprise them of the deteriorating law
and order situation and complain them about the Maoist’s persistent
demands for money. "The Maoists are asking for huge amount of
money, between NR 20,000 to NR 2.5 million from the tourism entrepreneurs
and associations and issuing threats if the donation demand is
rejected," a business entrepreneur said.
Prachanda also said that all the
past agreements have now become meaningless and that it is necessary
to move ahead by forging a new understanding. "All the past agreements
have been repeatedly flouted and now they have lost their meaning.
So we have to forge a new understanding while still keeping the
seven-party unity intact," he said.
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November 25
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Maoists attacked a Nepali Congress
leader and the treasurer of the Raniwan VDC in the Okhaldunga
district, Dev Bahadur Shrestha, and injured him seriously.
Maoist chairman Prachanda said
that the Constituent Assembly elections should be held only after
the integration of the PLA into the Nepal Army and the restructuring
of the state.
Cadres of the CPN-Maoist seized
the house of a Nepali Congress leader and chairman of Yasam VDC
in the Okhaldunga district, Megh Bahadur Karki.
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November 26
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Senior Maoist leader C. P. Gajurel
a.k.a. Gaurav warned that his party will not participate in the
Constituent Assembly polls unless the monarchy is abolished before
that. "Without abolishing monarchy, Constituent Assembly election
is unimaginable. CPN-Maoist will not participate in the election
as long as King is there," Gajurel said.
Another senior leader and a Central
Committee member of the CPN-Maoist, Mohan Baidhya a.k.a. Kiran,
admitted that the on-going criminal activities of the YCL have
defamed the party and directed the YCL cadres to immediately stop
such activities. He said that the acts of extortion, killing and
kidnappings being carried out by the YCL cadres were against the
decision of the Central Committee.
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November 27
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Senior Maoist leader Babu Ram
Bhattarai said that the party would not give up the option of
going back to the jungle if their demands are not fulfilled. "If
our demands for a fully proportional electoral system and proclamation
of a republic from parliament are not met we will go back to war,"
he said.
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November 28
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In the Gorkha district, Maoists
eized about 35 muris (1750 Kilograms) of harvested rice from farmlands
located in the Palungtar VDC-8 area, belonging to Rajeshwor Devkota,
chairman of the Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Rastriyabadi.
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November 29
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The CPN-Maoist has reportedly,
started a rice collection drive in the Bardiya district. It has
sent letters to farmers asking them to donate between 10 and 100
quintals of rice to the Party. The Maoists have also threatened
to kill those farmers who are unwilling to make "donations." Maoists
also made similar demands from the farmers in the Banke district.
They have demanded over one quintal of harvested rice per farmer
in the name of 'seasonal donations' from the local farmers.
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November 30
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Cadres of the JTMM-J abducted
an activist of the Janamorcha Nepal, identified as Pralhad Pokhrel,
from Lahan in the Siraha district.
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December 2
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Police arrested three cadres of
the JTMM-J in the Siraha district. They were identified as JTMM-J
Siraha district in-charge Prem Paswan a.k.a. Bijaya, Sushil Mandal
and Nagendra Paswan.
Secretaries of over 3,000 VDC
across the country decided to hold nation-wide strikes to protest
against the government’s indifference towards protecting them
from atrocities by the armed groups in the Terai region.
A JTMM-J cadre, Jaswanta Singh,
threatened to kill three journalists, Shiva Puri, Prabhat Jha
and Sailendra Gupta, in the Rautahat district.
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December 4
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Maoists captured a house owned
by one Bholaman Shrestha at Khandbari-1 in the Sankhuwasabha district
on an unspecified date accusing him of being a feudal. They further
declared that all the houses and lands belonging to Shrestha in
the district were under their control.
The Nepal Sadbhavana Party unveiled
its militant youth wing called Madhesh Raksha Bahini (Madhesh
Security Brigade) at Birgunj in the Parsa district. Clad in sky-blue
jackets, 122 cadres of the Bahini held a parade in Birgunj. The
party’s district secretary Shiva Patel said the cadres were trained
in self-defence tactics like using lathis, judo and karate and
claimed that there were 23,000 such members across the country.
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December 5
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CPN-Maoist cadres assaulted and
severely injured a foreign tourist, identified as Steve Jan from
Switzerland, at Birethanti in the Kaski district as he did not
pay the ‘tourist fee’ as demanded by them. Maoists reportedly
demanded NR 1800 from Steve and assaulted him with bamboo sticks
when he refused to pay them the money. Steve also disclosed that
the Maoists are charging each tourist NR 100 per day.
Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitaula
revealed that only around 19,000 combatants of the PLA would be
declared eligible to be included into the national army. Sitaula
further said that a committee constituted by the Council of Ministers
upon receiving the final verification report from the UNMIN would
take necessary decision on the future of the PLA.
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December 6
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Police arrested over 45 persons affiliated to
various armed groups operating in the Terai districts along with
a number of unauthorised weapons from them.
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December 7
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CPN-Maoist cadres have reportedly forced the
family of Til Bahadur Khadka in the Tulasipur municipality of
the Dang district to live out of home for the last four months
allegedly for not paying them a donation of NR 1.5 million.
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December 8
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Two persons were injured in a clash between cadres
of the CPN-UML and the YCL in Bhojpur district.
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December 9
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YCL chairman Ganeshman Pun warned of forming
a parallel government if the Nepali Congress disagrees to hold
the Constituent Assembly polls on the basis of a proportional
electoral system. Pun said that "Prime Minister Girija Prasad
Koirala's right to stay as a Prime Minister will end if the proposal
of proportional electoral system passed by the special session
of the parliament was not implemented… If Prime Minister Koirala
did not resign in such condition, a parallel government of republicans
will be formed."
All the VDC offices remained closed across the
nation due to a strike called by the VDC secretaries to protest
against the government’s failure to provide them security.
Cadres of the JTMM-J killed a civilian, identified
as Prem Raj Thapa, in Biratnagar of Morang district. JTMM-J Morang
in-charge Kuber Singh confirmed that Thapa was killed by his cadres
for cheating local youths in the name of sending abroad for employment.
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December 10
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Maoists threatened to kill a CPN-UML activist
Agni Prasad Budhathoki, a resident of Syabrumba VDC in the Panchthar
district, if he did not pay them NR 150,000 donation within three
days.
Senior Nepali Congress leader and Minister for
Science, Technology and Environment Mahantha Thakur and three
other Members of parliament resigned from their respective posts
and interim parliament saying that the move was necessary to bring
the Madhesi "revolt to a logical conclusion." Citing same reasons,
Hridayesh Tripathi of the Nepal Sadbhavana Party (Anandi Devi),
Mahendra Prasad Yadav of the CPN-UML and Ram Chandra Raya of the
Rastriya Prajatantra Party also tendered resignations as MPs to
the Speaker.
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December 11
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Police arrested and subsequently released a Maoist,
identified as Devendra Poudel, of Amalchaur-1 in the Baglung district
with a pistol in his possession.
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December 12
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Cadres of the YCL obstructed traffic in the Gaighat
bazaar of Udayapur district for two hours demanding action against
the Armed Police Force personnel who assaulted their activists
on December 11.
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December 13
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The CPN-Maoist gave a 48-hour ultimatum to Prime
Minister Girija Prasad Koirala saying they would start a new movement
from December 16 and seek to reshuffle the cabinet if their demands
were not met.
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December 15
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A meeting of the top leaders agreed
to hold the CA election within March-April 2008. As per the agreement,
CA seats elected under proportional representative system have
been increased to 335, fixing the total number of seats at 601.
The number of seats elected under first-past-the-pole system will
be 240 while the number of CA members to be nominated by the Prime
Minister has been increased to 26 from 17. The leaders also agreed
to amend the interim constitution, incorporating ‘democratic republic’,
a provision to be endorsed by the first sitting of the CA.
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December 16
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Special Task Force personnel arrested
10 cadres of the Madhesi Mukti Tigers, including a woman, from
Biratnagar in the Morang district. A Chinese pistol, five mobile
sets, a motorcycle, and their donation pads, among others, were
recovered from them.
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December 17
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The United Madheshi Front (UMF),
comprising the Rajendra Mahato-led Nepal Sadbhawana Party and
the MJF led by Upendra Yadav, announced nationwide protests to
press for the rights of the Madheshi people from December 26.
The UMF stated that it would hold protest programmes in the Terai
towns such as Biratnagar, Birgunj, Janakpur, Bhairahawa, Butwal
and Nepalgunj from mid-December to mid-January 2008.
A group of around 20 armed cadres
of the Madheshi Mukti Tigers (MMT) attacked a police post at Madar
in the Siraha district. Siraha district Superintendent of Police,
Mingmar Lama, said that the MMT cadres detonated three socket
bombs and fired from a homemade pistol towards police. However,
no casualties were reported.
A team of the Special Task Force
arrested two MMT cadres, identified as Ashok Yadav and Chandra
Dev Yadav, from the Koshi area in Saptari district along with
a bundle of letter head, some documents and donation receipts
of the MMT.
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December 18
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Cadres of the JTMM shot dead two
persons, identified as Pashupati Shrestha and Gajendra Shresth,
in the Saptari district.
Maoists have reportedly demanded
huge quantities of rice as donation from local farmers in the
Sankhuwasabha district. They have also threatened to take strong
action against those who fail to 'donate' rice to their party
in time.
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December 21
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Kantipuronline reports that
the Maoist-affiliated All Nepal Auto Mechanic Workers Union has
shut down offices of the Sipradi Trading Private Ltd, an authorised
vehicle distributor, in the capital Kathmandu since December 5.
Demanding the reinstatement of the two dismissed staff who had
not completed their probationary period, the Union padlocked the
company’s head office and service station at Naikap; showroom
at Thapathali; as well as a service centre at Teku, Soaltee Mode
and a spare parts showroom at Kalanki.
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December 23
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The Seven Party Alliance signed
a 22-point deal agreeing to declare the country a federal democratic
republic through the parliament, subject to implementation by
the first meeting of elected Constituent Assembly.
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December 24
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Maoist chairman Prachanda said
that his party will rejoin the interim government within a day
or two. "We will return to the government in a day or two.
There may be new faces... or we may even send the same persons
to the cabinet," he said.
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December 26
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11 PLA cadres from Khairmara and
Solu-Salleri brigades broke away from their outfit to join the
JTMM-J. The cadres, led by the Solu-Salleri brigade commander
Shikhar, complained that there was no ‘intra-party justice’ in
the outfit.
Police arrested Dinesh Sah, the
JTMM-J military commander, and an Indian national identified as
Binod Kumar Yadav from Bhrikutichowk in Biratnagar on the charges
of supplying weapons to the cadres of the outfit involved in the
murder and abduction people belonging to the Pahade community
in the Terai region.
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December 27
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YCL cadres in Kavre summoned R.
L. Sramajibi, editor of Kavre Times, to furnish a statement
over a road accident that occurred three years ago.
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December 28
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Nepal turned into a federal democratic
republic with the passage of the third constitution amendment
bill by the parliament. As per the amendment, the Prime Minister
will bear all the responsibilities of the head of the state until
the CA election. A simple majority of the CA will implement the
federal democratic republican order.
Madheshi leaders from various
parties, who had resigned from the parliament as well as their
parties, have announced the formation of a new party, the Terai
Madhesh Loktantrik Party under the leadership of former minister
Mahanta Thakur. In a special function held in the capital, Thakur
said, "Our aim is to achieve republican, democratic, federal Nepal
and Terai-Madhesh - One Province with right to self determination."
He said the new party is not against CA, but would like to see
concerns of Madheshi people addressed first.
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December 30
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The CPN-Maoist rejoined the interim
cabinet after three and half months of their walkout from the
government. Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala appointed five
CPN-Maoist nominees, including Pampha Bhusal as Minister for Women,
Children and Social Welfare, Krishna Bahadur Mahara as Minister
for Information and Communication, Dev Gurung as the Local Development
Minister, Hisila Yami as the Physical Planning and Works Minister
and Matrika Yadav as the Forest and Soil Conservation Minister.
MJF chief Upendra Yadav called
for a fourth amendment in the constitution saying that the third
amendment was inadequate to address concerns of Madheshi people.
Yadav said that the third amendment had been passed by the parliament
just to appease the Maoists. He said that the fourth amendment
should ensure a constitutional provision stating there would be
autonomous states.
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December 31
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Seven cadres of the All Nepal
National Free Students Union affiliated to the CPN-UML and a former
VDC secretary were injured when the YCL cadres attacked them during
a programme at Salmechakal in the Kavre district.
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