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Tens of Thousands of
Maoists in UN Camps
(February 26, 2007)
U.N. officials revealed
that 30,852 former Maoist
rebels in Nepal registered
themselves in relief camps
and submitted 3,428
weapons as part of a peace
process to end conflict in
the Himalayan state.<More>
U.S. Aid to Nepal to
Continue
(February 08, 2007)
The U.S. will continue
to provide financial aid
to the interim Nepali
government even though
it has accommodated the
terrorists Maoists in
the administration.<More>
Nepal King Public Appearance
(January 24, 2007)
Since being sidelined by the
Seven Party Alliance (SPA),
Nepali King Gyanendra made his
first appearance in connection
with a Hindu festival Vasanta
Panchami but government
officials and politicians who
traditionally the attend the
festivities remained aloof.<More>
Nepal Maoists Start
Disarmament
(January 20, 2007)
About 350 combatants including
150 women handed over their
arms to UN officials as part
of a deal that granted them a
1/3rd of Parliament seats and
a Deputy Prime Minister post
so they can work on elections
in June.<More>
Maoist Join Nepali Government
(January 17, 2007)
In a landmark event, Nepal’s
Maoist insurgents gave up
violence and joined the
interim government and assumed
“responsibility to conduct the
elections for the constituent
assembly” as part of a peace
deal with mainstream political
parties. <More>
Maoists Block Envoy
Designate to India
(December 25, 2006)
Nepali Maoists and political
groups supporting them said
that they will block Prime
Minister Girija Prasad
Koirala’s envoy designate for
India, an obscure retired
diminutive woman who is also a
niece of the PM claiming that
the decision was taken without
consulting them.<More>
Maoists Protest Envoy Nominations
(December 21, 2006)
After reaching a landmark deal with the political
parties that would essentially nullify any powers to
King Gnanendra, albeit temporarily, Nepali Maoist
guerrillas called for a nationwide strike to protest
against the government’s nomination of new ambassadors
to 13 foreign capitals.<More>
Nepal Close to Deal
(December 15, 2006)
Nepal’s ruling coalition and Maoists guerrillas say
that they are close to an understanding on an interim
constitution and power-sharing even as a new poll showed
that the Nepalese overwhelmingly wanted the marginalized
King Gnanendra in power.<More>
Nepal Arms Treaty
(November 29, 2006)
After much suspense and debate, The Nepal Government and
Maoist guerrillas finally signed a tripartite agreement
with United Nations for the monitoring and management of
arms and armies while Nepal goes into a constituent
assembly and elections.<More>
Nepal-Maoist Arms Accord
(November 06, 2006)
In a welcome development, the Government of Nepal (GoN)
seems to have reached an understanding with the Maoists
where the terrorists will be confined to cantonments in
7 locations and their arms escrowed in designated places.<More>
Maoist Meet Focuses on Coordination
(October 03, 2006)
In an ominous note, the fourth conference of the
Coordination Committee of Maoist Parties and
Organizations of South Asia (CCOMPOSA) in Nepal
resolved to better coordinate to turn South Asia
“into a flaming field of people’s upsurges.”<More>
Maoists Force Children to March for Peace
(September 22, 2006)
Maoist guerrillas and their once-banned ultra-leftist
student union forced children, some as young as 10, to
attend a 5-hour rally under scorching sun listening to
diatribe against US imperialism and Indian expansionism.
<More>
Nepali Maoist Protest Indian
‘Arms’
(September 15, 2006)
An unsubstantiated report in a
local paper claiming a convoy
of trucks carrying arms for
the Nepal Army provoked the
Nepali Maoists to call for a
strike, block main arteries,
burn tires, and disrupt
transportation.<More>
Disappearances on Rise in South Asia
(September, 06 2006)
As nations of South Asia fight terrorism, Amnesty International (AI) says
that “enforced disappearances” of people is growing and while “new patterns”
are emerging from Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><More>
Nepal Has a New Draft Constitution
(August 29, 2006)
A team of legal and political experts in Nepal have
drafted a new lob-sided Constitution that will withdraw
many privileges of the King and retaining the right of
the Maoist terrorists that does not necessarily create
stability to one of the world’s poorest nations.<More>
Maoist Terrorists Hunt Indians
(August 02, 2006)
With increased Indian insistence on the disarming of
Maoist terrorist groups in Nepal, hospitality sector
employees and businessmen of Indian origin have become
prime targets for extortion and death threats causing a
large exodus back to their homeland.<More>
Nepal Cuts King’s Last Link with Army
(July 27, 2006)
The interim Government in
Nepal abolished the Military Secretariat, seen as the King’s last link
with the Army, and also set up a Security Coordination Office (SCO) at
the Defense Ministry replacing the King Gnanendra as the Supreme
Commander.<More>
Nepal Talks Deferred Briefly
(July 24, 2006)
Talks between the interim Government and Nepalese terrorist group was
deferred but to meet in the near future and focus on the interim
constitution content, constituent assembly formation process, constituencies
redraw plan, and arms management.<More>
Nepal Cuts Palace Purse
(July 13, 2006)
In a further public humiliation
for the vastly unpopular King
Gnanendra, Nepali Finance Minister
Ram Sharan Mahat proposed a $1.9
billion budget for fiscal year
2006-2007 that included a massive
cut for the royal palace
expenditure and purse.<More>
Nepal Terrorists Accuse US of
Interference
(July 06, 2006)
Nepalese terrorists accused the US
of undermining the peace process
underway in the landlocked
mountain nation citing examples of
American threats to cut aid
guerrillas join the interim
government without giving up their
weapons first.<More>
Nepal Terrorists Want Merger with
Army
(June 26, 2006)
Nepal Maoist leaders are visiting
Katmandu after briefing cadre in
the West on June 16 dialogue and
will meet Prime Minister Girija
Prasad Koirala and other prominent
intelligentsia ahead of the next
summit probing opinions and
assessing space for their
movement.<More>
Nepal Cancels Terror Cases,
Releases Terrorists
(June 13, 2006)
Nepal has announced that it will
release all terrorists detained
under the Terrorist and Disruptive
Activities (Control and
Punishment) Ordinance (TADO) and
cancel all pending cases to
placate the terrorist elements
with which it is negotiating
peace.<More>
India Offers Rs.1000 cr Deal to
Nepal
(June 12, 2006)
India offer visiting Nepal Prime
Minister Girija Prasad Koirala a
deal worth Rs. 1000 crores (USD
217 million) that would include a
one time grant, waiver of dues for
supplied military equipment,
reworking of loans, and subsidized
fertilizer.<More>
Nepal Terrorists Caution 'House
supremacy'
(June 09, 2006)
Alarmed by the bonhomie shown to
Nepal Prime Minister Girija Koirala,
terrorists say that it is concerned
by the "slow pace" of talks and
warned of "further bloodshed" if the
seven-party alliance (SPA) made the
Parliament the supreme body in the
country.<More>
Nepal PM in India this Week
(June 06, 2006)
The newly reinstated Nepal Prime Minister G
P Koirala will travel to New Delhi on
Wednesday seeking India's cooperation in
restoring peace, assistance for economic
reconstruction, and resolving the
insurgency that is tearing his country
apart.<More>
Nepal, Terrorists Agree on Code
(June 05, 2006)
The newly installed Nepali Government and
the Maoist terrorists have finally agreed
on a 25-point code of conduct to move their
dialogue process forward and agreed to work
together to form a new Constituent Assembly
elections. <More>
Nepal Humiliates King Even More
(June 01, 2006)
The recently reconvened Nepali Parliament went on
another revenge spree proposing various measures that
will minimize the King’s stature even more and in a
move seen to placate the Maoist terrorists, it ordered
the release of all terrorists in jails.<More>
7 Nepali Peacekeepers Abducted in Congo
(May 30, 2006)
Nearly 2 weeks after Islamic rebels abducted and
killed 12 Nepali workers, Congo terrorists have
abducted 7 Nepali peacekeeping soldiers killing one of
them and maiming 3.<More>
Hindu Groups Protest in Nepal
(May 25, 2006)
Hindu groups in the
southern industrial city Birgunj protested violently
against the reinstated Parliament’s decision to
clip the King Gnanendra’s powers
state<More>
Nepal Clips King’s Powers
(May 19, 2006)
The recently reinstated Nepalese Parliament
unanimously voted on a resolution to severely curb the
rights of the King, make the country a Republic,
abrogate his legal immunity, and aggrandize power over
the Army, court, and Constitution to itself.<More>
Anti-King Resolution Stalls
(May 16, 2006)
Nepal’s bid to pass an anti-King resolution stalled as
disagreements within the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) on
what should be included and what excluded.<More>
Nepal’s Unstable Roadmap to Peace
(May 15, 2006)
Nepal’s Maoist terrorist leader “Pachanda” announced
that he would lead his group in negotiations with the
other members of the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) in a
roadmap that that has disaster written on every bit of
it.<More>
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