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	What Chance for Peace? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nepal’s rate of child mortality under 5 years, at 109 deaths per 1,000, is the fifth worst in the entire Asian region (only Cambodia, Laos, Pakistan and Burma are worse).
		The resistance of Nepal’s elite to land reform, a continual opposition to genuine trade union rights in the enterprises it controlled and rampant corruption all added to the sense of alienation of an increasingly marginalised and impoverished general population.
		If Nepal’s mainstream political parties could not alleviate the situation it was not simply a matter of their failures or propensity to fight amongst themselves (where in the world is this otherwise?), but the result of the economic elite’s refusal to countenance any real change to their privileges and power.
	www.asianfoodworker.net /nepal/041005peace.htm (1083 words)

	news-nepal
		Nine years of civil war in Nepal have cost over 11,000 lives and established a pattern of calculated and deliberate war crimes by both the state and Maoist rebels.
		Nepal was trapped in a three-way power struggle between discredited democrats, the Maoists and the palace and there were violent street demonstrations against the King’s growing power.
		Nepal is not a party to the second Additional Protocol of 1977, which contains more detailed provisions applicable in civil wars, nor to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
	www.crimesofwar.org /onnews/news-nepal.html (2869 words)

	Nepal National - Nepal News
		Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), the central bank of Nepal, predicted that Nepal was unlikely to enjoy 5 percent economic growth this year as targeted by the government, local Annapurna daily reported...
		Nepal's King Gyanendra has welcomed the signing of a peace deal between Maoist rebels and the government.The agreement is aimed at ending a decade-long civil war that has claimed more than 12,500...
		Nepal has entered a new era as insurgents and the government signed a peace deal ending more than a decade of civil war that has claimed at least 12,500...
	www.nepalnational.com /index.php/ct/10/id/7399985502eaed63 (1694 words)

	A Leftist Youth Journal Based in the U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A civil war has been fought between the Maoist rebels (CPNM) and the RNA during the last 10 years, in which an estimated 11,000 people have been killed, the majority of them killed by government forces, although both sides have committed atrocities during the war.
		War initially broke out when the RNA attempted to crush rebellion in rural areas of Nepal, followed by the initiation of the People's War, as it is called, by the CPNM.
		Nepal's location is of extreme strategic importance, as it is located between the two fastest growing economies in the world, and, potentially, the two greatest threats to American hegemony in the world, India and China.
	www.lefthook.org /Politics/Baake041605.html (1044 words)

	Peace deal ends Nepal civil war
		Kathmandu - The impoverished Himalayan nation of Nepal entered a new era on Tuesday as Maoist insurgents and the central government signed a peace deal ending a decade of civil war that has claimed at least 12 500 lives.
		Koirala said Nepal, one of the 10 poorest countries in the world squeezed between China and India and moving from southern low-land rice fields to the world's highest mountain, had "entered into a new era".
		Nepal has entered into a new era and it has opened the door for peace.
	www.news24.com /News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2033871,00.html (426 words)

	Nepal's Maoist Civil War on the World Terrorist Map
		Till last November, it was a war theatre of antiquated rifles and home made "pressure cooker" bombs, with the rebels pitted against a poorly armed police.
		US Ambassador to Nepal, Mike Malinowski, has denounced the rebels as "fundamentally the same as terrorists elsewhere, be the members of the Shining Path, Pol Pot's people or Al Qeda".
		In 1996, when the Maoists put forward their 40 point agenda on 'nationalism, democracy and livelihood', there was sympathy for the frustration with a multiparty democracy that has produced 11 governments in 12 years and made little impact on the structures of poverty and discrimination.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Nepal/NepalMaoists_TerroristMap.html (757 words)

	Nepal’s Civil War: The Conflict Resumes (Human Rights Watch, 28-3-2006)
		The possibility of the RNA being barred from future operations because of abuses by its troops in the civil war seems to have had a salutary effect, as have the conditions imposed by the U.S. Congress on military assistance.
		It was also during this period that Nepal took on the ignominious distinction of having the highest number of new cases of “disappearances” reported to the United Nations in the world, some 1,700, of which the vast majority (1,300) was blamed on government security forces.
		Nepal’s main political parties, as well as much of Nepali civil society, have urged the government to participate in a mutual ceasefire in order to decrease the conflict’s toll on civilians and foster possible peace talks.
	hrw.org /english/docs/2006/03/28/nepal13078.htm (4616 words)

	Nepal Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nepal Civil War was a conflict between monarchist government forces and Maoist rebels in Nepal which lasted from 1996 until 2006.
		Under the aegis of the global War on Terrorism and with the stated goal of averting the development of a "failed state" that could serve as a source of regional and international instability, the United States, European Union and India, among other nations, have provided extensive military and economic aid to the Nepalese government.
		It is worth noting that both sides in the civil war have been observed using British arms dating from World War I and World War II, notably the Lee-Enfield rifle, the Bren Machine gun, and the Sten Submachine gun, as well as 1950s vintage AK-47 rifles and FN SLR rifles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nepal_Civil_War (3297 words)

	Nepal’s civil war: from security to politics Chandra D. Bhatta - openDemocracy
		The politics of Nepal in the first five months of 2005 have been dominated by a spiralling series of events: King Gyanendra’s coup in February, the state of emergency and the imprisonment of political leaders and activists.
		Nepal emerged as a state in the mid-18th century when the Gorkha warrior Prithvi Narayan Shah unified a series of petty principalities.
		Civil society, political parties and even the king have failed to bring these actors into a common platform to address the Maoist problem, despite the international community’s genuine interest in reinstalling and defending democracy in Nepal.
	www.opendemocracy.net /democracy-protest/nepal_politics_2531.jsp (2008 words)

	Terre des hommes - TDH Nepal - Tdh Links
		Nepal’s royal government is inviting confrontation by forcing through, amidst a new crackdown on civil liberties, municipal elections on 8 February 2006 which will not be free, fair or credible.
		The suspension of all civil liberties in the wake of the royal coup and the purely militaristic strategy chosen to deal with the Maoist insurgency have led to an intensification of the armed conflict and a sharp deterioration of an already dramatic human rights situation.
		In the Nepali government’s war with Maoist insurgents, the number of enforced disappearances—cases in which people are taken into custody and authorities then deny all responsibility or knowledge of their fate or whereabouts—has reached crisis proportions.
	www.tdhnepal.org /html/links.htm (2571 words)

	Nepal's children suffer in civil war \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited
		Nepal's civil war has seen a significant increase in violence against children, with murder, illegal detention and rape being used as weapons by both sides, according to a new report by Amnesty International.
		Nepal's war is now the bloodiest in Asia, with more than 12,000 lives lost in less than a decade.
		With half of Nepal's population living on less than a dollar a day and many parts of the country facing acute food shortages, Amnesty says there "is little doubt that many more children are dying from poverty and disease exacerbated by the conflict".
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,1536087,00.html (389 words)

	The Civil War Erodes Lives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Background on Nepal -Civil War - Impact of Poverty - Conditions Where Children are From
		Nepal was convulsed by civil war from 1996 until this year.
		During the war, Nepal enjoyed the distinction of being # 1 in the world for 'disappeared', about 2/3 last seen in the custody of the 'security forces.
	www.himalayanchildren.org /nepal/political.htm (362 words)

	Nepal's civil war ends as Maoists, government ink peace deal
		Nepal's Maoist insurgents and interim government signed a landmark peace accord to end a decade of violence that has claimed at least 12,500 lives in the impoverished Himalayan nation.
		Impoverished Nepal entered a new era after Maoist rebels and the government signed a peace deal ending more than a decade of civil war that has claimed at least 12,500 lives.
		Under the deal, the rebels are to end their "people's war" aimed at overthrowing the monarchy by force, join an interim government and enter parliament.
	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=152446 (846 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Peace deal ends Nepal's civil war
		"This ends the more than one decade of civil war in the country," Prachanda said after the deal was signed.
		"The war is over," declared the chief government negotiator, Krishna Sitaula, as he read out the agreement reached after tortuous negotiations.
		In a celebratory atmosphere, the peace agreement was made public at a large gathering of politicians, diplomats and civil society leaders in Kathmandu.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/6169746.stm (480 words)

	International Nepal Solidarity Network » The brutal trap of Nepal’s civil war
		Since 1996 it has been gripped by a brutal civil war between a poorly trained military and police with a terrible record of human rights abuses, and a retrograde Maoist movement that makes few apologies for its equally brutal killings and systematic intimidation and extortion of poor Nepali villagers.
		The army frequently kills those they believe are Maoists or sympathizers and then claims they died in "armed encounters." According to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Nepal had the highest number of "disappearances" in the world in 2002 and 2003.
		While the government suggests that such steps would weaken its fight against the Maoists, the greater danger may be the disaffection that the behavior of government forces is creating in the general public.
	insn.org /?p=47 (941 words)

	Newsvine - civil-war (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is drawing a parallel between the Iraq war and the Civil War.
		A civil war is a war within one country in which; (a) two political factions are contesting by force of arms to control the government of the country; or; (b) one region of the country is trying by force of arms to become separately independent from the rest of the country.
		The Middle East is on the verge of three civil wars -- in Iraq, Israel and Lebanon -- unless strong action is taken urgently by the international community, Jordan's King Abdullah warned on Sunday.
	www.newsvine.com /civil-war (1353 words)

	BHARAT RAKSHAK MONITOR: Volume 4(4)
		Middle class urbanites remarked that Nepal had gone from the Middle Ages to the 21st century in the span of one generation.
		Richard Andrew Nickson, a Latin America specialist and former advisor to the Government of Nepal, predicted in the early 90's, before the insurgency, that the outcome of Nepal's Maoist movement depends on the outcome of democracy in Nepal.
		Since the start of the civil war, India has provided sophisticated arms for counter insurgency and jungle warfare and loaned 2 military helicopters fitted with machine guns for counter insurgency operations in isolated regions.
	www.bharat-rakshak.com /MONITOR/ISSUE4-4/bahroo.html (5043 words)

	The civil war in Nepal intensifies
		If on the other hand the struggle in Nepal were against the bosses, against the exploiters, and for workers’ power, the workers in other countries would immediately understand and would instinctively lend their support.
		Thus they would be very happy to extend their influence into Nepal, especially when the Nepalese monarchy has been embracing US imperialism in order to hold back the Maoist guerrillas.
		Nepal - The collapse of the “Peace Talks” and the impasse facing the workers and peasants By Pablo Sanchez (October 3, 2003).
	www.marxist.com /Asia/nepal_sept2004.htm (5145 words)

	Online NewsHour: Update \| Peace Deal Ends Nepal Civil War \| November 21, 2006 \| PBS
		The government of Nepal and Maoist guerrillas signed an historic peace accord Tuesday, ending 10 years of fighting and human rights abuses on both sides that killed over 13,000 people and displaced over 100,000.
		The accord comes a day after a government commission blamed Gyanendra for April's brutal crackdown and suggested that the constitution be changed to allow criminal charges against the king, the AP reported.
		Rebel leaders had said their aim was to destroy government institutions and install a peasant regime, but it is not clear what they will do now that they are part of the government.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/updates/asia/july-dec06/nepal_11-21.html (524 words)

	Nepalnews.com Mercantile Communications Pvt. Ltd.
		Saying that the ongoing conflict in Nepal has put the civilians at greater risk, a renowned international human rights group has called for increased international pressure to tackle the crisis.
		Releasing its report “Nepal’s Civil War: The Conflict Resumes” on Tuesday, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the civilian casualties have soared after the breakdown of the Maoist ceasefire on January 2 this year.
		The ten-year-old civil war continues to place the civilian population at serious risk of war crimes and human rights abuses while hindering economic development of the impoverished countryside,” the 17-page report said, urging the international community to take steps to protect human rights in the Himalayan Kingdom.
	www.nepalnews.com /archive/2006/mar/mar28/news10.php (561 words)

	TIMEasia Magazine: Gunning for Nepal
		A TIME special report on the bloody civil war that is tearing the Himalayan kingdom apart
		The R.N.A. insists the strike was legitimate, boasting that it surprised a group of 800 armed fighters, of whom 25 were killed.
		It's almost impossible to fathom what a poorer Nepal would be like, [but] I guess you move from disease to epidemic, and malnutrition to starvation.
	www.time.com /time/asia/2005/nepal/story.html (972 words)

	Real Nepal - Nepal Wars - Nepal Vista's Features
		Nepal is the birth country of the peace loving Lord `Lord Buddha'.
		The war is between the Maoist gorillas and the Nepalese Royal Army.
		In the recently released State of the World's Mothers 2002, "Mothers and Children in War & Conflict", Nepal ranks 96 out of 105 conflict countries (1 being the best, 105 being the worst) in being able to meet the needs of their women and children.
	www.nepalvista.com /realnepal/war.html (314 words)

	The civil war in Nepal
		It is a move to strengthen the feudal autocracy which the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), who are leading the people’s war, has denounced.
		It is perfectly clear that there is not a terrorist problem in Nepal, it is a full-scale civil war.
		The people of Nepal are fighting against the old decrepit regime and ushering a new revolutionary society.
	home.clear.net.nz /pages/wpnz/oct15-02nepal.htm (847 words)

	Nepal civil war’s ‘half-widows’ -DAWN - International; January 5, 2006
		KATHMANDU: Nepal’s civil war has spawned a new term, ‘half-widows’, to describe the hundreds of women whose husbands are abducted by Maoist rebels or soldiers and remain missing, some for years.
		Nepal’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has revealed that Maoists kidnapped 5,606 civilians during their three-month unilateral ceasefire from Sep. 3 to Dec. 3, most to attend “education” meetings.
		Eighty-three per cent of the families had been displaced, most of them moving from villages to heavily-guarded district headquarters towns or Nepal’s few large cities, says the report, ‘Changing roles of Nepalese women due to the ongoing conflict and its impact’.
	www.dawn.com /2006/01/05/int9.htm (713 words)

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