From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Peoples War] Nepal army sent after CPN(M) AFP. 2 November 2001. Nepal deploys army in two areas after clashes with Maoists. KATHMANDU -- Nepal has deployed its army to two tense rural areas where Maoist rebels have clashed with local residents, officials said Friday. Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba said an unspecified army contingent was sent to the far western district of Jumla, where seven people were injured last week when villagers clashed with Maoist rebels who allegedly blocked them from praying at a Hindu temple. The Maoists then snatched four local members of Nepal's main parliamentary opposition, the Communist Party of Nepal-United Marxist and Leninist, but released them Friday. Some 50 army troops were also sent Wednesday to the western town of Betini, where villagers had killed the vice chairman of a Maoist-run local committee, home ministry sources said. In retaliation for the slaying, some 75 rebels vandalized the home of the town's development committee chairman while he was in Kathmandu. No members of the local official's family were injured, the sources said. The army has only been deployed against the Maoists since King Gyanendra took the throne in June. The Maoists, who run a virtual de facto state in parts of Nepal, have stepped up their activities amid a deadlocked peace process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews with continuing coverage of WWIII _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
