From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Peoples War] CPN(M) launch new offensive KOL. 16 December 2001. Maoists launch fresh attack in Solu; Massive arrests after Janakpur blast. BIRATNAGAR -- Defying a state of curfew, Maoist rebels launched concerted attacks on the District Police Office and military barracks in Solukhumbu district, on Sunday. This is the second such attack in three weeks, however this time no casualties or property losses have been reported. "Around 20 Maoists all of a sudden entered the DPO premises and started firing," said a policeman at the DPO. One of the officers at the Rajbiraj Regional Police Office said that the rebels were forced to disperse after the joint security team of the Armed Police Force and the Royal Nepal Army (RNA), repulsed the offensive in a half-hour clash. (yo) Meanwhile, officials have arrested 33 suspects in connection with a powerful bomb blast outside the Janakpur residence of Lila Koirala, a former minister and current member of the Nepali Congress Central Working Committee. Koirala was unhurt in the blast which occurred on Saturday but a government vehicle she was using was completely destroyed. According to Vishwa J.B.Rana, Superintendent of Police (SP), the attack was the handiwork of suspected Maoist rebels. He said the explosion was very powerful. In an another incident, Maoists hurled a bomb at the Joshipur village residence of Chairman of Kailali Distrcit Development Committee (DDC), Narayan Dutta Mishra, damaging property worth Rs 1.8 million, police sources said. The rebels also looted almost 150 quintal of rice, clothes and other materials. Similarly, a different group of armed Maoist rebels attacked Biru Prasad Chaudhari, elder brother of State Minister for Land Reform and Management, Ram Janam Chaudhari, on Saturday night in Tikapur, police said. Property worth 1.5 million was destroyed in the attack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews _________________________________________________ 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] _______________
