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Nepal’s Restive Revolutionaries

Budha oversees the Seventh Division Cantonment, a barracks of disarmed Maoist fighters in Kailali District, a rugged, isolated southwest corner of this poor South Asian country. In 1996 the Maoists launched a war to replace the parliamentary monarchy with a peoples new democratic republic, promising to end centuries of crippling social and economic inequality under royal rule. italienisches Restaurant Munchen . A decade laterafter at least 13,000 people were killed, the monarchy was abolished, and the insurgents efficacy in recruiting fighters and political adherents had far surpassed the expectations of the state Army and political establishmentboth sides signed a peace treaty to be temporarily monitored by the United Nations. It stipulated the creation of a new constitution and truth and reconciliation committees, as well as the integration of both armies into one national defense force. The rub: the Maoists estimated 19,000 combatants would have to be confined to barracks, where theyd be disarmed (though its not clear their weapons are entirely inaccessible) and temporarily monitored by U.N. officials.

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