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Nepal rebels rule out peace talks
Nepal's elusive Maoist rebel leader "Prachanda" has ruled out peace talks or a cease-fire with the government, predicting that the nine-year-old war would see the Maoists come to power soon. "Right now, we do not see any possibility of talks with these mediaeval and barbaric feudal autocrats," he told Reuters in an interview by email received on Monday. "Right now, the possibility of a cease-fire does not exist."
They want to replace the mediaeval and barbaric fuedal autocrats with modern and barbaric Commie autocrats. That makes sense. Of a sort...
Prachanda's combative words come two months after Nepal's King Gyanendra seized power, declared a state of emergency and vowed to bring peace to the desperately poor Himalayan kingdom, where civil war has killed more than 11,000 people since 1996. The army, which backed the king's power grab, vowed in February to step up its offensive against the Maoists, but has shown little sign of doing so yet. Gyanendra's hand-picked government is against holding talks with the Maoists, calling them "ghosts that need to be dealt with the stick".

Prachanda, whose nom de guerre roughly means "awesome," responded with equal bitterness. "The seizure of power by the widely hated regicidal and fratricidal king is nothing else than the last and desperate attempt of feudal autocracy against the democratic thrust and aspiration of the Nepalese masses," he said.
Posted by: Fred 2005-04-18
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