At least 37 Maoist rebels were killed in clashes with security forces on Friday in Nepal. Fifty-one rebels were killed on Wednesday in clashes with security personnel in western and southwestern Nepal, while another 48 police and rebels were killed on Thursday.
Nepal had better call in the Indians to help with this. It looks like they're going after the cannon fodder instead of trying to pinpoint the leadership. Gunnies are cheap and expendable.I'm still trying to figure out:
a. if the PRC is involved with the guerillas.
b. how does the rebel movement come up with all these guys to get shot?
Assuming no to a. then the scale of this counterinsurgency campaign in Nepal implies that the guerilla movement is very widespread. The only explanation I've read concerning this is that the royal family has really wasted the last years in reforming a feudal country.
Posted by Tom Roberts 2/24/2002 5:28:42 PM |