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| Nepal rebels set fire to Sanskrit university |
| 2002-05-13 |
| Some 500 Maoist rebels stormed a Sanskrit university in west Nepal, set the building on fire and destroyed office records, an official said on Monday. District officer Mathur Prasad Yadav told Reuters that the guerrillas snapped telephone lines and overpowered the night guard of the Mahendra Sanskrit University in Dang in west Nepal late on Saturday before setting the building ablaze. "No one was injured in the incident," Yadav said, adding that several office rooms had been destroyed. The rebels, who are fighting to topple the constitutional monarchy in Nepal, oppose the teaching in schools of Sanskrit, an ancient Indian language. Sanskrit is the language of the Vedas, the earliest Indian literature. It's also the religious language of a couple major schools of Buddhism. ("We don't need no ed-ju-caytion...") I still keep wondering where they come up with all those people for these attacks, though. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |