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| US envoy unhurt as Nepal Maoists stone car | |
| 2007-05-26 | |
| KATHMANDU - Maoist activists stoned a car carrying the US envoy in southeast Nepal on Friday but the diplomat was not hurt, police and officials said. Members of the Young Communist League (YCL), the Maoists’ youth wing, hurled stones at the car outside the U.N. refugee agency office in the town of Damak, police officer Narayan Chimouriya told Reuters by telephone. Damak is about 300 km (200 miles) southeast of Kathmandu. “The stones hit the vehicle and caused some scratches to the car but the ambassador is safe,” Chimouriya said. A US embassy spokeswoman said Ambassador James F. Moriarty, on a tour of UN-supported camps housing tens of thousands of refugees from nearby Bhutan, was unhurt. Moriarty has been critical of the Maoists, who signed a peace deal with the government in November and joined an interim administration last month. No arrests had yet been made and there was no immediate comment from the YCL.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #4 US envoy unhurt as Nepal Maoists stone car Trying to make the envoy feel at home, like military recruiters at a California university. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-05-26 12:28 |
| #3 So, how far is Nepal from Bangladesh? They could lend a couple of RABs to take care of the commies. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2007-05-26 11:14 |
| #2 In recent months, members of the hitherto unknown Young Communist League (YCL) have emerged as a crucial front organisation for the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist). While the CPN-Maoist, which has joined the Interim Government, prepares for the elections to the Constituent Assembly, its YCL affiliate engages in abduction, extortion, looting and a range of intimidatory crimes. Indeed, the YCL is now perceived as a dreaded gang with the capacity to assault any one on the street, abduct people from their homes and issue threats to people while demanding money from them. YCL was formed by the CPN-Maoist at some point (there is no definite information on the year of its creation) during the ‘people’s war’ as an affiliate to provide support and energy to the ‘revolution’. As the party’s youth wing, its role was to "organise youth, be involved in events, conduct political awareness, and take part in development work as volunteers." Once the CPN-Maoist was proscribed, the YCL was also forced to go underground. After the April 2006 Jana Andolan (People’s Movement) and the subsequent over-ground role of the insurgents, the CPN-Maoist decided to revive the YCL. Ganeshman Pun, chairman of the YCL, reveals that the League was reactivated in November 2006. According to him, the YCL "is a fusion of the Party’s military and political character, and it is composed of PLA members who have an interest in politics." |
| Posted by: John Frum 2007-05-26 08:22 |
| #1 on further note, Mao was a bastard child who destroyed his own following. China I blame, you get the obnoxious duty to say NO. Or not. |
| Posted by: newc 2007-05-26 01:50 |