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Article: NEPAL: NEW WAR ERUPTS AS U.N. PEACE MISSION GETS NOD.
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- Interpress Service
- Article date:
- January 25, 2007
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by Marty Logan
KATHMANDU, Jan. 24, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- Five people have died and a curfew has been imposed in a district in Nepal's plains region after a clash between Maoists and activists for regional autonomy left a student dead.
Madheshi (after the "madhesh," or plains region) activists were blocking traffic Jan. 19 to protest the interim constitution approved by the new government when they stopped two vanloads of activists from the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). A fight erupted and student Ramesh Kumar Mahato was shot dead.
The killing provoked riots by the activists, who then clashed with police sent to control the situation. On ...