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Article: NEPAL: REBEL GROUPS ATTACK REPORTERS.
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- Interpress Service
- Article date:
- April 30, 2007
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by Guna Raj Luitel
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Apr. 30, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- Rebel groups have been attacking Nepali journalists from all sides, issuing death threats, burning newspapers and hurling stones.
"Journalists are definitely the eyes of the movement and the revolution," said journalist-turned-insurgent Jwala Singh in an interview a couple of months ago in an undisclosed town on the Indo-Nepal border.
Singh, whose real name is Nagendra Paswan, is the chair of Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha (JTMM) insurgent group, which split from the Maoist Communist Party of Nepal last year. A former journalist, he once headed the local branch of the Federation of ...