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Article: Hope in Nepal's summer of discontent: A new prime minister takes office later this week, facing the challenges of putting this nation on track.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- July 24, 2001
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Byline: Scott Baldauf Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
KATHMANDU, NEPAL -- When Nepal's new prime minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba, takes office later this week, he will have many daunting tasks ahead.
Foremost among these is confronting a six-year-long Maoist insurgency that has killed some 1,700 Nepalis, and moved from the distant western region to the very suburbs of Kathmandu. To do this, he will have to fully deploy the Royal Nepal Army, restore faith in the elected government, and help the nation set aside its grief and suspicion surrounding the royal massacre that killed former King Birendra and his entire family last month. In ...