Archive Maoists, 2005

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29/12/2007: Maoists to rejoin govt today (kp)

28/12/2007: UNMIN verification: Near 12,000 disqualify (kp)

25/12/2007: YCL thrash locals, injure 22 (kp)

23/12/2007: UNMIN completes 2nd stage verification (kp), Farmers oppose Maoist donation drive, by Kamal Panthi (kp) [Donations would be voluntary! The Maoist criminal procedure is a typical form of feudal exploitation!!]

22/12/2007: Maoists blacklist 45 for Gaur carnage (kp)

21/12/2007: Maoists close Sipradi (kp)

20/12/2007: A month later, Maoists say abducted man ‘fled’, by Rajendra Nath (kp)

19/12/2007: Cops seize jeep from Maoists (kp), Maoists extort rice from farmers (kp)

17/12/2007: Locals force Maoists to apologize (kp), Maoist condolence meet organized in Gaur, by Shiva Puri (kp)

15/12/2007: Cantonment hides accounts (kp)

14/12/2007: NC condemns ANNFSU, YCL attack on NSU students (kp)

13/12/2007: Maoist cadre with pistol held, freed (kp)

12/12/2007: Maoists make cantonment expenses public, by Binod Tripathi (kp)

10/12/2007: YCL men beat up NSU leader, cleaner (kp), Maoists up property seizure, by Binod Tripathi (kp)

09/12/2007: Entrepreneurs decry Maoist beating of tourist (kp), Arrest Sah’s murderers: FNJ (kp), Maoists thrash UML cadre (kp)

08/12/2007: 2 Maoists held for beating up tourist (kp), Maoists sorry for beating medicos (kp) [This is not enough! Bring your cadres, especially the YCL, under control or dissolve them!!], Maoists grab property, hound family out (kp)

07/12/2007: Maoists injure tourist not paying donation, by Prem Nepali (kp)

06/12/2007: ‘60pc PLA troops will pass verification’, by Narayan Sharma (kp), Family in cowshed after Maoists forced them out (kp)

05/12/2007: Donation drive unabated, by Shahiman Rai (kp), 2nd round PLA verification at Shaktikhor (kp)

04/12/2007: Maoists capture house, give seized land to locals (kp)

01/12/2007: Doc assaulters will be handed over to police: Prachanda (kp), YCL to start republican march today (kp), Maoists refute extortion charge (kp)

30/11/2007: Maoist terror continues: MPs (kp), Maoists abduct, thrash businessman (kp), YCL taxes transport operators (kp)

29/11/2007: Why PLA combatants flee camps, by Binod Tripathi (kp), Maoists continue atrocities (kp), Medical staff halt protests (kp)

28/11/2007: Maoist sister wings urge party to resort to protests (kp), Maoists not to give up 'back to jungle' option (kp), Docs threaten to hit the streets (kp), YCL, FLSC vie for donations (kp), Janaki Temple shuts for 2 hrs after Maoist rampage (kp), Maoist-damaged bridges yet to be built, by Tularam Pandey (kp)

27/11/2007: Professionals stage sit-in against Maoists (kp), UML says sorry for thrashing Maoists (kp), DAO move against Maoist extortion, by Kamal Panthi (kp), Tourism entrepreneurs unite against donation drive (kp)

26/11/2007: YCL to turn holy: Prachanda, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp) [by killing, beating, stealing, robbing, extorting, abducting and other crimes??], Judges, lawyers face threats, by Kiran Chapagain (kp), Professionals to protest Maoist high-handedness (kp), 'Lack of security' prevented Prachanda's Madi visit, by Binod Tripathi (kp), Villagers, Maoists clash, by Tioka Bhatt (kp)

25/11/2007: We'll fight 40 yrs more if needed: Prachanda (kp), Maoist seasonal donation drive terrifies farmers (kp), Sit-in gainst YCL attack on docs (kp), PLA combatant numbers fall short (kp), Madi victims accuse Prachanda of dishonesty (kp), Maoist victims want seized property back (kp)

24/11/2007: 36 Maoists arrested for torching vehicles Rautahat and Siraha still shut (kp), YCL leader arrested for thrashing cops (kp), Maoists revive RPC (kp)

23/11/2007: Maoist 'voluntary' donations spread terror, by Milan Maniu Sharma (kp), Vacate ex-minister’s house: Maoists (kp), ‘Maoists continue labor camp’, by Numaraj Khanal (kp)

22/11/2007: OHCHR to Maoists: Don't force minors to rejoin PLA (nn), OHCHR urges CPN-M to cooperate with reintegration of minors associated with armed forces and armed group (Relief Web), Maoist abducted Thakuri: FNJ (kp), Maoists resume ‘kangaroo courts’, continue land seizures (kp), Return of seized lands urged (kp)

21/11/2007: YCL does it again; abducts, tortures college staffers (nn), ‘YCL abducts, brutalizes docs, others’ (kp), Maoists manhandle scribe during bandh (ht), Indian police arrest, release 18 Maoists (nn), Maoist cadres held, freed in India, by Gopal Khanal (kp), Maoists impose Rautahat bandh (nn), Maoists start donation collection at central level (kp), YCL bash up, loot travellers (kp), PLA Verification Phase-II Ends in Nawalparasi Camp (ht)

20/11/2007: Maoists shut down Siraha, MSF announces bandh in Malangawa (nn), Villagers flee fearing Maoist wrath (kp)

19/11/2007: Maoist leaders leaving for US today (nn), Maoists seize Kamal Thapa’s property in Hetauda (nn), Maoists intensify donation drive (kp), Breakaway Maoist Faction Holding Conclave in Kailali, by Rabi Dhami (ht)

18/11/2007: Six Maoist district activists quit party (nn), Six YCL cadres quit Maoist party (kp), Rights organisations point at Maoist hand behind Thakuri's disappearance (nn), ‘Maoists had hand in Thakuri abduction’ (kp)

17/11/2007: YCL hands over five alleged criminals to police (nn), Kids learn ‘people’s education’ in Salyan, by Biplav Maharjan (kp)

16/11/2007: Maoists announce 12-day protest march in western Terai (nn), YCL Milking Yak Herders in Taplejung (ht)

15/11/2007: Maoists set up costly insfrastructure at camp, by Binod Tripathi (kp), Clean up the mess (kp)

14/11/2007: YCL abducts youth (nn), ‘Maoists messing up security in far west’, by Mohan Budhaair (kp), Maoist extortion of tourists continues (kp)

13/11/2007: Maoists accused of killing NC worker (kp)

11/11/2007: Maoist MPs get US visa (nn)

08/11/2007: Media requested to black out Maoist news (nn), Prachanda gets 'raw meat gift' for Shah's murder (nn), PM promises to take action against Shah's killers; Shah's body still not found (nn), Journalist Shah's dead body found (nn), IFJ outraged at the death of Birendra Shah (nn), FNJ blasts Maoists for threatening journo (kp)

07/11/2007: YCL cadres rough up NC leaders in Lamjung (nn), Maoists want cases dropped, by Kiran Chapagain (kp)

06/11/2007: Maoist bandh cripples life in Rautahat (nn), Indefinite strike in Rautahat, by Shiva Puri (kp), 1000 CPN-M combatants sick with epidemic disease (Xinhua), Indian aid for clean drinking water management (nn), Maoists extorting from govt staff (kp), Outcry in Nepal after Maoists admit to killing journalist (wi), Nepal anger at killing by Maoists (BBC News)

05/11/2007: Maoists abduct Rukum court employees (kp), NC warns YCL (kp), Police report says Maiosts kidnapped Sah (kp), Maoist report says journalist Shah was murdered on the day of his abduction (nn)

03/11/2007: Maoists intensify extortion, ban NGOs (kp), YCL kidnaps ex-royal council man (samn), Second stage verification begins at 4th PLA division (nn)

02/11/2007: Maoists appeal for voluntary assistance from tourists (nn), YCL abducts two persons from ministry premises, releases them after beating (nn), YCL abducts former Rajparishad member (nn), Ramechhap Maoists tax transporters (kp), Locals file case against Maoists (kp), Change now (kp)

01/11/2007: Banda affects Arghakhachi (kp), Arghakhanchi bandh withdrawn (nn), Maoists abduct NC supporter in capital (kp), Maoists continue extortion from tourists (kp)

31/10/2007: Police arrest 12 YCL cadres in Dhangadhi (nn), YCL men held on charges of extortion, abduction (kp), Maoists enforce bandh in Arghakhanchi following scuffle with local drivers (nn), Maoists abduct NC activist (kp), Curfew in Sandhikharka after clash (kp)

30/10/2007: Maoists extort from tourists, entrepreneurs worry, by Kulchandra Neupane (kp), Maoists harvest paddy belonging to displaced (kp), Nepal's 'Daniel Pearl' feared killed by Maoists (wi)

29/10/2007: Maoists disrupt highway demanding it be declared peace zone (nn), Maoist army has significant number of minors: Ian Martin (nn), Maoist panel to seek Sah (kp), YCL cadres threaten to kill 3 NC activists (kp), YCL injured locals await treatment, by Tularam Pandey (kp)

27/10/2007: YCL cadres thrash villagers for worshipping at a local temple (nn), Religious worship a YCL taboo?, by Tularam Pandey (kp)

26/10/2007: YCL seizes more lands (kp)

25/10/2007: Maoists kidnap NC leader, whereabouts of abducted journo still unknown (nn), Gajurel leaves for month-long tour to Europe (nn)

24/10/2007: Maoists abduct, extort from NC cadres (kp)

23/10/2007: YCL abducts NC leader in Rukum (nn)

19/10/2007: 3-month salary to Maoist combatants (kp), Trolley office in YCL grip for 11 days (samn)

17/10/2007: Maoists up extortion in Ilam, imply threats (kp)

16/10/2007: Maoists continue extortion (nn), OHCHR raises HR violations by Maoists (kp), PLA 5th division verification completed (kp), Nepal Maoists start anti-Dalai Lama campaign (Hindustan Times)

15/10/2007: ‘Expenditure not transparent’: PLA combatants in camps: No more funding for disqualified, absentees, by Yuvraj Acharya (kp), PLA not in mood to celebrate Dashain (samn), Second stage PLA verification to complete in two months (nn)

14/10/2007: Maoists on rampage breach pacts: NC (kp), Locals flay YCL threat (kp

13/10/2007: UML opposes Maoists' donation drive (samn)

12/10/2007: Maoists thrash teacher over donation (kp), Mahara urges govt to punish Sah's abductors (kp) [Such punishment is the task of the judiciary; so please bring them to court!!], Locals forced to pay for vandalizing YCL office (kp) [O.k., and when the Maoists pay for all their vandalism and crimes??]

11/10/2007: Maoists abduct UML leader, threaten teachers (kp), Maoist round-table meet starts (nn), Salary offer for PLA positive: Prachanda (samn)

10/10/2007: Maoists crank up extortion drive (kp)

09/10/2007: Maoists step up donation drive to 'ensure CA election' (nn), Maoists intensify donation drive (kp), YCL cadres beat up hubby, pregnant wife (kp), Govt to release 3 months’ pay to PLA fighters (kp)

08/10/2007: Maoist dissidents reorganised (nn), Dissident Maoists form new party (samn), Maoists up donation drive in Okhaldhunga (kp)

07/10/2007: Monitors find 500 PLA men below 18 yrs in 7th division (nn), YCL terrorize locals (kp)

06/10/2007: NHRC urges YCL to amend its behaviour (nn), Maoists abduct journalist in Bara (nn)

05/10/2007: UML activist abducted (nn), Maoists collect ‘tourism tax’, by Ghanashyam Khadka (kp), Rs 500,000 from locals for vandalized office demanded: YCL atrocities go unchecked (kp), Parties scrap pro-Maoist decision at DDC, by Surendra Subedi (kp), Maoist security guards padlock MIA (kp)

04/10/2007: Maoists, FLSC continue taxation in east (kp), ‘Maoists yet to sign anti-landmine treaty’ (kp), Maoists still using looted vehicles, by Mohan Budhaair (kp)

03/10/2007: NC flays YCL lists (kp), Stop voter education: Maoists, by Arjun Shah (kp) [??], Locals torch Maoist office: Police provide security for Maoist leaders (kp)

02/10/2007: YCL steps up pressure, demands nationalisation of properties of 'corrupt' (nn)

01/10/2007: YCL pickets houses of former royal functionaries (nn), Maoist trade union leader threatens to shut down Kantipur TV (nn)

29/09/2007: Maoists stop the presses at top dailies (Gulf Times), Ex-rebels want special parliament meet (Gulf Times)

28/09/2007: Maoist union halts publication of Kantipur (nn), FNJ raps Maoist union for obstructing ads (kp)

27/09/2007: Maoist union at it again, intervene in Kantipur (nn), Maoist trade union targets Kantipur Publications (kp), Maoists have weakened ideologically and politically, says Nepal (nn), Defeat Maoists ideologically: Nepal: Maoists grievously injure ANNFSU leader (kp), Maoists fight shy of polls as support wanes (kp), UML imposes bandh in Dhading protesting YCL attack (nn), Maoists batter 7 CPN-UML cadres (kp), Maoists deterring CA poll campaigns (kp 27/09/2007)

26/09/2007: UML cadres injured in YCL attack (nn)

25/09/2007: PLA combatants increase pressure on the govt (nn), Maoist local leader brutally murdered, by Rabindra Upreti (kp)

24/09/2007: Maoist district leader killed in Mahottari (nn), Maoist fighters picket DAO (kp), Let us grab some more land, by Shyam KC (kp)

23/09/2007: Maoists disrupt poll awareness gathering (samn), Over 500 bombs defused in eastern Nepal (pd), PLA men gherao Sindhuli DAO (nn)

21/09/2007: Frustration grows in Maoist army camps (Gulf Times 21/09/2007)

20/09/2007: Maoists' social anxiety, by Prateek Pradhan (kp)

19/09/2007: PLA soldiers walk out of camp to stage demonstrations (nn), PLA troops exit camp in protest, by Binod Tripathi (kp), Use no combatants in political protests: UNMIN (kp), 3 Maoists held for Insas, SMG possession (kp)

18/09/2007: Three armed Maoist cadres arrested at Nepalgunj Airport (nn)

16/09/2007: PLA fighters beat up, injure 6 locals, by Narayan Sharma (kp)

15/09/2007: Maoists beat up lawmaker, locals (nn), PLA men protest outside camps, by Narayan Sharma (kp), 1,000 PLA soldiers protest outside camps (samn), Commitment violated: UNMIN (kp), 2,000 PLA men verified, by Motilal Poudel (kp 15/09/2007)

14/09/2007: PLA combatants come out of cantonments to demonstrate (nn), PLA's movement is serious violation of agreement, says UNMIN (nn)

13/09/2007: Maoist driver, bodyguard flee with gun, car (kp), Maoists cross swords with Pashupatinath now (wi)

12/09/2007: YCL demonstrates by brandishing Khukuris (nn)

11/09/2007: YCL thrash businessman in Udayapur (kp)

10/09/2007: YCL cadres abduct folk singer Khanal, torture youth (kp), NHRC calls for Khanal's release (nn)

09/09/2007: YCL men beat up 4 locals (kp)

07/09/2007: YCL cadres beat up, injure 5 locals (kp), ANNISU-R to go on CA poll campaign (kp), Maoists to resume land seizure campaign (nn)

06/09/2007: YCL to target 'corrupt' people (nn)

05/09/2007: PLA verification in Surkhet begins, by Moti Lal Poudel (kp), YCL calls off protest programmes (nn)

04/09/2007: Maoist deputy commanders submit 6-point memo to PM Koirala (nn), Maoists skew ‘murder’ case, by Biplav Maharjan (kp), Maoists beat up journo, civil servant (kp), Maoists call Rasuwa bandh (samn)

03/09/2007: Maoists clash with locals in Parbat, Rasuwa (nn), Maoists want to deploy PLA for CA election (kp), Villagers beat up Maoists (kp)

02/09/2007: YCL announces protest programmes (nn), Maoist cadres assault UML leaders (nn), Maoists batter ex-UML MP (kp), Cops return to dist HQ: YCL attempts to snatch APF arms (kp), Maoists return seized lands of 23 persons, by Biplav Maharjan (kp), Police release 31 YCL cadres from detention (nn)

31/08/2007: Maoists disrupt UML CA election campaign (nn), Unidentified gang kills Maoist in Banke (nn)

30/08/2007: YCL seizes rifles, bullets from cops, by Bharat Jarghamagar and Dev Narayan Shah (kp)

29/08/2007: Janai Purnima on empty stomachs for Maoist victims (kp), YCL cadres capture arms from police team (nn)

27/08/2007: YCL mobilises cadres to remove city garbage (nn), YCL starts "collecting" taxes (nn)

26/08/2007: 2nd stage verification ends (kp), YCL starts collecting garbage (kp), Villagers turn over armed Maoists to cops (kp)

25/08/2007: Verification of PLA 2nd Division completes (nn), 6 hurt as YCL meddle in family dispute (kp)

24/08/2007: Some disqualified cambatants requalify (kp), YCL, locals clash, police fire teargas (kp), YCL attack on NC cadre condemned (kp), Adolescent antics: When will they ever grow up?, by Foreign hand (nt)

23/08/2007: NEA counters shut after Maoist threat (kp), Maoists take 4 persons under control (kp)

22/08/2007: Gajurel says Maoists want to resolve issues in one package (nn), Maoists face flak left, right and center (kp), Maoist desperation (kp)

21/08/2007: ‘Industrial-capitalism is Maoist economy policy’ (kp), Physical action cannot be ruled out in course of agitation, says YCL prez (nn) [Do you fight for a democratic state under the rule of law or for an authoritarian one based on anarchy??]

18/08/2007: 17 Maoists bailed on date (kp), Maoists threaten shutdown of varsities (Peninsula)

17/08/2007: Regressive forces are troubled by YCL, says Pun (nn), Govt won’t spare assailants: Sitaula (kp), MPs flay attack on lawmaker (samn), 46 YCL cadres to face public offense cases (kp), No one can isolate us: Mahara (nn), Major restructuring in Maoist party: Maoists form committees for ethnic-based states (kp), Authorities doing little to return vehicles seized by Maoists, by Mohan Budaair (kp), Split personality (nt), Peace process crawls due to PLA issue (samn), Maoists ready to correct mistakes (samn), Dolakha district authority releases Maoist cadres (nn), Monitoring of Maoist army hasn't been effective, says Mahat (nn)

16/07/2007: Maoist trade union backs off, says it will not shut down media houses (nn), 11 Maoists released (nn), Second stage PLA verification concludes in Sindhuli (nn), Maoist CC meet concludes (kp), Six Maoist regional commands go (samn), 6 still in Maoist labor camp, by Biplav Maharjan (kp), Attack on Pandey is an attack on parliament, says Sitaula (nn), Maoists decide to divide country into 11 state committees; Madhes committee has three sub committees (nn)

15/08/2007: Home Ministry raises objections on the use of combat dress in YCL rally (nn), YCL attempts to abduct journo (nn), UNMIN resumes verification in Sindhuli (kp), It's out of frying pan into fire for YCL chap (kp), Old habits (kp), Maoists announce education, transport strike in Dolakha (nn), Maoist central meet concludes; makes changes in organisational structure (nn)

14/08/2007: Maoist MPs boycott House sitting; CPN-M central meet deferred again (nn), Second stage PLA verification resumes (nn), PLA troops verification to resume today (kp), ANNISU-R storm campus, injure principal, students: YCL men thrash NSU students in Bhaktapur, by Kosh Raj Koirala (kp), Irate NSU students close down educational institutions nationwide (nn), Pro-Maoist unionists continue obstruction at THT, AP (kp), Dolakha Maoists’ new threat, by Rajendra Manandhar (kp), Scribes stage sit-in against Maoist intervention on press freedom (nn)

13/08/2007: Maoist warn of 'fight to finish' (nn), Nuwakot police post raid : Arms returned; Regmi, others in Maoist 'control' (kp), Maoist workers threaten journalists (samn), Ex-royalist wants Maoists to return favourite horse (Gulf Times), Pro-Maoist students thrash students close to Congress in Thapathali campus (nn), Media Society asks for protection; THT/AP staffers prevented from entering office premises (nn)

12/08/2007: Maoist-affiliated workers interfere in editorial decision, disrupt newspaper distribution (nn), Pro-Maoist union stops THT, AP distribution (kp), Revolts within Maoists could seriously disturb peace process, says Shrestha (nn), Maoists cadres claim revolt in Nuwakot (kp), Maoist faction announces revolt after storming police post (wi), Nepal Maoist rebels form split group, by Ameet Dhakal (Hindu), YCL tracks down police post raiders, by Prakash Adhikari (kp), Maoist defector surrenders with looted arms (nn), Maoist cache of arms goes off, houses damaged (kp)

11/08/2007: Police, YCL continue search for fleeing rebels; ‘Revolting’ Maoists form armed group in Nuwakot (nn), Police, YCL hunt for Maoist attackers (kp), ‘Maoists violating CPA more’ (kp), Court summons workers in APCA case (kp), Maoist central meeting deferred until Monday (nn)

10/08/2007: Maoists to hold central committee meeting (nn), Maoists raid police post, loot arms (kp), Former communist guerrillas attack Nepal police post, steal guns and bullets (iht), PLA verification to resume next week (kp), Maoists diffident about poll, not against it: UML (kp), Cops, locals seize four Maoists with weapons (kp), Maoist lawmakers walk out: Parliament passes budget (kp), Foreign policy of the Maoists, by Prakash A Raj (kp), Plenum’s complication, by Samragyee Bhandari (kp)

09/08/2007: Maoists still using ‘stolen’ cars (kp), A fallible plenum patch up, by Prateek Pradhan (kp)

08/08/2007: Maoist meet formalizes poll pre-conditions, by Ghanashyam Ojha (kp), NBA raps YCL threat (kp), Impudent YCL and CA poll quandary, by Ishwor N Rijal (kp), Maoists shut down popular Nepal radio station (wi), Maoist leaders for ‘revolt’ in govt, House and street (nn)

07/08/2007: Prachanda begins answering at plenum (nn), Plenum passes Prachanda's report (nn), PLA presses party to quit govt (samn), Maoist ranks want to wage new war (Peninsula)

06/08/2007: Maoist 5th plenum: Quit govt: Maoists tell leadership (kp), Maoist ranks ready to light Nepal powder keg again (wi), Maoist leaders call for people’s revolt (samn), Maoist cadres criticise party leadership; pressurise to quit govt (nn)

05/08/2007: Matrika denies withdrawing resignation (nn), Maoist deserter forms new group (kp), Maoists under duress to quit govt (samn)

04/08/2007: Maoist plenum may decide to quit govt before CA polls (nn), Maoist dissidents accuse leadership of abandoning revolution (nn)

03/08/2007: Maoists beat up police for arresting comrade (nn), Maoists at it again: Thrash cops for arresting comrade, by Jaya Bahadur Rokaya (kp), CDOs denounce attack on colleague (nn), Maoist minister Yadav resigns (kp), Matrika Yadav quits cabinet (samn), Ex-rebel minister resigns from government formed under peace deal in Nepal (iht), Prachanda refuses Yadav's resignation (nn), Matrika Yadav withdraws resignation (nn), Maoists go astray, by Ameet Dhakal (kp), Prachanda vs Kiran (nt, originally in Drishti, 31 July), Maoist plenum beings in Kathmandu (nn)

02/08/2007: Prachanda's proposal on "people's revolt" to be presented at party plenum (nn), Prachanda's clarifications: "No decision to launch people's revolt" (nn), Maoist central committee meet ends; stresses republic before polls (nn), Maoists call off Dolakha strike (nn), Dolakha debacle prompts Maoists to announce 'exposure' campaign (nn), Minister Gurung threatens Maoists will walk out from the govt (nn), Teen flees Maoist captivity after 9 months (kp), Forest Minister Yadav resigns; Maoist leaders caught by surprise (nn)

01/08/2007: Prachanda proposes launching "People's Revolt" (nn), PLA deserter claims 1,000 combatants fled cantonments (kp), Maoists threathen again to kill LDO, by Labadev Dhungana (kp), Maoists defend YCL actions: MPs condemn attack on CDO, LDO (kp), Attempt to murder case against 11 Maoists: Public offense against 17 others, 4 freed, by Rajendra Manandhar (kp), Fears over Nepal's young Maoists, by Surendra Phuyal (BBC News)

31/07/2007: YCL cadres vandalise DDC office, LDO's home (nn), Maoist central committee meeting begins (nn), ‘100 bigha Guthi Sansthan land seized’, by Babural Kharel (kp), Shame on Maoists (kp), PLA defector claims 1000 combatants left camps in Nawalparasi (nn), Fuming Maoist guerrillas desert barracks: report (wi), Maoists warn of closing down Kavre and Sindhupalchowk over Dolakha issue (nn)

30/07/2007: Differences in Maoists ahead of crucial meet (nn), Maoists stick with their demands for ambassadorial posts (nn), 700 Maoist combatants of Shaktikhor camp fall ill (nn), 700 Maoist fighters sick in Chitwan (kp), Curfew in Dolakha after YCL men beat up CDO: Dozens cops, Maoists hurt in clash (kp), Works at DAOs come to a halt as officials protest ‘YCL highhandedness' (nn), North Nepal tense after Maoist rampage (wi), Is freedom really a myth?, by Shyam KC (kp)

29/07/2007: 'Discrimination' in PLA camp irks fighters, by Mohan Budaair (kp), Withdraw case or else: Maoists (kp), Curfew in Charikot as YCL activists clash with police (nn)

27/07/2007: United they stand (nt), PLA bverification: Delayed Resumption, by Sanjaya Dhakal (sp)

25/07/2007: Disruption of newspaper distribution continues (nn), Maoists still obstructing newspaper distribution (kp), Maoists equally guilty of crime against humanity as any: Pradip Gyawali (nn), Fear psychosis (kp), UNMIN and Maoists’ heartburn, by Som P Pudasaini (kp)

24/07/2007: UNMIN to re-verify ‘some’ combatants (kp)

23/07/2007: Maoist trade union disrupts newspaper distribution, pickets publishing house (nn), Press gagging (kp), Maoist ministers concerned about personal security; NA concerned (nn), Maoist ministers reject ranger batallion security (kp), Army takes Maoist ministers by surprise (samn), YCL blackens royalist’s face (kp), Abductees’ status unknown (samn), UNMIN to re-verify disqualified combatants of Chulachuli cantonment (nn)

22/07/2007: Attempt to attack Maoist MP foiled (nn), Cops foil JTMM-J attempt on Maoist MP (kp), RPP condemns attacks against its offices (nn), Govt ministers in Terai for 'consultative meetings' (nn), Maoist unionists block newspaper distribution (kp), Goit’s men gun down Maoist cadre in Dhanusha (nn), Suspicious over their sudden change, Maoist ministers reject NA guards (nn), Seven Maoist combatants flee camp with arms (nn)

21/07/2007: Analysis: The verification conundrum, by Ameet Dhakal (kp), Verification to resume soon (kp), Date for verification not yet fixed (samn), Nepal: second stage of monitoring of Maoist army personnel to resume – UN (UN News Centre), Maoists targeting independent media (samn), Maoist-affiliated workers disrupt distribution of newspapers (nn)

20/07/2007: Maoists okay resumption of verification (kp), Loose talk indeed!, by Ameet Dhakal (kp), PLA Verification: Serious Snag, by Sanjaya Dhakal (sp), Maoists, UNMIN meeting inconclusive (nn), Indian, British envoys advise Prachanda to abide by peace pact (nn)

19/07/2007: Maoists, entrepreneurs hold discussion (nn), Top Maoists address economic issues (kp), Efforts continue for PLA-NA integration, resuming PLA verification (nn), PLA verification to resume (kp)

18/07/2007: RPP office vandalised (nn), ‘YCL poll deployment unacceptable’ (kp)

17/07/2007: We're not compelled to obey UNMIN, says Ananta (nn) [??], Maoists unwilling to forgo disqualified troops: Martin (kp), Maoists accuse UN of disarming them (wi), Jolt to Nepal verification (samn), UN for immediate release of child soldiers from Maoist force (Relief Web)

16/07/2007: Maoists engaged in strategic homework (nn), UNMIN seeks immediate resumption of PLA verification (nn), JMCC meeting inconclusive (nn), JTMM-Goit kills Maoist activist in Siraha (nn), 12 injured in YCL-locals clash (nn)

15/07/2007: Verification halted due to ‘conspiracy’ (kp), UNMIN chief intensifies effort to resume PLA verification (nn), Strong backlash after YCL cadres beat locals (kp), Bhoto and Maoist ambivalences, by Arun Gupto (kp), Maoists take money from elderly man (samn)

14/07/2007: Verification shouldn't stop, Martin tells PM (kp), Maoists seize ex-PM Thapa’s land (kp), PLA deputy commander suspects UN intention (nn)

13/07/2007: Maoists grab land belonging to Thapa (nn), New Maoist demands halt UN arms verification in Nepal (wi), Verification process shouldn't stop: Martin (kp), Martin meets with PM; discusses the stalled verification of PLA (nn), Stalling of verification of Maoist PLA is violation of agreement, says Moriarty (nn), Robin Hood culture, by Dhruva Joshy (kp), Maoists want fighters in security wings (samn)

12/07/2007: Second phase PLA verification hits a snag yet again (nn)

11/07/2007: YCL on donation drive (samn)

09/07/2007: YCL vandalises office of RPP, RJP (nn), Baidya says CPN-M still trains cadres in guerilla warfare (nn), Chinese delegation visits PLA cantonment (nn), Chinese team visits Shaktikhor camp, by Binod Tripathi (kp), Maoists force cops out from restored post (kp), Authorities refuse to register complaint against Maoists (kp 09/07/2007)

08/07/2007: Families of deceased Maoists to live jointly, by Ganesh Chaudhary (kp)

07/07/2007: Maoists threaten UML cadre (kp), Father of missing soldiers sick at heart, by Kamal Panthi (kp), Maoists smug over new huts (kp)

06/07/2007: Maoist office in healthpost (kp), Terai travelogue, by Ameet Dhakal (kp)

05/07/2007: Two Maoists in villagers' captivity (samn)

03/07/2007: Students vandalize Maoist office, 3 hurt (kp)

02/07/2007: Maoists not to return ‘royalists’ property (nn), UNMIN refutes media report on PLA verification (nn), UNMIN disputes number of disqualified Maoist troops (kp), JTMM-J men gun down Maoist leader (kp), PLA soldiers start getting salary (samn)

01/07/2007: Maoist commander commits 'suicide' (nn), Maoists obstruct UN verification process (samn)

30/06/2007: Tarun Dal condemns maltreatment of NSU central member (nn), Local man, two Maoists injured in clash (kp), One injured as YCL and JTMM-Goit exchange fire (nn), 400 PLA men fail second phase verification in Chulachuli (nn)

29/06/2007: Maoist defector ready to place ‘hidden’ weapons in UN cantonment (nn), Maoists press police to vacate office (kp), On YCL Excesses: The UN rights body comes down hard against Maoist-affiliated YCL for rights abuses (sp 29/06/2007), UNMIN delivers report of verification of Ilam camp to Prachanda (nn)

28/06/2007: Underage Maoists sent home to ‘adjust’ age, by Surendra Subedi (kp), Maoist threatens to kill school principal (kp), YCL nabs two with leopard skin, idol (samn), Maoists beat up hotelier, say sorry (samn)

27/06/2007: YCL refutes OHCHR allegations (kp), YCL, locals shoot it out (kp), UNMIN fact-finding team in Beni, by Ghanashyam Khadka (kp), YCL hands over two alleged smugglers to authorities (nn)

26/06/2007: Maoist-abducted NC-D leader found dead (kp), Maoist 1st division verification to end (samn), YCL rejects OHCHR's charges (nn)

25/06/2007: YCL to start ‘door to door’ campaign in the valley (nn), YCL vandalize vehicles and shops (kp), Maoist-tortured boy's condition deteriorating, by Santosh Pokharel (kp), YCL cadres ‘torture’ youth (kp), Ruling party accuses Maoists of killing a member (wi), Bandarmude (kp), Prachanda’s son on China tour (kp)

24/06/2007: Shahi found dead (nn), Maoists announce 3-day bandh in Saptari (nn), Maoists go on rampage, call indefinite closure in east Terai (wi), YCL threatens to ‘kill’ Madi injured, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp) [???], 'YCL atrocities worse than reported' (kp) [Prachanda, when will you discipline this organization??], Tell YCL to cease and desist: OHCHR (kp), MPRF vandalizes Maoist office, by Narayan Sharma (kp), Maoists obstruct highway to free cadre, by Aman Koirala (kp)

23/06/2007: Dispute halts Madi memorial work, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp), Maoists threaten Madi victims (nn), Trouble in Maoists' Madhesi front; Matrika Yadav steps down (nn), Young Maoists pose threat to Nepal’s fragile peace (Peninsula), Young communist vigilantes prompt fears for Nepal peace, by Sam Taylor (Daily Times), OHCHR raises alarm over YCL activities (nn), Maoists manhandle UML leader (nn), JTMM-Goit kills Maoist leader in Saptari (nn)

22/06/2007: Maoists disagree with Madi memorial (nn), Police raid YCL office (kp), Police seize illegally used vehicle from Maoists, by Baburam Kharel (kp), Freed RHD demands safety for govt employees, by Janak Nepal (kp), Messy gamble: Maoists have infiltrated the casinos too, by Dambar K Shrestha (kp), Jungle justice, interview with Chandra Bahadur Thapa (‘Sagar’), YCL in-charge of Kathmandu Valley (nt, originally in Tarun, 18 June), YCL blocks highway traffic (samn)

21/06/2007: Police rescues health official abducted by YCL (nn), Cops raid YCL office, free govt official (kp), FNJ, Council express concern over Samacharpatra's suspension (nn), Parties, FNJ flay interference in Kamana Group (kp), Samacharpatra closure (kp), UN Secy General welcomes verification (kp), UN team interviews 550 more PLA soldiers (samn), Maoists abduct VDC secy (kp), Transitional Maoist diplomacy, by Som P Pudasaini (kp)

20/06/2007: UN chief welcomes PLA verification (nn), UNMIN begins PLA verification (kp), PLA verification phase-II begins (samn), UN arms monitors begin to interview thousands of ex-rebel fighters in Nepal (International herald tribune), Construction work starts at cantonment, by Binod Tripathi (kp)

19/06/2007: Second phase verification to begin today (nn), PLA verification to begin from Chulachuli today (kp), Maoists to organise agitation in Madhes soon (nn)

18/06/2007: PLA verification from Tuesday (kp), What else could poor Maoists have done?, by Shyam KC (kp)

17/06/2007: YCL members thrash youth for being 'royalist', by Madhav Aryal (kp), First phase of combatants’ shelter completed (kp), Businessmen, Maoists end dispute (kp)

16/06/2007: Maoists keeping weapons without DAO's permission (nn)

15/06/2007: 2nd phase verification postponed (kp), Verification deferred on Maoist request (samn), Irate businessmen torch Maoist office (kp), YCL closes schools, thrashes local (kp), YCL men’s murder: Marchbar still tense (samn), Maoists discuss ways to protect YCLs (samn), Maoists flayed for ignoring pact (samn)

14/06/2007: MPRF men ‘murder’ 2 YCL cadres, by Madhav Dhungana (kp), Maoist guerrillas call shutdown in Terai area (Gulf Times), We’ll take arms out of UN containers: Baldev (kp), ‘YCL men’ beat up ex-NSU prez (kp), UN postpones second phase of verification of Maoist combatants (Hindustan Times), Second phase PLA verification postponed (nn)

12/06/2007: Arms verification to begin Thursday (kp), YCL cadres force family to leave home (samn)

11/06/2007: Five vehicles torched, 10 vandalized: Maoists call off Kapilvastu banda (kp), Maoists beat up civilians (samn)

10/06/2007: YCL sets five vehicles to fire in Kapilvastu (nn)

08/06/2007: Pro-Maoist workers, cops clash, by Prem Nepali (kp), YCL seizes land of former DDC chairman (nn)

07/06/2007: YCL thrashes UML leader, headmaster (kp), Maoists beat up school teachers (kp), Local hands over Maoist ammo (kp), Maoist-close TRMM seizes royal land, by Prem Nepali (kp), Second-phase PLA verification likely to be cancelled (nn), Govt hands over Rs 92.5 million as salary for PLA (nn)

06/06/2007: 7 still languishing in Maoist labor camp (samn), YCL studying land encroachment issue (tg)

05/06/2007: Maoists want pay before verification (kp), Maoist MP slams corruption in party (samn), Maoist cadre shot dead in Rautahat (nn)

04/06/2007: Maoists to launch month-long Terai agitation (nn), YCL abducts Prasai (nn), Maoists arrest ace fraud protected by Nepal govt (wi), YCL hands Prasai over to police (nn), Prasai’s abduction draws PM’s wrath (nn 04/06/2007) [???], ‘Maoist cadre’ murders local, by Surendra Subedi (kp), Bhawang locals rally at HQ (kp), Second-phase PLA verification uncertain as Maoists set new 'condition' (nn)

03/06/2007: Unruly activities of Maoists continues unabated (nn), Villagers flee Maoist assault, by Kashiram Dangi (kp)

31/05/2007: Maoists led by lawmaker capture locals’ lands, by Kamal Panthi (kp), JMCC’s meet indecisive on key issues (nn)

30/05/2007: Battered students narrate ‘YCL terror’, by Amrita Anmol (kp)

29/05/2007: 20 injured as YCL, students clash, by Madhav Dhungana (kp 29/05/2007)

28/05/2007: Maoists storm RPP gathering in Parbat (nn), YCL men disrupt RPP meet, beat up cadres (kp), Maoists, NC-D cadres clash leaves 13 injured, 2 critical (nn), Maoists, NC-D cadres clash in Simikot, 15 injured (kp), Border customs point tense after YCL demo (kp), YCL assisting Yarsagumba trade, by Baburam Kharel (kp), Second stage verification to begin from mid-June (nn)

27/05/2007: YCL men nab colonel, hand over to cops (samn), Maoists force police post to relocate (nn)

26/05/2007: YCL washes off its hand from stoning incident (nn), NERF members, Maoists attack NTU teachers, by Prem Nepali (kp), Police nab three Maoist activists (nn)

25/05/2007: Camp management: A Step Forward, by Sanjaya Dhakal (sp), UNMIN to resume verification next week (kp), YCL to stop Gurkha recruitment (kp)

24/05/2007: Prachanda urges YCL to improve (nn), Prachanda asks YCL to mend its ways (samn), Govt, YCL raze illegal structures (samn), Young Communist League Or Young Criminal League, by Rajat KC (Scoop), JMCC meeting still inconclusive over verification date (nn), YCL to probe atrocities committed in its name (nn)

23/05/2007: YCL meet on to review its activities (nn), Maoists return some seized lands (kp), Maoists start returning land in Banke (samn), Maoists defy leaders’ instructions (kp)

22/05/2007: Maoists abduct school principal in Siraha (nn), Cabinet okays Maoist allowance: Rs 93.6m released for hutments (kp), Maoists padlock govt offices (kp)

21/05/2007: Maoists up land grab drive (kp), Cabinet to ok Rs 3,000 for combatants today, by Ghanashyam Ojha (kp), PLA men to get Rs 100 daily allowance (samn), JMCC to fix second-phase verification date Thursday (kp), Maoists mistreat NA soldier's family (kp), Army condemns attempts to terrorise families of soldiers (nn), Ilam cantonment to have 103 buildings for combatants (kp)

20/05/2007: Works and Physical Planning Ministry assigned to build camps (nn), YCL cadres intensify violent activities nationwide (nn), DAO employees call off agitation (kp), 1000 Maoist combatants occupy school, by Dipendra Baduwal (kp), YCL stops work on Koshi dam (samn), PLA men abduct, thrash youths in Chitwan (samn)

19/05/2007: Massive stir if no govt promise on upkeep of PLA, warns Prachanda (nn), 10 tons sandalwood seized (kp), YCL spurs furore in Jhapa (samn)

18/05/2007: Eight injured in Maoist-police scuffle in Kanchanpur (nn), YCL thrash medic, abduct 12 (kp), Ideological challenges to Maoists, by Khagendra N Sharma (kp), “A new war strategy”, interview with Nanda Kishore Pun (‘Pasang’), Maoist central committee member, PLA deputy commander, and vice-chair of the joint arms management committee(nt), I dissent, by Laxman Chaudhary (‘Roshan’) nt, originally in Nepal, 13 May)

17/05/2007: YCL’s high-handedness riles officials (samn), Unacceptable (kp) [Comrade Prachanda, stop and discipline your anarchist lot immediately if you really stand for peace and a new Nepal!!], Mahara 'defends' YCL activities (nn)