PARTIES DIFFER ON USE OF TERMINOLOGY PEOPLE'S WAR, ARMED CONFLICT

PARTIES DIFFER ON TERMINOLOGY PEOPLE’S WAR
AND ARMED CONFLICT
Kathmandu, 20 Dec.: Parties at a Prachanda sub-committee on
resolution of differences on themes to be incorporated in a
delayed constitution by a new 28 May deadline couldn’t agree Tuesday whether the Maoist 10-year insurgency that claimed 17,000 plus lives on both sides of the civil war was an armed conflict or a people’s
war.
Maoists claim and call it a ‘people’ war’.
The party leading the government insisted it be defined as a
people’s war in a basic law opposed by other parties.
The Prachanda sub-committee meets again Thursday
following the disagreement.
The Maoist chief confirmed differences Tuesday on the
terminology
Maoists establishment took the position amid charges by a Maoist Baidya group that accused Chairman Prachanda and Premier Baburam
Bhattarai for abandoning communist ideology.
The main constitution drafting committee headed by Nilambar
Acharya meets Wednesday after it didn’t meet Monday because of a NC strike.
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FORMER DIRECTOR OF SANIMA DEVELOPMENT BANK ARRESTED
Kathmandu, 20 Dec.: Pankaj Adhikari, was arrested in
Malanghwa, SiIraha, Tuesday.
He’s a former director of Sanima Development Bank which has
received Nepal Rashtra Bank permission to be upgraded to a commercial bank.
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