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Movement of the Maoist guerillas into holding camps, confinement of the Nepalese army to its barracks, the inclusion of the Maoists in a new interim legislature and government, and the holding of elections for a constituent assembly had been the main points of agreements reached in 2006 between the Maoists, who had been conducting an insurgency since 1996, and the Seven Party Alliance SPA, which had accepted the parliamentary system set up in 1990. These agreements had been negotiated after the Maoists declared a ceasefire in the wake of the April 2006People's Movementin which the Maoists and other political parties had cooperated to force King Gyanen- dra to end his direct rule and revive the Parliament dissolved in 2002. Full sovereign power had been transferred from the king to the recalled Parliament, and Nepali Congress leader Girija Koirala had become prime minister, heading a coalition in which the Congress itself and the UML, the largest of the parliamentary c
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Movement of the Maoist guerillas into holding camps, confinement of the Nepalese army to its barracks, the inclusion of the Maoists in a new interim legislature and government, and the holding of elections for a constituent assembly had been the main points of agreements reached in 2006 between the Maoists - who had been conducting an insurgency since 1996 - and the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) - which had accepted the parliamentary system set up in 1990. These agreements had been negotiated after the Maoists declared a ceasefire in the wake of the April 2006"People's Movement"in which the Maoists and other political parties had cooperated to force King Gyanen- dra to end his direct rule and revive the Parliament dissolved in 2002. Full sovereign power had been transferred from the king to the recalled Parliament, and Nepali Congress leader Girija Koirala had become prime minister, heading a coalition in which the Congress itself and the UML - the largest of the parliamentary communist parties - had been the principal partners. The monarchy's future was to be decided by the constituent assembly.
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The hybrid termlegislature-parliamentwas a compromise between the Nepali Congress's wish to retain the title Sansad (Parliament) and the Maoists' objection to it, as implying continuity with the 1990 Constitution.
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The hybrid term"legislature-parliament"was a compromise between the Nepali Congress's wish to retain the title Sansad (Parliament) and the Maoists' objection to it, as implying continuity with the 1990 Constitution.
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See the report at
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See the report at 〈http://www.ohchr.org/english/press/docs/gaur. pdf〉.
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See Ajit Tiwari,Terror in the Tarai,Nepali Times, no. 347 (4-10/5/07), at 〈www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/journals/ nepalitimes/pdf/Nepali-Times-347.pdf〉, accessed November 22, 2007. High profile killings included that of an education official by the Goit group in Bara on April 17 (see 〈http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid= 106936〉, accessed November 23, 2007) and of a Village Development Committee secretary in Siraha by Jwala Singh's faction on July 18 (see 〈http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=116414〉, accessed November 23, 2007). For the exodus, see Kathmandu Post, August 5, 2007.
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See Ajit Tiwari,"Terror in the Tarai,"Nepali Times, no. 347 (4-10/5/07), at 〈www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/journals/ nepalitimes/pdf/Nepali-Times-347.pdf〉, accessed November 22, 2007. High profile killings included that of an education official by the Goit group in Bara on April 17 (see 〈http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid= 106936〉, accessed November 23, 2007) and of a Village Development Committee secretary in Siraha by Jwala Singh's faction on July 18 (see 〈http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=116414〉, accessed November 23, 2007). For the exodus, see Kathmandu Post, August 5, 2007.
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The Maoists' championing of ethnic and regional rights had earlier attracted support from a wide spectrum of groups in the Tarai, including some members of the relatively prosperous Yadav caste. When many Yadavs switched to the MJF, members of lower castes in the Tarai - who resented their own subordination to the Yadavs within the region - tended to stay with the Maoists. Jwala Singh (a Dalit) broke away from Goit's JTMM faction, accusing Goit (a Yadav) of favoring his own caste.
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The Maoists' championing of ethnic and regional rights had earlier attracted support from a wide spectrum of groups in the Tarai, including some members of the relatively prosperous Yadav caste. When many Yadavs switched to the MJF, members of lower castes in the Tarai - who resented their own subordination to the Yadavs within the region - tended to stay with the Maoists. Jwala Singh (a Dalit) broke away from Goit's JTMM faction, accusing Goit (a Yadav) of favoring his own caste.
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The total is more than 100% because of overlapping categories
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The total is more than 100% because of overlapping categories.
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