Maoist Chairman Prachanda in NewYork Times
The voluble chief of Nepal’s Maoist guerrillas rejected the notion that his troops would disarm before elections, as many insurgent armies have done across the world. He demanded instead that his troops be sequestered and kept under international supervision, but only if the Royal Nepalese Army agreed to the same treatment.
Nepal’s rebel leader, Prachanda, says he fears the government wants to "marginalize" the Maoist movement. We are not exactly an armed group like in other places in the current world," declared (more…)
