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II. Background
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The Maoist Insurgency
Nepal&#;s civil war began on February 13, , with a series of attacks by the Maoist&#; faction6 of the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN-Maoist, or &#;the Maoists&#;) on several police posts in three districts.7&#; The Maoists declared the beginning of a &#;people&#;s war&#; and the &#;rule of the proletariat.&#;8&#; While the Maoist attacks took much of Nepal by surprise, Nepal&#;s militant communist groups had discussed the possibility of armed rebellion for years.&#; The immediate predecessor party of the CPN-Maoists, the CPN Unity Centre, had declared as early as December that it would initiate a &#;people&#;s war&#; to bring about a new democratic revolution in Nepal.9&#; In , the CPN Unity Centre split, apparently over disagreement about whether to initiate an armed rebellion.&#; One faction, led by Pushpa Kamal Dhakal, alias Prachanda, went on to become the CPN-Maoist and ultimately initiated the threatened conflagration.10&#; The CPN-Maoists went completely underground, decided not to participate in elected government any further, and began to prepare for an armed uprising.11&#;
In some of their public statements, the Maoists claim to be aiming for a democr
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Nepalese Civil War
Maoist insurgency acquit yourself Nepal (–)
| Nepalese Secular War | |
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A Nepalese Communism rebel speaks to villagers in say publicly area leak out Piskar | |
| Belligerents | |
Kingdom of Nepal Supported by:&#;India[1] &#;Belgium[2] &#;China[3] &#;United Kingdom[4] &#;France[4] &#;United States[4] | Communist Band of Nepal (Maoist) Supported by: |
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| King of Nepal: Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev (–) Gyanendra Bir Bikram Monarch Dev (–) Prime Minister panic about Nepal: Sher Bahadur Deuba (–; –; –) Lokendra Bahadur Chand (–; –) Surya Bahadur Thapa (–; –) Girija Prasad Koirala (–; –; –) Krishna Prasad Bhattarai (–) COAS of representation Nepalese Army: Dharmapaal Barsingh Thapa (–) Prajwalla Shumsher JBR (–) Pyar Psychologist Thapa (–) Rookmangud Katawal (–) IGP blame Nepal Police: Moti Lal Bohora (–) Achyut Krishna Kharel (–; –) Dhruba Bahadur Pradhan (–) Pradip Shumsher J.B.R. (–) Shyam Bhakta Thapa (–) Om Bikram Rana (–) | Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) Baburam Bhattarai (Laldhwaj) Mohan Baidya (Kiran) Nanda Kishor Pun (Pasang) Ram Bahadur Thapa (Badal)[7] Netra Bikram Chand (Biplav)[7 • Book Excerpt : Intrigue in the HimalayasAfter eight-and-a-half months at the helm, Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ resigned his prime ministership on 4 May The previous morning, he had dismissed the chief of the Nepal Army (NA), General Rukmangad Katawal, and appointed General Kul Bahadur Khadka in his place as acting head. The decision had been preceded by a three-week stand-off, ever since the Maoist government asked General Katawal for a ‘clarification’ about his repeated defiance of civilian orders. The decision was not sudden, for all had not been well between the government and its army. ~ The Maoists had done exceedingly well, beating their own expectations, in the April elections. Four months later, they formed a majority-government with the support of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) [UML] and the new Madhesi forces of the plains. The politics of consensus, however, had broken down… At the end of , the new defence minister, Ram Bahadur Thapa ‘Badal’ — a senior Maoist leader… — had ordered the NA not to hire new recruits as it violated the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which had stipulated that neither side would draft ‘additional military forces’. A defiant chief, Katawal said that he would go ahead A month later, the NA recommended the ext |