"Nepal’s Dirty Little War: " Topic
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| Tango01 | 23 Feb 2015 9:21 p.m. PST |
"On February 1, 2005, Nepal's Shah King Gyanendra suspended the constitution, dissolved parliament, and assumed direct rule of a Hindu kingdom besieged by Maoist insurgency. Before severing communication lines and posting army personnel to the capital's newsrooms, the monarch lamented the fissiparous, stunting tendencies of competitive politics. According to Gyanendra, "Nepal's bitter experience over the past few years tends to show that democracy and progress contradict each other." When the King assumed direct rule, the country's decade-long war had entered a critical stage. A series of battles the previous year had demonstrated the strategic and operational parity of the Nepalese People's Liberation Army (PLA) and The Royal Nepal Army (RNA), despite the arms and training the latter received from foreign powers under the rubric of the Global War on Terror. Civilians continued to bear the brunt of a low-intensity conflict that was fought far outside the laws of war…"
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| Zargon | 24 Feb 2015 11:33 a.m. PST |
Another 'pearl' for China's necklace? |
 Legion 4   | 24 Feb 2015 12:07 p.m. PST |
Another Dirty Little War !?!?  |
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