Village vigilantes, armed with axes, hunt suspected Nepal Maoists

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: April 12, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Somini Sengupta
International Herald Tribune
04-12-2005
In the fifth century B.C., this was where the Buddha came of age. Today, as this country sinks deeper into civil war, it is the epicenter of a violent tit for tat between villagers who support the Nepalese monarchy and their enemies in a Maoist insurgency. Since mid-February, in village after village in the Kapilavastu district of Nepal, ax-wielding vigilantes have attacked those they suspect of being Maoists; the rebels have retaliated by hunting down those they consider responsible. Thousands of villagers have fled across the nearby ...

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