Posted by: hurray June 10, 2005
Kanak Dixit's "Madi's Mass-Murder and the Future of Maobaad" article
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With this kind of violent path Maoists have followed, they will not get anywhere in the positive changes that claim to bring. When all is over, all the deaths will go for no use, and the nepalses citizens would have been immune to daily violence and brutal killings. Here's another incident: http://www.nepalnews.com.np/archive/2005/jun/jun10/news12.php Maoists attack a passenger bus; six security personnel, two civilians reported as killed Reports from Kavre district say Maoist insurgents on Friday have attacked a passenger bus in which security personnel were also travelling at a place called Narke along the B. P. highway in the district Friday afternoon. Security sources in the district said a group of armed insurgents?said to be hiding on hills near Narke river of the Dhulikhel-Nepalthok section of the B. P. highway?opened fire and also threw bombs at the bus at around five p. m. on Friday. Security personnel were traveling on the hood as well as inside the bus, according to reports. According to security sources, six security personnel and two civilians died in the attack. One of the civilians, who was killed in the attack, was a helper of a vehicle belonging to the Department of Roads that was traveling just behind the passenger bus, reports said quoting eyewitnesses. Reports said around two dozen people ? most of them security personnel-- traveling in the passenger bus were also injured in the assault. The casualty on the part of the rebels could not be immediately known. The driver of the bus?a civilian?was reportedly injured during clashes. Details are still awaited. There was no word from the authorities in Kathmandu till late Friday. On Monday, 39 persons?including three security personnel?were killed and over 70 civilians were injured when the Maoist insurgents cause landmine explosion targeting a passenger bus at Bandarmudhe in Chitwan district. Maoists later owned up responsibility for the incident and offered a public apology. International humanitarian law prohibits warring sides from attacking civilian targets under any pretext. It also prohibits security personnel from using civilian vehicles for the purpose of transport or for operations. nepalnews.com by June 10 05
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