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Sunday,13 November 2005 |
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Nepal court charges Maoist leaders with murder KATHMANDU, Nov 11 (AFP) - Nepal has charged 28 Maoist rebel leaders in absentia with the murder of a political party worker a year ago, a court official said Friday. Maoist party chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, alias Prachanda, was among those charged in an appellate court Thursday for killing Nepali Congress worker Sanjay Singh Dangol in November 2004. "The charge sheet was filed on Thursday," said the official, who declined to be named. "All of them have been accused of hatching a plot of murdering Sanjay Singh Dangol in Kirtipur" on the western outskirts of Kathmandu. Dangol, chairman of a Nepali Congress Kathmandu constituency, was shot dead in his house by suspected Maoist rebels in November 2004. The Maoist insurgency in the Himalayan kingdom has claimed more than 12,000 lives since 1996. The government has charged the Maoist leadership with other crimes in the past, including the assassination of the inspector general of the Armed Police Force. |
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