Nepal’s Maoists welcomed Friday a decision by the United States government to remove their movement from its list of organisations supporting terrorism, stressing that the move would encourage them to stand firm about peace and democracy.
“We have adopted the path of peace, constitution and democracy and the decision of the U.S. government has proves us right,” local media quoted Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, who hails from the Maoist party, as saying.
In 2003, the US listed the Maoists as a terrorist organization, blocking its leaders from obtaining a US visa or conducting business transactions with the U.S.
Another Maoist leader, Foreign Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha, said the decision had opened new avenues of cooperation with Washington.
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of State said the Nepalese party had shown credible commitment to peace and reconciliation.
Maoists launched a decade-long insurgency in Nepal in 1996, during which more than 16,000 people were killed. The war ended with the signing of a peace deal with the government in 2006.
The party returned to mainstream politics in 2008.
Keywords: Nepal Maoists, Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), U.S. State Department, Specially Designated Terrorist Entity, Terrorist Exclusion List
US is fostering and fermenting counter India movements in NE, South,
Nepal, Pakistan, Gujarat to destabilize the country and create puppet
regimes . US never stood for democracy or capitalism but only for
itself. By adopting such moves which approve Insurgent based govts,
its giving legitimacy to movements such as Taliban and other guerrilla
factions which itself has been fighting in the decades from 1960S
Onward. Since past 3 days, its mouth piece WP has been targeting the
PMO, its funded NGOs and cyber criminals creating dissent in the
country and mass exodus.
Just because we didn't buy US made war fighting aircraft.
we need a PMO which is combination of Modi, Jayalalitha & maybe a
Thackery. But will they fall prey to the green dollars of USA??
It itself wages war against Islam & when the same minority faction
creates blood shed in India, USA manipulates the political climate &
prevents retribution, punishment and rule of the law.
Seems like US is in cahoots with Pak & China
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