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Nepal protests Maoist 'murder'
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Prachanda said though the Maoists were morally responsible for the murder, it was committed by criminal elements who had infiltrated the party.
KATHMANDU: "You can't kill people. Punish the killers. Hang them." The streets of Kathmandu rang with such slogans as enraged crowds waved red banners and fought with riot police to enforce a strike called by the relatives and neighbours of a local businessman murdered by the Maoists, backed by student organisations as well as three of the ruling parties.
The Maoists are now back in the dock after it came to light that three soldiers of their People's Liberation Army (PLA) had forcibly taken a former sympathiser, businessman Ram Hari Shrestha, to their cantonment in Chitwan district in Nepal, where he was beaten to death.
The outraged protests that began last week after the discovery of the murder intensified on Wednesday with doctors at the Bharatpur medical college in Chitwan admitting that Maoists had brought a dying Shrestha to their emergency ward, where he collapsed soon after being admitted.
In a bid to hush up the murder, the guerrilla soldiers then dumped the body into a river. Residents of Koteshwor, the area in the city where the dead man lived, went on the warpath, staging public protests. The strike called by them demanding punishment for Shrestha's killers paralysed the capital as well as neighbouring Lalitpur and Bhaktapur cities.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Prachanda said though the Maoists were morally responsible for the murder, it was committed by criminal elements who had infiltrated the party.
The Maoists are now back in the dock after it came to light that three soldiers of their People's Liberation Army (PLA) had forcibly taken a former sympathiser, businessman Ram Hari Shrestha, to their cantonment in Chitwan district in Nepal, where he was beaten to death.
The outraged protests that began last week after the discovery of the murder intensified on Wednesday with doctors at the Bharatpur medical college in Chitwan admitting that Maoists had brought a dying Shrestha to their emergency ward, where he collapsed soon after being admitted.
In a bid to hush up the murder, the guerrilla soldiers then dumped the body into a river. Residents of Koteshwor, the area in the city where the dead man lived, went on the warpath, staging public protests. The strike called by them demanding punishment for Shrestha's killers paralysed the capital as well as neighbouring Lalitpur and Bhaktapur cities.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, Prachanda said though the Maoists were morally responsible for the murder, it was committed by criminal elements who had infiltrated the party.
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