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Aug
05
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Conflict victims: The Government has decided to provide compensation
to family members of those killed in the Maoist insurgency and release
unpaid wages to members of the Maoist rebel army. |
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Aug
13
2008
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PLA Allowances: The Government announced that People's Liberation
Army (PLA) combatants living in seven cantonments in different parts of
Nepal will get their allowances of 19 months soon. |
Aug
14
2008
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IDPs: Thousands of people displaced by Nepal's decade-long Maoist conflict
still await help almost 21 months since a comprehensive peace accord was
signed. |
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Aug
15
2008
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New Prime Minister: Members of the parliament have elected the CPN-Maoist
leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda) as the first Prime Minister of the
Federal Republic of Nepal. Prachanda won 80%
of votes to defeat the Congress Party candidate S. B. Deuba.
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Congratulation: The UN Secretary-General warmly congratulates Mr. Pushpa
Kamal Dahal on his election as the first Prime Minister of the Federal
Republic of Nepal. He calls on all parties to cooperate with the new government
in order to carry forward Nepal's peace process. |
Aug
30
2008
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Missing persons: On
the International Day of the Disappeared (30 Aug 2008), the International
Committee of the Red Cross is appealing to the government of Nepal to clarify
the fate of those who went missing during the country's 10-year internal
conflict.
The
ICRC and the Nepal Red Cross Society are publishing the names of more than
1200 people reported as missing by their relatives between 1996 and 2006. |
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