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Nepal:
IDPs still waiting for help, despite peace accord
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IRIN,
6 August 2008
Thousands
of people displaced by Nepal's decade-long Maoist conflict still await
help almost 21 months since a comprehensive peace accord was signed.
"The
Maoist rebels killed my daughter and announced my death by hanging, and
they still continue with their threats," Dig Bahadur Gurung, a political
worker who has lived as an internally displaced person (IDP) for eight
years after refusing to support the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist, said.
The
Maoists are today the largest elected party in the Constituent Assembly
but a large number of IDPs live in constant fear of the former rebels,
despite their leaders' commitment to allow them to return to their homes
safely.
On
21 November 2006, the Maoists and the Seven-Party Alliance-led government
signed a historic peace agreement to officially end the armed "People's
War" - a bloody conflict that killed 13,000 and displaced an estimated
200,000.
Credit
IRIN 2008
Copyright
© UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 2008
[
This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations]
Integrated
Regional Information Networks (IRIN), part of the UN Office for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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