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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (17077)	9/22/2000 6:50:00 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

This will gladden your lefty heart: 21st century Maoists Over 150 strikers arrested during day-long strike KATHMANDU, Sept 21 (AFP) - At least 150 strikers were arrested throughout Nepal during a day-long strike called by nine left-wing parties, a home ministry spokesman said Thursday. "Except for a few incidents in Kathmandu and at Bardibas and Trigoli in Chitaun, the strike went peacefully," a home ministry spokesman Gopendra Bahadur Pandey said. Bardibas is 190 kilometres (119 miles) east of here and Chitaun is 220 kilometres (190 miles) southwest of Kathmandu. About 150 communists were arrested for stoning a bus, a car and an auto-rickshaw. The strikers also allegedly attacked a truck with a mololov cocktail at Trigoli, seriously injuring the driver and passenger. Police clashed with strikers who were blocking the Bardibas highway, and at least five policemen were injured. The strike virtually brought the capital to a grinding halt, witnesses said. All the shops were closed while the streets, which normally overflowed with traffic, were deserted. All the government officials, bank employees and other institutions were seen walking to their destinations. Small demonstrations were held in various parts of the kingdom. The nine left-wing parties have called the strike to protest against administrative corruption, nepotism, deteriorating law and order and allegedly "unequal treaties with India. Thursday's strike was supported by the underground Nepal Communist Party-Maoist though it is among the nine parties. The Maoists have been waging a bloody war in far western and western Nepal since 1996 to overturn the constitutional monarchy and multi-party democracy. In clashes between the rebels and police so far, more than 1,388 people have already been killed. english.hk.dailynews.yahoo.com