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Maoist supporters call indefinite strike at schools across Nepal KATHMANDU, Monday (AFP) Maoist rebel supporters vowed to shut down all schools across Nepal in the latest chaos for the Himalayan kingdom. The pro-Maoist All Nepal National Independent Students' Union-Revolutionary in a statement called an indefinite strike from June 6 to demand the government fulfil an agreement last year to bring down tuition fees at private schools. The strike would affect 5.4 million students at 38,757 schools across the kingdom, according to an education ministry official. Universities would not be affected. In the latest unrest, the state-run newspaper Rising Nepal said Maoists raided a school for underprivileged youth in the northwestern Jumla district Friday and abducted 184 students and six teachers. The report, quoting principal Kamal Ahmed, said the rebels took the students and teachers to an unknown location and were believed to have subjected them to an indoctrination session. "The teachers said they were set free after they were too tired to walk any farther. It is still not known how they reached Nepalgunj," the official said. |
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