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Maoists plan roadblock to shutdown Kathmandu KATHMANDU, Tuesday (AFP) Nepal's Maoists plan a two-day blockade of traffic starting Tuesday on a major road to and from capital Kathmandu in protest at the killing of four rebels, Maoist sources and a police official said. The roadblock will be centered where the rebels were killed last week in the district capital of Dhading, 90 kilometers (50 miles) west of the capital on the road leading to the tourist destination of Pokharan. Maoists want all business and government offices to close in the district capital as well as halt traffic, the sources and unnamed police official added. In August and September, strikes called by Maoist rebels shut down much of Nepal and caused prices of food and fuel to soar. At the time, Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba invited the Maoists to resume negotiations to end a conflict that has claimed more than 10,000 lives since 1996. But the Maoists declined to talk to Deuba and said they only wanted to meet King Gyanendra, the head of state. The king declined to talk to the rebels. The Maoists control much of the Himalayan kingdom and regularly attack government offices including bombing a state-run bank Sunday. |
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