Trouble in Nepal

A communist candidate for an assembly aimed at rewriting the national constitution in Nepal was killed on Tuesday two days ahead of national elections. This sparked violence between “former” communist rebels and police and at least 1 person was killed when police opened fire.

From FoxNews.com:

Police opened fire on rampaging protesters in western Nepal on Wednesday, killing at least one a day ahead of a landmark election to chart the country’s political future, a police official said.

The protesters, enraged by the slaying of a candidate a day earlier, began smashing stores and vandalizing buses in the mountainous Surkhet district, prompting police to fire at them with live ammunition, said the area’s police chief, Ram Kumar Khanal.

The protesters were defying a curfew imposed in the area following the killing Tuesday of the candidate, Khanal said. One of the protesters was killed Wednesday, he said.

The candidate? Rishi Prasad Sharma of the Communist Party of Nepal United Marxist Leninist was killed on Tuesday by an “unknown gunman in Jahare Bazar town in Surkhet district” according to Government Administrator Anil Pandey.

The elections originally scheduled for Thursday have been suspended are were to be part of a peace agreement with a Communist rebel group known as the Maoists.

I find it interesting that at a time when the whole world is protesting Communist China’s occupation of Tibet that neighboring Nepal would actually recognize Communists as a legitimate political party within their system. I mean, aren’t they worried that any Communist elected officials would be puppets of, I don’t know, Communist China?!?

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