Forgot your password?
US Removed Nepalese Maoists From The List Of Designated Terrorist Organizations
By KTM Metro Reporter
September 6, 2012: the United States today removed the ruling Maoist party from the list of designated terrorist organizations. The State Department stated that after a thorough review of the party’s activities, it has been no longer engaged in terrorist activity that threatens the security of US nationals or US foreign policy.
The United States had designated the CPN-Maoist a global terrorist entity in 2003 and added to the terrorist exclusion list the next year stating the CPN-Maoist was engaged in a violent war with the Nepalese government.
US organizations and companies can now conduct business with the Nepalese Maoist leadership, and any property or interests that have been frozen in the United States are no longer blocked.
The then CPN-Maoist had reached a Comprehensive Peace Agreement with the Government of Nepal and laid down its arms and kept its army cantonments for integrating with the Nepal Army in 2006. The "people's war" lasted for a decade: 1996-2006, and 15,000 to 20,000 people have lost their lives. Whereabouts of more than 1,500 people made enforced disappearances are still unknown. Their loved ones have been anguishing over not knowing their whereabouts.
Currently, the coalition of the Maoists and the Madheshis are running the Nepalese administration. The then CPN-Maoist became the UCPN-Maoist. Now, a faction of the UCPN-Maoist has become a CPN-Maoist again.
