Things are getting sticky

Walosi · Dec 4, 2001

Not the clearest news article I've read, but it sounds as if the gov't. has mug shots but not fingerprints of some of the Maoists, and they don't want the identities of some of their dead known. Or country of origin, or...?

http://www.nepalnews.com.np/archive/2001/december/arc300.htm

not2sharp · Dec 4, 2001

How do they know the 200 dead were Maoists? If they were, then who killed them; could China be covering it's tracks?

n2s

Walosi · Dec 4, 2001

As I said, not the clearest article I've ever read - apparently they got local information, recent cremations, etc. This evidently wasn't a battlefield body count. There was only one other article in the Nepal News links, which attributed the beheadings claim to a departing tourist who was interviewed at the airport, on his way home.

not2sharp · Dec 4, 2001

which attributed the beheadings claim to a departing tourist who was interviewed at the airport, on his way home.

Hehehehehe,

If Tisimi did it we will know soon enough. He will be bragging about his 200 new khukuries.

n2s

Walosi · Dec 4, 2001

If he shows up with a "special" on villagers......

Bill Martino · Dec 5, 2001

What the news says and what is in Nepal is often not the same.

Walosi · Dec 5, 2001

Originally posted by Bill Martino
What the news says and what is in Nepal is often not the same.

The same article is up this AM, but has been edited - seems this was after an RNA push into the area. Nepal News is definitely pro-gov't., but cross checks against other papers doesn't seem to vary much. Several of the "left leaning" sites just aren't there lately, but their kin in India are claiming the Maoists are pushing back the RNA. Others are reporting that entire Maoist cells to the east of Kat are turning themselves in, with their weapons. When it is finally over, or at least settled down, maybe we can get a nose count. Hopefully, all ours will be there to count.

beoram · Dec 5, 2001

Nepal rules out foreign troops

Bill Martino · Dec 5, 2001

Thanks, Beo.

beoram · Dec 5, 2001

Maoist rebels devastate idyllic Nepalese villages

Bushmaster · Dec 5, 2001

RE: How do they know the 200 dead were Maoists?

They are the ones lying on the ground, not moving.

Bill Martino · Dec 6, 2001

Salleri is where Yangdu went to High School. We got news of the attack via the Sherpa network before it appeared anywhere. Somebody at Phaplu was able to call out via phone, the news got to the Sherpas in NYC, and then to us.

We hear the haul from the bank robbery was worth about a million bucks cash and valuables combined. Not a bad nights' work for the Maoists.

Also heard there were more people killed than is being reported.