“Now we have a new constitution but we are still waiting for the change the Maoists promised us. Personally, I have no hope left anymore,” the 39-year-old said.
After sweeping to victory in the 2008 polls, the former rebels soon came under fire for abandoning revolutionary ideals and developing a taste for luxury.
Nepal’s former Maoist rebels paid tribute to fallen comrades Saturday in a ceremony marking 20 years since the start of an insurgency that transformed the Himalayan nation from a Hindu monarchy to a secular republic.On 13 February, 1996, Maoist guerrillas attacked a police post in western Nepal’s Rolpa district, launching a decade-long civil war that eventually claimed some 16,000 lives and left hundreds of people missing.
Hundreds of Maoist cadres gathered at the party’s office in Kathmandu, waving red flags as senior leaders placed garlands on the “martyr’s pillar” — a monument built to honour fallen and missing combatants.“Many people lost their lives, many went missing or became disabled so things would change in this country,” Rina Tamang, a shopkeeper in Kathmandu, said.
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