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KATHMANDU: The top two leaders of Nepal's Maoist party are currently in eastern India, media reports in Kathmandu said. Pushpa Kamal Dahal, alias Prachanda, chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist as well as supreme commander of the rebels' guerrilla army, the People's Liberation Army, and his deputy, architect-turned rebel Baburam Bhattarai, arrived in Siliguri town in West Bengal Friday evening, Nepali newspapers said on Saturday. After a brief halt in Jhapa district in eastern Nepal, on the India-Nepal border, where they held consultations with party leaders, the rebel leaders headed for Siliguri. Accompanying them are senior leader of the...

Nepal to seize royal lands, king to be "normal citizen" by Deepesh Shrestha Sat Aug 5, 2006 Nepal plans to seize lands owned by King Gyanendra and other royal family members and distribute them to the poor as it moves toward treating the monarch like a "normal citizen," a minister said. Legislation limiting the amount of property the king can hold will be drafted once an inventory of royal properties is completed, Land Reforms Minister Prabhu Narayan Chaudhary said on Saturday in Kathmandu, the capital of the impoverished Himalayan nation. "The seized royal property will be nationalized and handed over...

St. Petersburg, July 17: Opening the first ever India-Russia-China summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin today said the three neighbouring nuclear powers have "practically identical" views on major global problems and expressed satisfaction at the coordination of efforts by them. "Our approaches on key world problems are very close or as the diplomats say, practically identical," Putin said opening the trilateral meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese President Hu Jintao. Putin expressed satisfaction that the three powers of the same region "manage to coordinate their efforts on the international scene." Hosting his Indian and Chinese colleagues in the ornate...

The Indian government is experimenting with new ways of fighting back against Maoist fighters, who now operate in almost half of the country's 28 states. In the past year, the Chhattisgarh state government has introduced new anti-terrorism training for the police - and is backing a civil militia called Salwa Judum. The BBC's Jill McGivering spent three days travelling with Maoist fighters in the jungles of Chhattisgarh. Villagers train to counter Maoists Villagers joined the civil militia to defend themselves from Maoists Driving through Chhattisgarh at dawn, we saw a group of villagers by the road, shouldering sticks as...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's Maoist rebel leader held ground-breaking talks on Friday with the government, which agreed to dissolve parliament and set up an interim administration to include the rebels. Rebel chief Prachanda said after nearly 10 hours of talks with Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and political party leaders that an interim constitution will be prepared within three weeks and later a new interim government will be formed. "I am proud ... because the decision we have taken is a historic one," he told reporters. Maoists also promised to dissolve their parallel governments around the countryside. Prachanda was speaking...

Nepal’s political landscape, over the last several weeks, has experienced cataclysmic changes. Particularly in the wake of second mass movement, this country seems awakening from a deep slumber. Centuries old institution of monarchy, that once used to command spontaneous respect, has been a redundant object of widespread vilification. The king once revered as the incarnation of Lord Bishnu has been reduced to a nondescript entity. The exceptional diminution of the king has left both his relatives and supporters susceptible to growing obloquy mixed with political vendetta. Under the massive pressure of popular uprising the king was bound to reinstate the...

KATHMANDU, May 23 (Reuters) - A Nepali Maoist leader on Tuesday urged the constitution be thrown out, parliament dissolved and an interim government including the rebels formed before elections are held to map the nation's future. "We are going to have a new constitution. But how can you have that without abrogating the old one?" asked Krishsna Bahadur Mahara two days after arriving in the Nepali capital to lead a three-member team in talks with a caretaker government. The talks are to pave the way for a meeting between reclusive Maoist chief Prachanda and Prime Minister Girija Prasasd Koirala, appointed...

Dozens of companies in southern Nepal have suspended operations saying they cannot cope with acts of financial extortion by Maoist rebels. The Maoists appear to be stepping up a campaign of forced donations despite their declaration of a three-month ceasefire in the decade-long conflict. Reports say Dabur Nepal, one of the country's biggest companies, has had demands from Maoist trade unionists. The rebels' trade union branch has denied demanding any money. During their earlier ceasefires the Maoists have had a track record of continuing extortion and even recruitment to their ranks. Now, nearly a month into the new ceasefire, the...

The Marxists of India are running with the hare, and hunting with the hounds. At a time the Maoist guerillas are wreaking havoc across central India, a CPI leader, Atul Kumar Anjaan, advises government of India to release 60-70 Nepali Maoists leaders lodged in Indian jails. Sitaram Yechuri, who attended the opening session of the Nepali Mahapanchayat, has also said that the CPI (M) would pressurise the Indian government to release the Nepali Maoists languishing in jails of India. The idea is a brainchild of Baburam Bhattarai, who heads the International Department of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist, and offered...

As Nepal moves towards a new order, its governing parliamentarians would do well to heed that most fundamental of maxims: hope is not a method. To date, events have gone reasonably smoothly, but there continue to be ominous signs that a rougher road lies ahead. Not least of the elements for concern is what has been at the heart of the matter all along: the motives of the Maoist insurgents. Contrary to much ill-considered opinion, the Maoists have not opted for peace in our time. Instead, their forces remain intact, even as they encourage the Government to dismantle the only...

We are still a long way off from seeing the votes being cast, leave alone their being counted and legislators sworn in, but one thing seems to be reasonably clear: the Communists have seized control of three vital territories. All three are on the periphery of the Indian heartland -- West Bengal, Kerala, and Nepal. And, to a lesser or a greater extent, they have been deliberately gifted away by Sonia Gandhi and her hand-picked nominee as prime minister. To start with West Bengal, this is -- or soon shall be -- the site of a legitimate Left Front victory....

RAIPUR, India, April 29 (Reuters) - Maoist rebels in India released 25 tribal villagers unharmed on Saturday after killing 15 others in the restive central state of Chhattisgarh, police said on Saturday. The rebels had kidnapped a group of 40 villagers, part of a government-backed anti-Maoist group, earlier this week. Earlier on Saturday, police in Chhattisgarh discovered the bodies of 13 hostages. "The bodies had multiple wounds and rebels killed them by slitting their throats," senior police officer Praveer Das told Reuters. The bodies were found deep in the forest, around 20 km (12 miles) from a government-run relief camp...

SOUTHERN LUZON, Philippines, April 29 (Reuters) - From his coconut leaf hut deep in the forest, Gregorio Rosal, one of the Philippine's most-wanted men, smiles in admiration at the recent success of Nepal's Maoist rebels. "Their advance has been inspiring," the chief spokesman for the communist insurgent New People's Army (NPA) told Reuters. "The protracted people's war that Mao practiced in China." Nepal's rebels loosely aligned themselves with mainstream political parties and forced the autocratic king to cede power this week. The NPA, waging the world's longest-communist insurgency, wants a similar tie-up with disgruntled soldiers and political opposition groups to...

MAOIST rebels in India slit the throats of 13 of 40 tribal villagers abducted earlier this week in the restive central state of Chhattisgarh, police said today. The killings are the latest in a series in some of the dozen or so states where Maoist guerrillas operate. The bodies were found deep in the forest 22km from a government-run relief camp which was near the spot where the group had been taken hostage at gunpoint in revolt-hit Dantewada district. "The bodies had multiple wounds and rebels killed them by slitting their throats," district police chief Praveer Das said. Yesterday, police...

As Nepal catches its collective breath after weeks of turmoil, renewed attention is focusing on the country's Maoist rebels and their decade-long violent insurrection aimed at toppling the monarchy in favour of a communist republic. In the view of some analysts, the Maoists have the upper hand politically now that King Gyanendra has bowed to popular pressure -- applied in part by their alliance of convenience with mainstream political parties -- and has begun ceding absolutist rule. Yesterday, the King appointed Girija Prasad Koirala, a feeble and sickly 84-year-old politician, as Prime Minister as the first step to restoring multiparty...

US orders its citizens to leave Nepal Kantipur Report http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=71887 KATHMANDU, April 24 - The embassy of the United States in Kathmandu on Monday has ordered mission family members, US employees and citizens to leave the country due to the deteriorating situation and ongoing security concerns after 18 days of pro-democracy movement and general strikes. "Under ordered departure, mission family members and non-emergency American employees would depart Nepal as soon as possible. American citizens should also depart Nepal as soon as possible," the embassy said in a statement. At least 14 people have been killed and hundreds other injured across...

I called my family back in Kathmandu today. Everybody is scared and everything is in chaos. Armed Maoist outsiders have infiltrated the valley, like textbook Communist takeover, and every neighborhood from what I hear is in virtual lockdown. Maoists are knocking at every house to take young men out to fight the police and the army for the final takeover. My family is in the area already known to have Maoist infiltrators. The number of strange faces in the slums and thugs roaming the streets at night have increased significantly in the last couple of hours. My cousins are in...

Hundreds of Maoist rebels have stormed a town in eastern Nepal and fought a six-hour gun battle with security forces, a senior government official says. He says there is no word yet on casualties as communication links have been cut with the town of Chautara, about 100km east of the capital Kathmandu. The attack comes as the country's main political parties continue major street protests against King Gyanendra, who sacked the government and took full powers in February 2005. The parties have entered a loose alliance with the Maoists against the king.

Even as I write, events in Nepal unfold as if a Broadway play - nary a miscue from the script passed out months ago in the Nepalese media. Having declared a "ceasefire inside the Kathmandu Valley," thus to gain the media "spin" that would necessarily come from "peaceful protestors" being "attacked," the Maoists proceeded elsewhere in the country to attack positions. The Butwal attack is only the most recent example. Open use of violence "outside" the urban centers has been accompanied by orchestrated rioting "inside." That the foreign media (with the help of the anti-government sectors in the Nepali media)...

Nepal has been under seige from Maoist rebels for about 3 years now; but to Reuters and the Associated Press,the rebels are "pro-democracy" protestors. AP moans that "Nepalese Police Have Killed 3 More Protestors" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/nepal;_ylt=AvaGe3ZYhqKvtkOqn60GF1qs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ-- Reuters grumbles that police have imposed a curfew to prevent protests... http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1969978.htm Although both agencies have reported bombings and murders committed by Maoist guerrillas in the past, you will see no hint of that in today's stories. Clearly, the Maoist thugs have been transmorgified into peaceful protestors ! Aren't you GLAD ??

Believes that North America was unjustly "stolen" from its rightful owners by white Europeans Rejects the legitimacy of any North or Central American nation named or established by Europeans Advocates open borders Accuses white Europeans of committing genocide against indigenous inhabitants of North America Calls for the expulsion of all whites from North America The large-scale immigration marches of recent weeks -- most notably the March 25 rally in Los Angeles which drew at least 500,000 participants -- have uniformly condemned HR 4437, sponsored by Wisconsin Republican James Sensenbrenner. This legislation would make it a felony to violate U.S. immigration...

India to act tough against Nepal king NEW DELHI: As violence in Nepal escalates and the crackdown on anti-government protesters gets harsher, New Delhi is getting ready to back up strong words with tough steps to push for the restoration of multi-party democracy in the Himalayan kingdom. "We will have to go beyond merely tough talk. If the situation doesn't improve, we will have to take some tough action," a high-level official source said. "We have many levers to call Nepal's king to account. The only problem is that such measures might give some sections in Nepal fodder for...

That he has managed to get Marxist leader Sitaram Yechury, former National Security Adviser Brajesh Mishra and US President George W. Bush on the same side of the debate on Nepal reveals all you need to know about King Gyanendra’s ham-handed power play in the Himalayan kingdom. Since a shocking regicide put him in charge of Nepal’s destiny in June 2001, Gyanendra’s burning desire to restore royal absolutism has consistently outpaced his judgment on the prospects for his own survival or the collective interests of his country. Most authoritarian rulers extend their rule either by mobilising valuable external support or...

BHANUPRATAPUR FOREST RESERVE, India — The gray light of dawn broke over the bamboo forest as the People's Liberation Guerrilla Army prepared for a new day. With transistor radios tucked under their arms, the soldiers listened to the morning news and brushed their teeth. A few young recruits busied themselves making a remote-control detonator for explosives. The company commander, Gopanna Markam, patiently shaved. "We have made the people aware of how to change your life through armed struggle, not the ballot," said Mr. Markam, who is in his mid-40's, describing his troops' accomplishments. "This is a people's war, a protracted...

While harping repeatedly on India's "twin-pillar policy" towards Nepal, that of constitutional monarchy and multi-party parliamentary democracy - India has chosen to openly give sanctuary to the Nepali Maoists who seek a classless, casteless, totalitarian republic that caters dangerously to ethno-nationalism to secure its final ends. And to add injury to insult, they have facilitated the Maoists (whom they declared as "terrorists" even before Nepal did so in 2001) to join hands with the seven major political parties in New Delhi over two understandings. Agreement was reached on ushering in "total democracy" while encouraging the Maoists to delve into joint...

India and the United States seem to be working at cross-purposes in carrying forward their strategic interests in Nepal. While the US is supporting King Gyanendra and flirting with idea of supplying arms to the Royal Nepal Army to strengthen the hands of the monarch, India is covertly bridging the gaps between the seven party alliance and Maoist extremists who are locked in a deadly war with the establishment headed by the king. The Maoists on Monday announced a unilateral indefinite ceasefire in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, ahead of this week's massive pro-democracy protests against King Gyanendra's regime. But the...

Under pressure to crack down on a Maoist rebellion, Manmohan Singh, India’s prime minister, will review counter-insurgency plans at a meeting with state chief ministers to be held on April 13. In the wake of a recent hijacking of a train by Maoists in the northern state of Jharkand and the storming of a jail in neighbouring Bihar, Mr Singh has been criticised for failing to prevent the collapse of local government in vast swathes of the country. Thirteen state governments met in New Delhi on Friday to thrash out a strategy to combat Maoist guerrillas operating with increasing impunity...

Raipur - Maoist rebels slit the throats of four members of an anti-Maoist group and shot dead two policemen in separate attacks in two Indian states, police said on Friday. The incidents are the latest in a series of violent attacks by the leftist radicals. In the central Chhattisgarh state, Maoists rebels attacked tribal members of the Salwa Judum (March for Peace), a government-backed anti-rebel group. "This triggered panic among the local tribal population in the area," said S K Paswan, a senior police officer. The killings took place overnight in the Bastar region of the state, more than 300km...

Aucayacu - Peru's brutal rebel movement, the Shining Path, long thought to be all but extinct, is on the warpath again, boosted by an alliance with drug traffickers. Its Maoist guerrillas almost vanished after the capture of their founder and leader, Abimael Guzman, in 1993, with only a few hundred left sheltering in remote highlands. But those mountains are now the setting for a dramatic growth in cultivating coca to produce cocaine, and veteran fighters are now serving new masters, the drug barons. The Shining Path once forced the whole country to its knees in a war that claimed 70,000...

DORNAPAL, India (Reuters) - Clutching their bows and arrows, a group of tribesmen and young boys mill around outside a crude refugee camp in the forests of central India. Prompted by politicians and prodded by the police, more than 46,000 people have fled their villages in the past nine months to join a new campaign against Maoist guerrillas, or Naxalites, who have added misery and terror to their crushing poverty. "Twenty-five years ago, the Naxalites promised us land, they promised us a better life, but they have given us nothing," said 34-year-old Kiche Rama. "All they are doing is killing...

Maoists killed two civilians and abducted at least 18 more including 15 school girls in Nepal over the past few days, Ministry of Defense said Saturday. Maoists shot dead Ved Bahadur Lama of Dhalkebar of the south-eastern district of Dhanusha on Saturday. Another civilian, Shankar Mallaha of Rupauliya Bazaar in the south-western district of Nawalparasi district, was killed on Friday. It is yet unclear why the civilians were targeted. Further west, 15 girl students below the age of 15 were whisked away from Satya Secondary School at Pandusen village in Bajura district. Two more civilians from the same village were...

KATHMANDU, 3 March (IRIN) - The United Nations in Nepal expressed serious concern on Friday over the attack a day earlier on the World Food Programme (WFP) office in the town of Damak, nearly 700 km east of the capital, Kathmandu. Two bombs exploded in WFP's compound. "The UN strongly condemns such attack which violates international humanitarian law and basic operating guidelines," said the statement released by the UN system in Nepal. Although there were no casualties or damage, the UN offices in Damak have closed and will open following an investigation into the attack. Three government buildings in the...

Reuters - INDIAN MAOISTS KILL 50 PEOPLE IN LANDMINE BLAST - POLICE

Storm the White House Multi-Day Event, Beginning March 15, come when you can and stay as long as you can - we are taking over the White House until they leave. Torture, Occupation, Genocide - Must End Now. Wednesday, March 15th 2006 12:00 AM Washington, DC USA TAKE THE WHITE HOUSE BY STORM - Stop Genocide, Torture and Occupation For Nat Turner, For Martin and Coretta, For all the Torture and Assassination in Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti and many others - We will not allow the Slave Holders that Still Prevail in this Country to Rule us any longer. Imprisonment and...

Events RSVP Storm the White House Multi-Day Event, Beginning March 15, come when you can and stay as long as you can - we are taking over the White House until they leave. Torture, Occupation, Genocide - Must End Now. Wednesday, March 15th 2006 12:00 AM Washington, DC USA TAKE THE WHITE HOUSE BY STORM - Stop Genocide, Torture and Occupation U.N. SOS - We need your help to end the reign of international criminals. It is our duty and the duty of the United Nations to rescue the people of the world from the U.S. dictators. Murder for occupation...

From the Moonbats themselves SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 2006 NEW YORK CITY Unite for change - let's turn our country around! The times are urgent and we must act. Too much is too wrong in this country. We have a foreign policy that is foreign to our core values, and domestic policies wreaking havoc at home. It's time for a change. INITIATING ORGANIZATIONS: United for Peace and Justice, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, International ANSWER/NYC chapter, National Organization for Women, Friends of the Earth, U.S. Labor Against the War, Climate Crisis Coalition, People's Hurricane Relief Fund, National Youth and Student Peace Coalition, Veterans for...

King of Nepal calls for talks on democracy (Filed: 20/02/2006) Nepal's King Gyanendra made his first formal approach to the country's estranged political parties yesterday, urging them to join talks and try to put democracy back on track a year after he seized absolute power and fired the government. "We, therefore, call on all willing political parties to come forth to fully activate, at the earliest, the stalled democratic process in the greater interest of the nation," King Gyanendra said in a national democracy day statement. The king also urged anti-monarchy Maoist rebels to shun violence and rejoin the mainstream....

WASHINGTON: The United States has slammed the elections in Nepal as a "hollow attempt on the part of the King to legitimise power" and said the only way to deal with the Maoist problem is to restore democracy in the Himalayan Kingdom. "The United States believes Nepal's Municipal elections called by the King on Thursday represented a hollow attempt to legitimize power," the state department spokesman Sean McCormack said on Wednesday. He said there was a clear lack of public support for the elections and the voter turnout in the capital is estimated under 25 percent. "Outside Kathmandu, turnout was...

This was taken from "The World Cant Wait" website (Stalinists and Maoists, all) Scroll down to find your city, Every PW Chapter member should get involved. Arizona: Bisbee: Gore Park, at mouth of Brewery Gulch Phoenix: 4-8pm, 24th St. & Camelback Rd. Tucson: Noon-2: Rally at University of Arizona Alumni Plaza. Afternoon: People (particularly HS students) are encouraged to go to Skrappy’s to pick up material and get out WCW’s message downtown and elsewhere. Late afternoon (4-7): WCW caravan with big banners and signs, driving around Tucson. Evening (7-10): Cultural event at Skrappy’s (201 E. Broadway, downtown) e-mail us at:...

From 1989 till 1995, namely until the Dayton Accord, the Kosovans faithfully followed Rugova's passive resistance. The Dayton Accord, which put an end to the Yugoslavian War, was in fact a real shock to the Kosovans, for there was no word at all in it about the Kosovo issue. Americans, who guaranteed Rugova that Kosovo would be the next issue on their agenda, did not keep their promise. No wonder that the entrance of the Kosovo Liberation Army The Kosovo Liberation Army logo (Ushtria Clirimtare E Kosoves - UCK, under the leadership of Hashim Thaci, coincided the year 1996, when...

In the week after the Maoists refused to extend their ceasefire, the rebels have stepped up their bombing campaign targeting government buildings. The rebels said they would take the war from the villages to the cities and that is what they are doing. But all they are destroying are district education offices. The army’s offensive into Rukum two weeks ago now appears to have been a deliberate attempt to provoke the rebels not to extend the ceasefire. Indeed, as soon as the announcement on the ceasfire was made on 2 January the rangers returned to base. Meanwhile, King Gyanendra is...

HYDERABAD, India, Dec 25, (Reuters) - Maoist guerrillas attacked an Indian passenger train carrying more than $100,000 in railway money and killed at least four policeman on Sunday, police said. Unconfirmed reports say two more policemen might also have died in the attack between the states of Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. Four were injured. About 60 armed rebels raided a train as it reached remote Koneru railway station, 635 kms (395 miles) northeast of Hyderabad, the Andhra Pradesh. They attacked a special coach carrying cash chests containing 5 million rupees ($110,900) for railway workers. There has been a recent spike...

Kathmandu : Nepal's Maoist guerrillas took advantage of the ceasefire called by them in September to buy arms from India, the official media here reported Friday. The Rising Nepal daily, the mouthpiece of the government headed by King Gyanendra, said the information was given to the Royal Nepalese Army by an ex-Maoist "combatant". The informer, the daily said, was a 13-year-old girl from Ilam district in eastern Nepal. Ishwara Neupane aka Richa, who reportedly surrendered to security forces and was presented at a press conference at the district administration office in Jhapa, also in eastern Nepal, was quoted as saying...

Nepal, sandwiched between the two rising economic and demographic behemoths of the age—China and India—could be the first country since the fall of the Berlin Wall where communists emerge triumphant. If the Bush administration does not act decisively, that's what might happen. The administration should not take solace in the flurry of negotiations between the Maoist insurgents (who control most of the hinterlands) and the country's political parties in Kathmandu, which could undermine the last vestige of legitimate royal authority while further strengthening the insurgents. By canceling Special Forces training missions to the besieged Royal Nepalese Army, and with the...

While the New York Times has proven itself to be selective in it's reporting all the details about the war in Iraq, it seems to have no problem running attack ads on President Bush in regards to the same. As Bill O'Reilly reported on FOX News tonight, World Can't Wait's "next phase of the battle to drive out the Bush regime by placing a full page ad in the NY Times" ran on page A17 in the Times today The ad along with coordinated fliers make radical claims including the following: "Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is...

NEW DELHI, July 8: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers as they are commonly known, are providing military training to the Maoist rebels of Nepal in Bihar near the Nepalese borders. Some French trainers have also been hired, a Maoist rebel leader revealed to the South Asia Tribune.

JALPAIGURI (Indo-Nepal-Bhutan-Bangladesh Border), July 24: Over 165 Maoist cadres are being trained in Bhutan at present, as Bhutan has been included in the future Maoist country, ‘Dandkaranya Desam’. The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) and Kamtapur Liberation Organization (KLO) are imparting the training. A senior leader of the Standing Committee of a Maoist outfit confirmed this to the South Asia Tribune.

Nepal's Maoist rebels entered a pact with opposition politicians yesterday in a move to isolate King Gyanendra, who seized full power nine months ago. Under the deal the communists, who control most rural areas, would lay down their arms under United Nations supervision while a new constitution is drafted. They say they will become a democratic party if the king is removed. More than 12,500 people have died in their near 10-year campaign to turn the Himalayan monarchy into a communist republic. The announcement came in statements from the Maoists and seven opposition parties, following recent talks in New Delhi....

KATHMANDU: Nepal's Maoist rebels, spearheading a decade-old insurgency, have agreed to lay down arms under UN supervision and support the movement launched by an alliance of seven political parties to limit King Gyanendra's role as a titular head, highly placed sources said on Saturday. During the "secret" parleys with the alliance leaders in New Delhi, the rebels also indicated that they would extend the ceasefire period by a month, they said. The rebels had announced a three-month unilateral truce in September, which expires on December 3. Though there was no official confirmation of the talks either by the royal government...

PATNA, India, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Maoist rebels stormed a jail in eastern India, killing at least two people and freeing more than 300 prisoners, including many fellow guerrillas, police said on Monday. Police said the rebels entered Jehanabad town in impoverished and lawless Bihar state late on Sunday night in small groups, cut off power in areas around the jail and attacked the prison. They killed one jail guard and a member of a private landlord army. The rebels also abducted at least two dozen members of a private army of upper caste landlords who were jail...