Posted on 07/19/2004 8:55:30 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
KATHMANDU, July 19 (Reuters) - Maoist guerrillas have abducted at least 50 students and a dozen teachers from a school on the outskirts of the Nepali capital in a bid to force them into their fold, a police officer said on Monday.
The rebels dragged the children, aged between 13 and 16, and teachers at gunpoint from the school in Chaimale village on Sunday afternoon, police officer Deepak Ranjit said.
The Maoists, who are fighting to overthrow Nepal's constitutional monarchy, have in the past kidnapped school and university students to boost their numbers.
Ranjit said soldiers have been deployed to secure the release of the hostages. Most of the kidnapped students were girls.
Why do I get the feeling that the bad guys were "heavily armed" and the good guys were not. Is that not the fundamental problem with this picture?
If they are Maoists, they are fighting to establish a People's Paradise. They would be fighting against the government if it was a constitutional monarchy, tin-pot dictatorship or representative democracy.
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