A Maoist revolution has been raging in Nepal since 1996. In 1999, Li Onesto became the first foreign journalist to travel deep into the guerrilla zones. Allowed unprecedented access, she interviewed political leaders, guerrilla fighters, villagers in areas under Maoist control, and relatives of those killed by government forces. Millions in Nepal now live in areas under guerrilla control. Peasants are running grass-roots institutions, exercising what they call 'people's power'. Li Onesto describes these transformations -- the establishment of new governing committees and courts, the confiscation and re-division of land, new cultural and social practices, and the emergence of a new outlook. Increasingly, the UK and US have directly intervened to provide political and military support to the counter-insurgency efforts of the Nepalese regime. Onesto analyzes this in the context of the broader international situation and the 'war on terrorism'.
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Dispatches From the People's War in Nepal
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Meeting the People's Army
- 2 Villages of Resistance
- 3 The Raid on Bethan
- 4 Rifles and a Vision
- 5 Revolutionary Work in the City
- 6 General Strike in Kathmandu
- Carrying the Story Forward: The Problem of Disinformation
- 7 Land in the Middle
- 8 Hope of the Hopeless in Gorkha
- 9 Preparing the Ground in the West
- 10 Learning Warfare by Waging Warfare in the West
- 11 People's Power in Rolpa
- 12 Guns, Drums, and Keyboards
- 13 Teachers in a School of War
- 14 Martyrs of Rolpa
- 15 Families of Martyrs: Turning Grief into Strength
- 16 Women Warriors
- 17 New Women, New People's Power
- 18 Magar Liberation
- 19 Preparing for War in Rukum
- 20 Starting and Sustaining People's War in Rukum
- 21 Camping with the People's Army
- 22 Red Salute in the West
- Afterword
- Notes
- References
- Index
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