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Nepal Maoists extend ceasefire

A three-month Maoist ceasefire, due to end on Thursday, will continue as the fledgling peace process in Nepal is making headway, the rebel spokesman said.

DNA Web Team

Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST

KATHMANDU: A three-month Maoist ceasefire, due to end on Thursday, will continue as the fledgling peace process in Nepal is making headway, the rebel spokesman said.

"The peace process is progressing so the ceasefire will be extended," said Krishna Bahadur Mahara, Maoist spokesman and member of the rebel peace talks team.

The new government and rebels have been observing a ceasefire since late April, when King Gyanendra was forced to end his 14-month period of direct control of the nation and reinstate parliament.

"We have already expressed our commitment that we will not return to war (so) there is no possibility of breaking the ceasefire," Mahara said.

A United Nations team was due to arrive in Nepal later on Thursday to assess how the world body could assist in arms management and election supervision.

The rebels and new government have agreed to a key Maoist demand to hold elections to a body that will rewrite Nepal's constitution.

Political parties sidelined by the king's takeover in February 2005 and rebel Maoists entered a loose anti-Gyanendra alliance in November last year.

Three weeks of often violent protests organized by political parties in concert with rebel Maoists last April forced the king to cede power.

The current peace effort is the third time in a decade that the government and Maoists have tried to hammer out a deal. Their efforts failed in 2001 and 2003 plunging the impoverished country back into conflict.

Since the rebels unleashed a "people's war" in 1996 at least 12,500 people have been killed.

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