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The radicals in the Maoists
A political agreement signed on 1 November was finally supposed to allow former Maoist combatants in Nepal to move ahead with their lives. Instead, the response has been mostly anger and accusations of duplicity.
Post Bahadur Basnet | Dec 01, 2011
A fatal intersection
Three small shops in northwestern Sri Lanka no longer exist.
Liyanage Amarakeerthi | Jun 01, 2010
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