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7 lis 2012 · In a departure from the previous period of the conflict where police forces were used, the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) was mobilized to combat the Maoist insurgency. The army quickly earned a reputation for “indiscriminate killings, arbitrary arrests,” torture, and disappearances (Eck 2010: 38).
16 sie 2006 · This article examines the role of the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) in the current Maoist insurgency in Nepal. The RNA has largely escaped public gaze until recently when it has come to play an increasingly important part in the Nepalese national life.
Nepal's Maoists have attempted to emulate the classic Chinese communist structure of "three magic weapons": party, army and united front. The policy of the immediate predecessor to the CPN(M), the CPN (Unity Centre), explicitly endorsed the threefold revolutionary organisation.
In 2005, the erstwhile Royal Nepalese Army had put the PLA's strength at 4,000 armed guerrillas, 5000 militia with guerrilla training and 20,000 armed militia. The Maoist. 1 claimed the number to be 10,000 armed guerrillas. A widely believed figure in Nepal is 9,500 guerrillas and 25,000 militia.
look upon the Army to stem the rapidly expanding Maoist organization and influence across the country while the Maoists themselves want their People's Liberation Army assimilated into the national military.
Royal Nepal Army (RNA) now calls itself the Nepal Army, and the peace agreement requires its democratisation under the authority of the new government that includes the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) [CPN(M)]. As of the date of writing this has not yet occurred and the Nepal Army is still commanded by those, primarily of the quite literally ...
Since 2001, the entire Nepalese polity has been affected by the Maoist insurgency either directly or indirectly. In June of 2001, the already fragile state witnessed the Royal Family Massacre, which brought in an unpopular monarch, King Gyanendra.6 Concomitantly, the political parties struggled to coordinate their response to the increas-
