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Nepal’s Revolutionary Pratfall

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Jul 24, 2008
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Nepal’s communists, who swept to power in April at the ballot box after a bloody, decade-long campaign to dethrone the country’s Hindu monarchy, are learning that governing isn’t as easy as revolution.

On Tuesday, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, better known by his nom de guerre Prachanda, the head of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist, announced that his party did…

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