Nepal: Militants’ deaths prompt Madhesis’ call for strike
Nationalists aggrieved by constitutional settlement attacked communist rally
MADHESI nationalists resumed their blockade of southern Nepal yesterday after three of the militants were shot dead by police when they attacked a Communist Party rally.
The United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) called a general strike across the country’s southern plains region, closing markets, schools and transport.
Their supporters blockaded main roads and towns in an echo of the 2015-16 border sit-in that caused acute food, fuel and medicine shortages in the wake of the devastating May 2015 earthquake.
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