The communists in Nepal says in Wednesday they are going to step up protests and block a new government from forming unless the president supports the firing of the country's army chief in a dispute over integrating former rebels into the military.
President Ram Baran Yadav refused on Sunday to honor a directive by communist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal to fire the country's military chief because of his refusal to enlist former communist fighters into the military. Dahal resigned in protest Monday, throwing the Himalayan country into a huge crisis.
Police used tear gas and batons made of bamboo to break up a protest by about 500 supporters of Dahal's Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) in Katmandu on Wednesdsay. Unfortunately, no one was seriously injured in the clash.
The authorities have imposed a ban on protests and rallies in main areas of Katmandu this week.
Followers of Mao have been holding protests since Dahal, the ex-prime minister of Nepal, resigned Monday and the party's lawmakers shut down parliament Tuesday by gathering in the front of the assembly hall and chanting slogans.
By: Eugene Jiveke
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