May 13, 2005

Nepal Cracks Down on Pro-Democracy Student Groups

By SHAILAJA NEELAKANTAN

Activists press on despite campus arrests, strikes, and 2 deaths

Gagan Kumar Thapa, a graduate student at Nepal's Tribhuvan University, chats and laughs with a friend as he waits to discuss the government crackdown that has him on the run.

Clad in sweat pants and a T-shirt, the chubby, soft-spoken sociology student does not seem like a rabble-rouser or a revolutionary in the style of Nepal's Maoist rebels, whose violent, nine-year insurgency is aimed at replacing the monarchy

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