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  • Investigating the Jana Adalat of the 1996–2006 armed conflict in Nepal

  • Yugichha Sangroula
  • Journal:
    International Review of the Red Cross / Volume 102 / Issue 914 / August 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 November 2021, pp. 789-806

  • The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M), an organized armed group, engaged in a non-international armed conflict against the Government of Nepal between 1996 and 2006. During the armed conflict, the organized armed group operated a judicial system in the territories under its effective control, called the Jana Adalat (the People's Court). The legitimacy of the Jana Adalat has been a contentious subject matter. This article examines the historical, legal and practical dimensions of the Jana Adalat, especially focusing on the perspectives of the CPN-M.

  • 4 - Nepal’s Maoists Take to the Streets

  • Ches Thurber, Northern Illinois University
  • Book:
    Between Mao and Gandhi
    Published online:
    17 September 2021
    Print publication:
    30 September 2021, pp 81-105

  • Summary

    In 1996, the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist launched an insurgency that lasted 10 years and killed an estimated 16,000 people. But the case of Nepal's Maoists is particularly fascinating for the way in which the conflict ended: with their decision to put down their arms and join with other political parties in a campaign civil resistance. Drawing on original field research, this chapter will make the argument that the Maoist change in strategy was the result of changes in their social ties that came about as a result of territorial gain through war and coalition with other political parties. These changes caused the Maoists to reassess the relative viability of armed and unarmed strategies of rebellion.