The Maoists and its United Revolutionary People´s Council and the People´s Liberation Army (PLA) are still part of the US State Department’s Terrorist Exclusion List (TEL).
“Although the Maoist party ended a ten-year insurgency in 2006 and entered into the interim government in April 2007, factions of the Maoists continued to engage in violence, extortion, and abductions,” the report said.
“The Maoist-affiliated Young Communist League, which included former members of the People’s Liberation Army and grew increasingly prominent during 2007, carried on the Maoist militia´s tactics of abuse, abduction, murder, intimidation, and extortion in cities and villages,” it said.
The State Department lauded the Nepali government´s in counterterrorism efforts, specifically with the passage of anti-money laundering legislation and the arrest of individuals suspected of terrorist ties. However, it said that US antiterrorism assistance was constrained by the presence of the Maoists within the government.
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