A second front
Ethnic violence threatens Nepal's new-found peace
THE peace process in Nepal passed important landmarks this month as former Maoist rebels joined an interim parliament and started putting their guns into storage. Yet even as a final settlement to that insurgency remains distant, the country is faced with another cause of violence: ethnic strife in its southern plains next to India, a region known as the Terai.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “A second front”
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