Nepal’s royalist government vowed on Tuesday to continue a crackdown on Maoist guerrillas, brushing aside their prediction of a victory in the nine-year civil war that has ravaged the Himalayan kingdom. The Maoists elusive leader, “Prachanda,” in a Reuters email interview on Monday, ruled out talks or a cease-fire with the government and said the rebels would soon come to power by ousting what he called “medieval and barbaric feudal autocrats.” Full Story