Nepali Rebels Reported Still Recruiting
Young men and women sit around learning how to shoot and clean guns at a muddy camp set up by communist rebels on the edge of this Himalayan village. Those are basic soldiering skills that the young people presumably would know if they were longtime insurgents, as their rebel commanders claim. Government officials, diplomats and aid workers say that despite a peace deal signed by the Maoist rebels last month to end Nepal’s decade-old conflict, the guerrillas are still recruiting _ and sometimes pressing _ villagers into service. Full Story