Riot police officers confronted hundreds of women from Nepal’s Communist Party protesting Thursday in front of the president’s house in the capital, Katmandu. The women were demanding that the president, Ram Baran Yadav, fire the country’s army chief.
The police used bamboo batons on some of the women who had broken through a cordon, injuring several of them. Nepal’s Communist prime minister, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, caused a national crisis on Monday when he resigned and pulled his party from the ruling coalition in protest over the army chief’s failure to integrate former Communist rebels into the military.
by the associated press
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