Incidents in Achham, Far-Western, Nepal

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Event ID Date Country Event
32069-58453-136217 1/19/2008 Nepal In another incident, on January 16, Maoists abducted two other CPN-UML cadres, Ram Bahadur Kadayat and Jagdish Lohar, of Sodsa VDC in the Achham district for allegedly assaulting up a CPN-Maoist cadre.
27453-48465-110924 12/30/2006 Nepal Five police personnel were injured when a group of Maoists attacked unarmed police personnel at a recently re-established Area Police Office (APO) of Rajahar in the Nawalparasi district on December 29-afternoon, Nepal News reports.
22490-38337-86815 10/20/2005 Nepal Separately, security forces arrested three Maoists, identified as Lochan Rawal alias Lokesh, Govind BK and Ashok Bhandari, who were involved in extortion and abduction activities in the Kalagaon area of Achham district on October 18.
21521-36393-82408 7/20/2005 Nepal According to a statement issued by the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA), security forces killed an unidentified Maoist insurgent in a clash at Naughate Lek in the Achham district on July 19.
19862-33453-76118 2/15/2005 Nepal In another incident, SF personnel killed a woman insurgent, Amrita Aulaji, at Jayagadh in the Achham district and another insurgent at Barkauli in Baitadi district on February 12. Further, two insurgents were shot dead during SF operations launched in the Sankhuwasabha and Dolakha districts.
19606-33064-75256 1/26/2005 Nepal The Himalayan Times reports that over half-a-dozen government offices, including the buildings of the District Development Committee (DDC) office and the District Education Office, were damaged and two Maoist insurgents were killed when a group of Maoists attacked the army barracks at Mangalsen, the district headquarters of Achham on January 25.

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The original source are newspaper clippings and extracts collected by the South Asian Terrorism Portal.