Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist–Maoist), was a minor communist party in
Nepal. The party was as founded in 1981 by
Krishna Das Shrestha. Initially it was known as the
Nepal Marxist-Leninist Party. Shrestha had broken away from the
Bagmati District Committee (which functioned semiautnomously) of the
Communist Party of Nepal in 1969.Rawal, Bhim Bahadur.
Nepalma samyabadi andolan: udbhab ra vikas. Kathmandu: Pairavi Prakashan. Chart nr. 1.
Krishna Das Shrestha was the party president.
During the
1990 popular uprising against the monarchy, the group formed part of the radical
United National People's Movement.
In
1991 the party was one of the organizations that founded the
Samyukta Jana Morcha,Upreti, B.C..
The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal: Nature, Growth and Impact. In South Asian Survey 13:1 (2006), page 37
CPN(MLM) took part in the Joint People's Agitation Committee, which had called for a
general strike on April 6, 1992. Violence erupted in the capital during the strike, and according to the
human rights NGO HURON 14 people were killed in police firing.Hoftun, Martin, William Raeper and John Whelpton. People, politics and ideology: Democracy and Social Change in...
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