As in some other parts of Nepal, Maoist violence and misdirected counter-violence are taking on a frightening life of their own.
In important steps towards cementing peace in Nepal , Maoist rebels took seats in an interim parliament, and promised to dissolve their parallel government.
The end of Nepal's Maoist insurgency in 2006 allowed army guard posts back into Chitwan National Park, where most of the rhinos live.
In Nepal the party representing former Maoist insurgents withdrew from the coalition interim government, throwing the peace process into jeopardy and potentially scuttling assembly elections due in November.
Late last month, the US State Department issued a travel advisory warning US citizens in Nepal to be cautious as Maoist groups in the country had vowed to take "hard action" nationwide from 1-8 September.
India is now famous for economic wonders in the face of political gridlock, but it still has hundreds of millions of desperately poor, many living along a northern tier where they can be touched by the Maoist insurgency against Nepal's decrepit monarchy.
In Nepal, the proposed integration of Maoist forces and the army has never happened.
Recently returned from long tours in central Nepal, which is ablaze with a Maoist insurgency, the men had a right to feel aggrieved.
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That India is also fighting a home-grown Maoist insurgency has heightened its ambivalence towards Nepal's new government.
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The plan to integrate several thousand of these former Maoist combatants into the 96, 000-strong Nepal army now looks unlikely.
Not surprisingly, the Maoist broke with tradition by swearing to be faithful to Nepal in the name of the people, rather than of God.
Nepal's Maoists have formed links with India's own Maoist insurgents, who go by the local name of Naxalites, and, says India, with some of the vicious groups fighting secessionist wars in its north-east.
In Nepal, the CHD established the first links between the government and the Maoist insurgents in 2000.
Also this week, Maoist guerrillas in India, who have some contacts with insurgents in Nepal, stormed a prison in the state of Bihar, freed nearly 400 inmates, and killed at least seven.
India will focus on aiding the democratic transition in Nepal, for example, but it will tread a fine line between preserving its influence there and pushing the new Maoist-dominated government into China's arms.
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