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Ethnic people demand federal charter

Ethnic people demand federal charter

May 26, 2012 | 12:00 AM
 
Activists from the Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN) chat slogan outside the Constituent Assembly building, calling for the formation of federal states in the new constitution along ethnic lines, during sit on protest in Kathmandu yesterday. Protest groups have been making various claims for their rights ahead of a May 27 deadline for parliament to complete its new constitution following the end of a bloody 10-year Maoist insurgency in 2006
May 26, 2012 | 12:00 AM