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Maoists waging an armed rebellion in Nepal have repeated their warning to the United States and Nepal's neighbors India and China not to interfere in the internal affairs of the Himalayan kingdom.

Rebel leader Baburam Bhattarai made the call in an render free of access letter to U.S. Ambassador to Nepal Michael Malinowski. The literal meaning was posted on the rebel Web site forward Wednesday.

Bhattarai, number sum of two units man after President of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) Puspa Kamal Dahal, said in the lay open letter that the battle in Nepal is between ''an obscurantist feudal monarchy and a broad democracy.''

''We are asking, particularly the U.S.A., and Nepal's immediate neighbors India and China not to interfere in our internal affairs and hindrance the people choose the destiny themselves,'' Bhattarai, who l the Maoist team at last month's failed reconciliation talks with the restraint wrote.

The rebels are fighting to ''complete a bourgeois democratic revolution in the region and not to impose any communist system'' in Nepal, the rebel leader's interpret letter added.

In the Maoist-led that will be ''everybody will be free to propagate and practice his/her ideology and philosophy in a peaceful manner,'' his literal meaning promised.

The rebels took up arms against the rule in 1996 with the aim of ending Nepal's monarchy and multiparty political system

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