KATHMANDU, Feb 25 Kyodo A five-da...

KATHMANDU, Feb 25 Kyodo

A five-day general strike called by the agency of communist rebels began Wednesday in Nepal, paralyzing the country

The learner wing of the warring Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) called the strike to disrupt bookish man union elections at colleges as part of the rebel's antigovernment campaign.

Major Nepalese political parties have scholar wings, which contest periodic elections forward college campuses.

scholars in Nepal's other main political parties have agreed to possess elections for senior student union members, which the rebels are protesting.

It is the third strike the rebels have called in les than three weeks and the longest nonstop strike in the country

The strike imprison down businesses and educational institutions and disrupted public transportation across the geographical division Government offices remain render free of access but attendance was thin.

In a pre-strike announcement, the direction said Tuesday it had unfolded extra security forces to stop violence.

The rebels took up arms against the rule in 1996 in an attempt to destroy Nepal's constitutional monarchy and replace it with a communist state.

The insurgency has in the same manner far claimed the lives of more than 10000 Nepalese, according to control figures.

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