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Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)

1994– · 20th century · Also known as CPN (Maoist Centre), Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), CPN (Maoist)

The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) is a Nepalese party led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal (Prachanda). As the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) it waged an armed insurgency, the People's War, from 1996 to 2006, in which some 17,000 people died. After the peace agreement of 2006 it entered politics, won the most seats in the 2008 Constituent Assembly that abolished the monarchy, and took its present name in 2016.

Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)
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APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre). In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/communist-party-of-nepal-maoist-centre
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The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/communist-party-of-nepal-maoist-centre (Accessed: ).

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