Nepal Maoists sack army chief

2009/05/03 06:35:46 @Reuters: International News

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's ruling Maoists fired the army chief on Sunday, accusing him of disobeying instructions not to hire new recruits, a move that could destabilize the coalition government and jeopardize a peace deal that ended a civil war. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=IV8CJkiiqCM:pBNc2jbDNmU:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=IV8CJkiiqCM:pBNc2jbDNmU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=IV8CJkiiqCM:pBNc2jbDNmU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=IV8CJkiiqCM:pBNc2jbDNmU:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=IV8CJkiiqCM:pBNc2jbDNmU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/IV8CJkiiqCM" height="1" width="1"/
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