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Deuba vows street battle against king

AFP, Kathmandu
Freed from more than a month of detention, Nepal's sacked prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has vowed to take his supporters on to the streets in a bid to force King Gyanendra to reverse his power grab, reports said yesterday.
"It is a fact that the king has ended democracy so there is no alternative to a massive joint movement," Deuba was quoted as saying by the local media in his first comments after being released Friday from house arrest.
Deuba had been in detention since Gyanendra dismissed his multi-party government on February 1 and seized control of Nepal, imposing emergency rule and vowing to tackle an increasingly bloody Maoist revolt that has claimed 11,000 lives since 1996.
"My party will join hands with
other parties for a strong protest," Deuba told reporters. "All-party government is the only way to tackle the present problems."
Deuba, president of the Nepali Congress (Democratic), also demanded the release of other detained political leaders, including former prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala and Nepal Communist Party-United Marxist and Leninist (NCP-UML) general secretary Madhav Kumar Nepal.
Deuba, who was freed along with 17 other detainees amid mounting international pressure on the king to restore civil liberties, was Saturday meeting with senior party colleagues to discuss latest developments, party sources said.
The release of the 18 came after a day after security officials freed eight other party leaders and activists.
On Thursday, Nepal's royal-appointed foreign minister, Ramesh Nath Pandey, said "certain rights of the people ... will be restored sooner rather than later". But he gave no details and set no timeframe.
Nepal has come under increasing pressure from the world community, including international donors, to free political detainees.
Human rights groups say over 400 activists are in detention or under house arrest. But Pandey, said on a visit to India earlier in the week "very few people are in detention."
The army, meanwhile, said Saturday human rights observers were welcome to meet political activists still in detention.
"The door of the Royal Nepalese Army is always open for representatives of the National Human Rights Commission, the International Committee of the Red Cross and various other national and international human rights organisations willing to meet people held under house arrest in some barracks area for security reasons," the army said in a statement.
The World Bank said this week it was freezing the release of more aid to Nepal while it assessed events there, including the protection of human rights.
Nepal relies on international donor aid and loans for more than half its development budget to prop up an economy devastated by the Maoist insurgency.
India has joined Britain in cutting off military aid to the Hindu kingdom. Its ill-equipped army depends heavily on the help to fight the rebels, who are battling to install a communist republic.
The United States has said it is mulling similar action.
Pakistan, meanwhile, has said it is ready to provide arms and counter-insurgency training to help Nepal face down the Maoist revolt.