National Strike Ordered by Maoists Brings Nepal to Virtual Halt

A power move violently between the administration of Nepal Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and the Maoists, who have the most lawmaking seats, is to see the local people and foreign tourists were wedged in the middle. Since May, it has most of the country to set a Maoist-initiated strike aimed at forcing the collapse of the annual administration.

In the center of an junction in Kathmandu, villagers from the remote northwestern hilly Karnali zone - one of the poorest in Nepal - sing and dance in a circle around a traffic jam checkpoint.
While the police are sitting around, see thousands of Maoist group and spectators milling the roads empty of cars, Karnali villagers sing a Maoist-inspired ditty called on the prime minister to resign.