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Court issues show cause notice against Dahal, Bhattarai over use of child combatants:

Report in The Kathmandu Post, June 14, 2023The Supreme Court has issued a show cause notice against Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and former prime minister Baburam Bhattarai over the use of children in the 1996-2006 Maoist insurgency. A single bench of Justice Sapana Pradhan Malla asked Dahal and Bhattarai, the then supreme commander of the Maoist combatants and the chief of “people’s government,” respectively, to furnish in writing whether they recruited child soldiers. “The…