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Nepal votes in historic election
Nepalese people queued from dawn on Thursday to cast their vote in the country's first election in nine years.
- Agencies
- Published: 08:29 April 10, 2008
- Image Credit: Reuters
- The vote in Nepal on Thursday is the centrepiece of a 2006 peace deal with Maoist guerrillas to end a decade-long civil war.
Kathmandu: Nepalese people queued from dawn on Thursday to cast their vote in the country's first election in nine years.
Poll opened at 7am to choose a 601-member assembly that will write a new constitution, abolish the 240-year-old monarchy and serve as parliament for at least two years.
The vote is the centrepiece of a 2006 peace deal with Maoist guerrillas to end a decade-long civil war.
At least 135,000 armed police, some in helicopters, have been deployed in and around Nepal to try to secure the election.
Armed groups have called for a boycott of the polls as the United Nations monitors said Maoist have intimidated voters and campaigning in some areas.
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