The youth wing of the former rebel Maoist faction accuses police of inaction and a rival group of killing its leader (Reuters/Al Jazeera).
Chan Tan Chou, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Kathmandu, said: "People are very frustrated but they’re also very intimidated because these people are traveling in mobs swinging batons and creating a lot of noise.
"Protests like this, and of course there are smaller scale ones as well, have been going on every other day to keep up the pressure on the new government," he said.
Murder accusations
Police have said they do not yet know how Phuyal died or who is responsible. But the former Maoist rebels have blamed the youth members of another rival party for the death and demanded that those involved be arrested. The former Maoist rebels ended their decade-long armed struggle against Nepal's monarchy toppling the king three years ago and entered a peace process.
They won general elections in 2008 and Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the top rebel leader, became prime minister. Last month, Dahal tried to fire the head of the country's army, in part for not integrating the former guerrillas into the armed forces. When the president overruled his order, Dahal resigned as prime minister. Source
