Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Teresita Schaffer, director of the CSIS South Asia Program, was quoted by the Associated Press, "US Works to Determine How to Deal with Maoists in Nepal."
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Teresita Schaffer, director of the CSIS South Asia Program, was quoted by the Associated Press, "US Works to Determine How to Deal with Maoists in Nepal."
This month's surprising election victory for ex-rebels in Nepal could force the Bush administration to deal with a group it has considered a terrorist organization.
''The U.S. government was taken by surprise, and they're basically trying to figure things out,'' Teresita Schaffer, a former State Department South Asia specialist and U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka, said of the Maoists' election win.
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