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KATHMANDU, NEPAL, Feberuary 24, 2004: Over 10,000 people have lost their lives during the course of insurgency in the last eight years, the Home Ministry has said. Speaking at the daily regular press briefing on Friday evening, spokesperson of the Home Ministry Gopendra Bahadur Pandey informed that 1,122 policemen, 372 Royal Nepal Army soldiers and 172 Armed Police Force personnel were killed in this period. The biggest casualty has been on the Maoist side, though. Over 6,600 Maoist militants were killed in offensives. He further disclosed that 1,175 civilians have been killed in the last eight years. This year alone, 1,674 people lost their lives. Among them, 259 were civilians, 130 policemen, 129 army soldiers and 56 APF forces whereas 1,100 Maoist guerrillas were killed in security operations.

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