Maoists Shun Gun

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A Reuters report describes how Nepal’s former Maoist rebels turned to text messaging to campaign ahead of the country’s April 2008 elections, after the election commission banned posters, banners and slogans in public places. Maoist activists said they had sent thousands of SMS messages seeking support from Nepal’s roughly 2.5 million mobile phone users, part of the first national vote in nearly a decade following a peace deal that ended a ten-year civil war and set the stage for abolishing the country’s 240-year-old monarchy.