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![]() Protest over Nepal's failure to protect job offices from rioters
KATHMANDU (AFP) - Some 1,000 protestors staged a demonstration in Kathmandu to protest government failure to protect employment agencies from irate mobs during recent rioting, witnesses said.
Among the protestors were hundreds of employment agency owners whose businesses were destroyed in September 1 riots sparked by the killings of 12 Nepalese by an Islamic militant group in Iraq (news - web sites), they said on Sunday.
Mobs vandalized and torched around 300 employment offices -- which recruit workers for the Middle East and Gulf states -- as well as airline offices serving Middle Eastern destinations, and a Kathmandu mosque.
Protestors Sunday demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, who leads the four-party coalition government, for his inability to prevent the vandalisation.
The government clamped a five-day curfew after mobs went on the rampage, destroying property worth millions of rupees (thousands of dollars).
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