Panauti attacked.

Last night the MaoBadBoyz probed the defences of the Valley for the third time - this time from the East. After the Thankot Massacre last month (West of Kathmandu, on the way down to India) and big clashes at the end of January with aerial bombardment of Makwanpur villages (South), now came coordinated assault on Panauti with diversionary faints at Dulikhel (district HQ) and Banepa - only 25 km E of the centre! Details are still ariving.
I know the area well, actualy this is the part of the country I feel most about, just like a home: Indu hails from a small village 2 HR uphill from Panauti, she still has some land there though her Father and Mother passed away in the past 18 months. I went up there gladly many times since 1984, and in the village I savoured the simple Nepali life: spicy greasy chicken, jhar (beer-like concoction) and dnces by villages in the moonlight. Power and water came only in the last 5 years. With the great gompa of Namo Bouddha presiding over the plain we went swimming down to Roshi Khola and watched a tribe of monkeys doing their antics on opposite shore - too steep even for goats to graze, so it was left to monkeys. This was where I first saw bombed out school in the village and abandoned, burnt-out Police posts. 40 km from Civilization! It seemed more absurd then anything Kafka wrote...
Info sofar from NepalNews:

Security forces and Maoists clashed in Panauti in Kavre from Monday evening. The rebels targeted RNA base camp at Gorakhnath hilltop. The Maoists also attacked the Panauti Municipality office. Though the Maoists have reportedly taken into their control some security personnel deployed in the municipality office, there was no official confirmation. Locals said the Maoists, after attacking Panauti, headed towards Dhunkharka in three buses at 11:00 p.m.