40-Point Demands

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{{Events leading to Nepalese Civil War}}

40-Point Demands ({{Langx|ne|४० बुँदे मागपत्र}}) were given to Nepalese Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba by Baburam Bhattarai on 4 February 1996 in Singha Durbar.{{Cite web|last=Rai|first=Om Astha|date=February 2016|title=What was it all for?|url=https://archive.nepalitimes.com/article/nation/revisiting-maoist-demands,2860|url-status=live|access-date=9 September 2021|website=Nepali Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180317212810/http://archive.nepalitimes.com:80/article/nation/revisiting-maoist-demands,2860 |archive-date=17 March 2018 }}{{Cite web|title=An end to the means|url=http://archive.nepalitimes.com/news.php?id=5792|url-status=live|access-date=9 September 2021|website=Nepali Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210902101243/http://archive.nepalitimes.com/news.php?id=5792 |archive-date=2 September 2021 }} Bhattarai said that if the demands were not met by 17 February, he would launch a war against the government.{{Cite book|last=DeVotta|first=Neil|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f6XbCgAAQBAJ|title=An Introduction to South Asian Politics|date=23 October 2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-36973-8|pages=119|language=en}}{{Cite book|last1=Singer|first1=Merrill|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ljJLj-5v5yQC|title=The War Machine and Global Health: A Critical Medical Anthropological Examination of the Human Costs of Armed Conflict and the International Violence Industry|last2=Hodge|first2=G. Derrick|date=2010|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-7591-1190-5|pages=93|language=en}} As their demands were not met, subsequently, they launched the Nepalese Civil War on 13 February.{{Cite book|last=Kolås|first=Åshild|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ukcrDwAAQBAJ|title=Women, Peace and Security in Nepal: From Civil War to Post-Conflict Reconstruction|date=6 July 2017|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-65743-3|pages=35|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Rebels without a cause|url=https://kathmandupost.com/opinion/2019/03/21/rebels-without-a-cause|url-status=live|access-date=9 September 2021|website=The Kathmandu Post|language=English|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125072619/https://kathmandupost.com/opinion/2019/03/21/rebels-without-a-cause |archive-date=25 November 2020 }}