Girija Prasad Koirala, the former Nepalese prime minister who brokered the peace deal that ended a bloody ten-year civil war, died yesterday aged 85, an aide said.
Koirala, who had been suffering from respiratory disease for many years, died at his daughter’s home in Kathmandu, Gokarna Poudel said.
“The former prime minister died at 12.10 this afternoon. His relatives were with him,” she added.
The veteran leader staked his political career on making peace with the Maoist rebels who waged a decade-long insurgency against the state.
The peace deal signed in 2006 ended a conflict that had killed at least 16,000 people, with thousands more still unaccounted for.
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