Kham Participation in Nepalese Civil War
Despite adversity Kham Magars retained a robust oral history and a sense of past greatness which created grievances and made them receptive to the Maobadi (Maoist) movement that opposed the Shah regime in the 1996-2006 Nepalese Civil War and even the multiparty democracy that the Shahs toyed with. Rolpa and Rukum districts in the center of the Kham homelands became known as the Maoist heartland and Kham Magars were prominent as footsoldiers of its guerrilla forces.
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