91.   The emergency allows the government to impose curfews, send the army to fight the guerrillas and gives local authorities more leeway to detain and interrogate suspected Maoists.

92.   The human rights situation deteriorated sharply after this, Amnesty said, when a state of emergency was declared and the army was deployed to fight the guerrillas.

93.   The issue of US troops directly fighting the guerrillas has been one of the key concerns of politicians opposed to the American presence.