March 27 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal's political parties accused activists from the youth movement of the former rebel Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) of disrupting their rallies and terrorizing voters two weeks before the nation's election.

Members of the Young Communist League banned other parties from campaigning in an area of Surkhet district in the west, Nepalnews.com reported. League members patrol the area every night warning local people of ``dire consequences'' if they don't vote for the CPN (Maoist), it said.

In central Dolakha district, League members yesterday attacked people campaigning for the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), according to Nepalnews.com. A dozen people including a candidate were injured in the clashes.

The rebels ended their 10-year insurgency under a November 2006 peace agreement, joining the interim government preparing elections in the Himalayan kingdom. They brought 30,000 fighters into camps and surrendered weapons under United Nations supervision as part of the accord.

Puspa Kamal Dahal, the Maoist leader, said countries are working to ensure his party doesn't win the election, Nepalnews.com reported.

Certain countries are ``active against the Maoists,'' Dahal, also known as Prachanda, told a rally in the eastern Morang district yesterday. He criticized the Unified Marxist-Leninist party for failing to form an alliance with the Maoists, saying the party was pressured by the U.S. and India not to do so.

`Foreign Money'

Nepal's journalists are also receiving ``foreign money'' to write stories hostile to the Maoists, he said.

``What are these journalists writing?'' Nepalnews.com cited Prachanda as saying. ``Writing news against Maoists by pocketing foreigners' money? Who gave such a right to these journalists?''

The media isn't giving enough coverage to the killings of ``a dozen Maoist cadres'' while highlighting ``even petty interventions'' by the YCL, he said. Many journalists at the event walked out during his speech, Nepalnews.com reported.

More than 13,000 people were killed in the civil war, which damaged the tourism-dependent economy. Nepal, located between India and China, is one of the world's poorest countries, where about 40 percent of the population lives below the poverty line.

The U.S., which lists the Maoist party as a terrorist organization, questions its commitment to the peace process.

To contact the reporter on this story: Michael Heath in Sydney at mheath1@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: March 26, 2008 23:18 EDT