Kathmandu, 10 Aug: Another group has defected from Maoists embarrassing the former rebels now in government by attacking a police outpost in the neighbouring district of Nuwakot Thursday.Deserters led by district member Raj Kumar Regmi ‘Sandesh’ and Bam Bahadur Tamang formed a new group called ‘Rebel Maoist’, attacked a police post at Phukiri VDC-4 and decamped with weapons and bullets.Twenty-three rebels seized one pistol, two 303 rifles and 114 rounds of bullets.
A group member telephoned government news agency RSS and claimed they rebelled to ‘oppose the Maoist treachery against the blood of martyrs’.Maoists deceived a group of eight policemen manning the outpost telling them a person had been murdered in neighbouring Bhelchi VDC; deserters overpowered remaining three policemen and seized weapons and bullets after deceiving five security policemen who rushed to the neighbouring village to investigate a murder that never took place.
The strength of the new rebel force wasn’t known as yet.Leaders of the rebel group had recently been expelled from CPN (Moaist) who denied involvement in the attack on the police outpost—a serious violation of the peace agreement.The attack was timed with the 5th plenum held after nine years and the first after Maoist joined the peace process in April 2006 to determine peacetime party strategy.The plenum was also aimed to unite restless workers during the peace process after abandoning the 10-year people’s war that claimed more than 13,000 lives on both sides of the conflict.CPN (Maoist) decided to continue in government and pursue a three-S strategy to push twin demands for the immediate declaration of a republic before the 22 November assembly election that most probably won’t be held because of inadequate security.
The second demand is to conduct proposed election on proportional representation basis—a demand opponents said was aimed to bypass election.The three –S strategy is to push the Maoist demands from sarker [government], sadsan [parliament] and sadak [street]. Nearly two weeks earlier, Laxman Chaudhary ‘Roshan’, a leader of the Tharus in mid-West, also defected and formed the CPN (United Rebel Front) along with 3,000 combatants; the group says it’s active in Gorkha and Kailali districts.
Roshan said 3,000 combatants in 28 cantonments and camps under UN supervision are ready to join his group with weapons.The rebellion that erupted in the Madesh in mid-January is also fueled by the Jwala Singh and the Goit groups of the JTMM—both groups also defected from the CPN (Maoist).Chairman of the Madesh Janatantrik Morcha (MJM) Upendra Yadav defected from CPN (Maoist) and formed the Morcha.Meanwhile, the delayed verification of 31,000 Maoist combatants at two camps in Ilam and Sindhuli will begin next week Tuesday or Wednesday, according to UN and Maoist sources. Nearly 3,000 of the registered combatants have already defected—some defectors charged the leadership for ignoring their welfare.The charged the party hadn’t received a Rs 3,000 government monthly dole set aside for the fighters through the CPN (Maoist) charging the party of financial irregularities.
A group member telephoned government news agency RSS and claimed they rebelled to ‘oppose the Maoist treachery against the blood of martyrs’.Maoists deceived a group of eight policemen manning the outpost telling them a person had been murdered in neighbouring Bhelchi VDC; deserters overpowered remaining three policemen and seized weapons and bullets after deceiving five security policemen who rushed to the neighbouring village to investigate a murder that never took place.
The strength of the new rebel force wasn’t known as yet.Leaders of the rebel group had recently been expelled from CPN (Moaist) who denied involvement in the attack on the police outpost—a serious violation of the peace agreement.The attack was timed with the 5th plenum held after nine years and the first after Maoist joined the peace process in April 2006 to determine peacetime party strategy.The plenum was also aimed to unite restless workers during the peace process after abandoning the 10-year people’s war that claimed more than 13,000 lives on both sides of the conflict.CPN (Maoist) decided to continue in government and pursue a three-S strategy to push twin demands for the immediate declaration of a republic before the 22 November assembly election that most probably won’t be held because of inadequate security.
The second demand is to conduct proposed election on proportional representation basis—a demand opponents said was aimed to bypass election.The three –S strategy is to push the Maoist demands from sarker [government], sadsan [parliament] and sadak [street]. Nearly two weeks earlier, Laxman Chaudhary ‘Roshan’, a leader of the Tharus in mid-West, also defected and formed the CPN (United Rebel Front) along with 3,000 combatants; the group says it’s active in Gorkha and Kailali districts.
Roshan said 3,000 combatants in 28 cantonments and camps under UN supervision are ready to join his group with weapons.The rebellion that erupted in the Madesh in mid-January is also fueled by the Jwala Singh and the Goit groups of the JTMM—both groups also defected from the CPN (Maoist).Chairman of the Madesh Janatantrik Morcha (MJM) Upendra Yadav defected from CPN (Maoist) and formed the Morcha.Meanwhile, the delayed verification of 31,000 Maoist combatants at two camps in Ilam and Sindhuli will begin next week Tuesday or Wednesday, according to UN and Maoist sources. Nearly 3,000 of the registered combatants have already defected—some defectors charged the leadership for ignoring their welfare.The charged the party hadn’t received a Rs 3,000 government monthly dole set aside for the fighters through the CPN (Maoist) charging the party of financial irregularities.
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