Monday, August 13, 2007

MAOIST DEFECTION

Maoist YCL Sunday captured but didn’t hand over Raj Kumar Regmi ‘Sandesh’ to district authorities in Nuwakot after he defected with a group of more than 20 supporters three days earlier forming a rebel group ‘Janabadi Yuba Samuha’.Maoists handed over only two of three 303 rifles and one pistol defectors snatched from police after overrunning a police outpost Thursday; Maoists didn’t return a third seized pistol as they couldn’t nab all defectors.The latest rebellion was short-lived because it didn’t last more than three days.

The group of four fresh rebels was nabbed at Bhanche.

Defector leader Regmi attended the opening of the 5th plenum at Balaju Wednesday before defecting in disgust rushing back to his district Wednesday.‘We’ve started not only a political but also a military rebellion by attacking the police outpost."Issues raised during the people’s war weren’t implemented until now. I raised this matter inside the party without a hearing. Plans were being hatched to demote me in the party. I then started plans to rebel."Most party workers in the district are running after position and money," Regmi told a reporter before he was nabbed by Maoists.CPN (Maoist) has been plagued by defections as rebels formed or joined armed rebel groups in the south from where they have been displaced by new militant groups—some calling for the independence of the region from Kathmandu.

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