Disqualified Combatants to Be Rehabilitated
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
The government is going to rehabilitate the Maoist combatants disqualified by the UNMIN starting on Friday, July 17, 2009 according to the state-run newspaper ‘Gorkhapatra’ of July 17, 2009. The government is honorably taking out 4,008 Maoist combatants from the cantonments, and returns them to a regular life. The government will start this process from the Hathikhor cantonment in Nawalparasi district.
The government will keep them in a temporary shelter for 45 days and then give them an opportunity of having an useful training as chosen by them following the rehabilitation program and then returns them to a regular life. This process will be completed by November 2, 2009.