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Disqualified Former Maoist Combatants’ Movement Stir
By KTM Metro Reporter
March 9, 2012: the quick recruitment of additional PLA members has obviously backfired on the UCPN-Maoist and its current government, as more than 4,000 PLA members recruited after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement with the government in 2006 and disqualified in 2009 by the UNMIN based on their ages as Verified Minors and Late Recruits (VMLR) have been blocking highways for drawing the government’s attention to their demand for equal compensation as the other PLA members opting for voluntary retirement have received. They also have demanded to remove the label of ‘disqualified’ on them.
According to the news posted on the irinnews.org, the UN Inter-agency Rehabilitation Program (UNIRP) has been supporting the rehabilitation of the disqualified PLA members providing them with vocational skills training, micro-enterprise development, health-related training and education, and formal or non-formal education since mid 2010 but obviously they are not satisfied what they have received so small in comparison to what the combatants opting for voluntary retirement have received. So, they have intensified their movement for meeting their demands recently.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95045/NEPAL-Disqualified-Maoist-ex-combatants-threaten-to-step-up-protests
