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Integration Of Maoist Combatants With Nepal Army
By KTM Metro Reporter
July 8, 2012: talking to his party cadres at his official residence in Baluwatar yesterday, Prime Minister and coordinator of Army Integration Special Committee Dr. Baburam Bhattarai said that the former Maoist combatants’ integration process would move ahead in a honorable manner, as the government was serious to integrate the former combatants into the Nepal Army in a dignified manner, according to ‘The Rising Nepal’ of July 8, 2012. Prime Minister Dr. Bhattarai urged the party cadres not to have any doubts about dignity in the integration of the PLA combatants into the Nepal Army and called for having patient.
Maoist combatants of the third division in Shaktikhor yesterday stopped their protests started off on Friday, July 6, 2012 against the age, education and physical fitness standard set by the Nepal Army. They said that the standard set by the Nepal Army would make many combatants not eligible for integration into the army. "We were compelled to launch the protest as the integration process was becoming like a new recruitment process. We felt insulted after the officials started measuring our combatants’ height and academic qualifications as compulsory," ‘The Rising Nepal’ quotes Commander Dhakal as saying.
The recruitment and selection process of the former Maoist combatants was obstructed on Friday, July 6, 2012, due to the age dispute of the combatants; the Nepal Army halted the process after the combatants protested against the physical check carried out on them. Confirming the deferral of the process, spokesperson for Nepal Army Ramindra Chhetri said, "The process has been halted for now. It will resume soon." The combatants said that they objected to the recruitment process, as it was not going following the integration process agreed by the political parties. According to our Chitwan correspondent Shanta Adhikari, battalion co-commander of Dineshrmaji Memorial Brigade Dhalak Bahadur Moktan said that they warned of launching a protest against the recruitment process adopted by the Nepal Army rather than the integration process, according to ‘The Rising Nepal’ of July 7, 2012.
