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Maoists Keeping Disqualified PLA Members
By KTM Metro Reporter
November 03, 2010: The UCPN-Maoist has been keeping its combatants disqualified by the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) under the care of the party and its youth wing: Young Communist League (YCL), ‘The Kathmandu Post’ writes.
In Kailali, 372 disqualified combatants released from the seventh division camp of the Maoists People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have been living in a military-like structure build by themselves. Others have been living at a rented building at Chatakpur in Dhangadi. Similarly, some others have been living in the base camps set up at Attariya, Tikapur and Lamki of the Dhangadi District. “We are keeping the disqualified comrades under our supervision,” PLA Spokesperson Chandradev Khanal said. Around 4,000 PLA soldiers had left cantonments after the UNMIN disqualified them nine months ago, ‘The Kathmandu Post’ writes.
‘The Kathmandu Post’ reporter writes quoting a Maoist source that the party has been keeping the disqualified combatants as a third force if the party cannot bring them under the umbrella of the YCL due to the legal constraint. Former PLA Platoon Commander Bharat Rokaya has said that the party has kept the disqualified PLA soldiers in other parts of the country as well.
