Nepal Army Killed Three Innocent Women In Bardiya
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
April 8, 2010: making a report on investigating the Army killing in Bardiya public, the Sub-Committee On Investigation Into Killing Of Three Women in Bardiya formed by the Legislative Committee On Women, Children And Social Welfare in its reports has stated on April 7, 2010 that the three women the Nepal Army has killed in Bardiya National Park on March 10 were not poachers, but they were simply collecting tree barks in the park for their livelihood.
The report also states that the Nepal Army personnel and the park authorities have covered up the facts and tampered with evidence placing three guns and bags unbelievably unnaturally at the killing site. The three dead bodies have the gunshots wound indicating the Nepal Army personnel had fired them from behind on the contrary to their claims for confronting them.
The Madhav government has decided to provide the family members of the victims with Rs 25,000 per victim; however, the family members have not received anything so far according to the state-run newspaper ‘Gorkhapatra’ of April 8, 2010.