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Regrouping Of Combatants Of PLA For Voluntary Retirement Unlikely
By KTM Metro Reporter
April 9, 2012: the Army Integration Special Committee (AISC) teams reaching the various cantonments have faced certain problems of regrouping the PLA combatants into the group of combatants opting for voluntary retirement and the group remaining for joining the Nepal Army, ‘HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE’ reports on April 8, 2012.
The AISC teams have faced the problem of getting cooperation of the combatants at some cantonments, the commanders are preparing for going to Kathmandu for attending meetings at other cantonments, and combatants at other cantonments chanted slogans against the prime minister and the leadership of the UCPN-Maoist. So, the AISC teams think that they would have problems of achieving the target on regrouping the combatants by April 12, 2012.
Speaking to the reporters in Itahari, General Secretary of UCPN-Maoist Ram Bahadur Thapa yesterday said that even after the integration of PLAs, peace would not prevail, as the existing old security policy could neither provide the country with security and nor the people, so, new national security policy should be implemented for a lasting peace in the country, ‘HIMALAYAN NEWS SERVICE’ on April 8, 2012.
General Secretary Thapa also is not happy with the manner Maoist fighters are to be integrated into the Nepali Army, as only 3,000 fighters would be integrated into the Nepali Army in future even though political parties agreed on integrating 6,500 fighters, the number of fighters to be integrated will reduce to 500 fighters following the criteria set by the Nepal Army; this is the ploy of political leaders to destroy the PLA.
General Secretary Thapa has said that the UCPN-Maoist has practically split into two, and asked the party cadres to be prepared for another people’s war, as the country needs it.
