Fake squatters return home from Kailali
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DADELDHURA, DEC 08 - Hundreds of non-squatter people who had descended to Kailali a few days ago, with the hope of getting land in the name of squatters have returned home.
They had descended to Kailali after the Maoist-affiliated All Nepal Squatters’ Association started capturing a forest in Dudejhari, promising land for the squatters. Even though they had their own houses and land, they were lured by the hope of getting a piece of high-priced land in the Tarai district.
After the government evicted the encroachers from the forest on Sunday, the non-squatters from Dadelshura who had descended to Kailali returned home on Sunday and Monday.
They said Maoist cadres had reached their villages in the last week of November and asked them to descend to Kailali where they would get 10 katthas of land in the forest they were supposed to capture. They said Maoists had told them that they would get the land once the forest is captured and once they involve themselves in the party’s work there.
Over 200 such fake squatters from Amargadhi Municipality and inner Tarai area of the district have returned home after the government poured cold waters to their greed by foiling the Maoist plan.
Though most of the people who were taken to Kailali by the Maoists were from the Dalit community, they were not squatters as such. It has been revealed that most of them had their land in the district.
Tara Tamrakar of Amargadhi said she went to Kailali after the Maoists came to her house to ask her to go to Kailali to capture the land.
“Only now we have realized that we were given fake assurances. Thanks god, I returned alive,” she said, adding that over 100 families had gone to Kailali in her lot.
Another non-squatter, who refused to identify himself, said, “It’s not that we don’t have land here. But when they [Maoists] promised that we could get land in the Tarai, we trusted them and followed them without a second thought.”
When asked why the Maoists took non-squatters to Kailali to capture the forest, Maoists’ Seti-Mahakali in-charge Dharmendra Bastola denied the charge.
Talking to RSS over the phone, he said, “It’s not that way. They are squatters and they had gone their voluntarily. It is only the rumor spread by the government. The government thinks that it has solved the problem by sending them back to home. But it is only an illusion of the government.”
Posted on: 2009-12-08 02:53
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