KATHMANDU, NOV 06 - The number of youths fleeing home in the Maoist-affected hill district of Salyan in mid-western region is on the rise, mainly because of continued Maoist violence and unemployment. Most of the people in their early twenties and forties are migrating to India’s Uttranchal where their acquaintances work as seasonal labourers.
The number of such people leaving for India has further increased after the Maoists launched a one-person-from-one-home campaign to sustain their guerrilla warfare. An employee at Shrinagar Bus Station said most of the people came from the northern parts of the district, which is worst affected by the eight years old rebellion.
Meanwhile, a report from Bhojpur said that Maoist rebels abducted four youths of remote Pancha Village Development Committee for attempting to join the army about two weeks ago. The Bhojpur district committee of the CPN-UML said that whereabouts of the kidnapped youths is still unknown.
In yet another incident, a group of rebels set fire on the administrative building of Primary Teachers Training Centre in Bhojpur’s district headquarters during curfew hours last night. Chief of the teachers’ training centre Durga Prasad Shrestha said property worth Rs 5 million was destroyed on the fire. The centre was established four years ago to train primary-level teachers from Sankhuwa Sabha, Khotang, Bhojpur and Solukhumbu districts in the eastern region.
Another report from Manthali, the district headquarters of Ramechhap, said that the rebel Maoists collected forced donation from the locals of Dhobi bazaar. Under-secretary of CPN-UML Ramechhap district committee Tula Prasad Kandel said the rebels collected Rs 1,000 from each of the businessmen cordoning-off the bazaar. The rebels also destroyed alcohol in the market.
Meanwhile, RSS adds four girls abducted by an armed band of Maoists from Amthang, Kalyanpur VDC-2 are in Maoists’ custody since the last five days. Those abducted from Amthang last Friday are Chima Tamang, Sharmila Tamang, Seljung Tamang and Indira Tamang. The abducted girls are of 15 to 18 years old. Amthang is located about four kilometres towards northwest of the district headquarters.
According to family sources, the girls had gone to the forest near the village to fetch grass for the cattle when they were abducted.Posted on: 2003-11-05 09:23

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