BIRATNAGAR, NOV 28 - The Mechi-Koshi Regional Bureau of the CPN (Maoist) said that it would strictly abide by its party chairman Prachanda’s public commitment of not killing people opposed to their ideology and sabotaging physical infrastructures.
Issuing a press statement here today, comrade Ananta, in-charge of the Mechi-Koshi Regional Bureau, said that they would strictly obey what Prachanda expressed his commitment through public statments and inter-party circulars.
Contrary to what Ananta said, another Maoist leader Basu Shakya, Chief of People’s Government in Sankhuwasabha, while addressing an open mass meeting in Jante VDC in Morang, had said that Prachanda’s statement called for protecting the physical infrastructures only in the Maoist-controlled areas.
Making public the decisions of his central committee meeting on October 3, Prachanda had vowed to stop attacking in vacated VDC offices and police stations, telephone towers and other infrastructures. He had also expressed that any action against the "enemies of people" and "informers", if need be, would be carried out through "democratic legal means", not by the party’s military wing.
Despite Prachanda’s announcement, his cadres have destroyed many physical infrastructures and killed innocents on charges of being surakis to the government forces. However, the Regional Bureau’s latest statement has been taken positively, which, observers say, would help prevent its rank and file from carrying out destructive acts.
The press statement also admitted having lost more than 100 Maoists since the breakdown of cease-fire in August in eastern region. It also claimed to have killed 23 security personnel and wounded 26 others during the same period.Posted on: 2003-11-27 10:12

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