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Locals defy Maoist orders in Dolkha
- Former CJ’s house turns Maoists’ office
KATHMANDU, DEC 20 - Security forces today arrested a member of Maoist District People’s Government of Morang, Krishana Chaulagain, from Jhutkiya Village Development Committee.
Locals said that Chaulagain was injured on his leg when the security forces opened fire to arrest him. However, the security forces are yet to confirm the arrest.
There was another Maoist cadre, Prakash, accompanying him, but he managed to escape.
Meanwhile, the Bara district administration office once again extended dusk-to-dawn curfew order in the district headquarters, Kalaiya, effective from today for security reasons.
A report from Bardiya said that the Maoists have set up their offices in the captured houses of high-ranking government officials in rural areas. The rebels have set up their district level offices after capturing the houses belonging to former chief justice of the Supreme Court, Dhanendra Bahadur Singh, and high-raking army officials in the Padnaha VDC, which is separated by the Babai River. The rebels have also imposed a ban on selling property of local landlords, who have fled their homes ever since the Maoist insurgency began in the country.
Likewise, a report from Dailkeh has it that a group of Maoist rebels abducted a health worker, Sadananda Acharya, of the Dashera VDC from the Narayan Municipality on Wednesday. Villagers said that the rebels abducted Acharya after he refused to give them a donation of Rs 10,000.
In Dolakha, hundreds of local people took part in government’s mobile service programme despite the Maoists’ ban on movement. A large number of people received passport and citizenship certificates, and health services from the mobile service provided to the people in southern part of the district. Officials said that more than 600 people were provided with citizenship certificates in a single day. Posted on: 2003-12-21 01:57
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