Tarun Dal memo to UNMIN on Maoist assault

KATHMANDU, Oct 29: Nepal Tarun Dal (NTD), the youth wing of the Nepali Congress Party, has drawn the attention of the government and the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) to the Maoist attack on Nepali Congress leaders including former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and the vandalizing of the NTD function at Narayanghat, Chitwan on Tuesday.

It has urged the UN´s political mission to take up the recent killing of NTD Taplejung member Chandra Prakash Ramahangram by the Maoists and the bid on the life of another member, Sunder Man Thing, in Lalitpur.

In a memorandum addressed to UNMIN chief Karin Landgren on Thursday, NTD has alleged that many of the fighters involved in these activities were from cantonments monitored by UNMIN.



“… we demand that all these Maoist political cadres be immediately removed from the cantonments and the camps closed down,” NTD said in the memorandum signed by its vice president, Udaya Shumsher Rana.

NTD has also accused UNMIN of turning a blind eye to the activities of the Maoists that are against the spirit of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

NTD has sent a copy of the memorandum to Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, urging the government to take the issue seriously.