Six years on, his whereabouts is yet to be known despite his party leading the government twice in the intervening period.[break]
His family members have met the rank and file of the Maoist leadership with requests to help them find about Lokendra. "We had great hopes that the party he worked for would search for him, but the Maoists didn´t even put his name on the list of disappeared persons despite leading the government," Lokendra´s mother Kaushilya said while struggling to hold back tears. Kaushilya said Lokendra was their eldest son and the family had high hopes from him until he joined the Maoists. “He hadn´t even completed his education, and now he has been missing since past three years,” she said.
She pleads before every human rights activists and media persons who reach the village and still hopes that her missing son would be eventually found.
Lokendra is not the only person missing from Dadeldhura district and, like him, others who have been missing have not been included in the list of disappeared. One Sushila from Alital-4 has also been missing for the past six years after joining the Maoist rebels. Around a dozen persons have been disappeared by the state and the rebels during the rebellion, but the missing list made by the former rebels mentions just seven names.
"We made the list based on the applications filed by the families of the missing. I don´t know why those persons are not in the list," said Maoist in-charge of Dadeldhura, Bharat Dhanuk. District Administration Office, Dadeldhura said families of many like Lokendra make rounds of the office seeking information about their missing family members.
Similarly, the family of police constable Hari Singh Bohara of Sirsha-4, who was killed by the Maoists on July 31, 2004, has yet to receive compensation. Hari Singh´s widow Sanja said that she has visited Kathmandu around eight times and met the authorities in the hopes of getting compensation but was sent back empty handed on one pretext or other.
"He was abducted from Sirsha when he came for espionage," claimed Maoist In-charge Dhanuk. "I am told that he was killed later, but I don´t know whether his family got compensated or not. We have recommended the government to pay his family Rs 100,000 in compensation."
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