“The facts revealed in the videotape have raised serious questions about the future of the peace process, the actual number of PLA combatants, the management of the cantonments and the money spent in those places. Therefore, we are going to raise these issues with UNMIN”, NC Constituent Assembly member Nabindra Raj Joshi told myrepublica.com. “We will ask what the UN body´s reading is of the situation that has emerged after the videotape became public.”
He said that depriving even PLA combatants of the money and misusing it for buying arms and ammunition was a serious matter.
Verification of the registered Maoist army personnel was conducted by UNMIN arms monitors. With a team of 59 arms monitors from 19 countries UNMIN is based round-the-clock at the seven Maoist army cantonment sites where the weapons are stored.
The NC leaders at a gathering on Monday claimed that Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal´s move to sack the army chief was intended to invite chaos and instability in the country. “It was an unconstitutional, immoral and ill-intended move,” Joshi said.
They also came up with the conclusion that the facts revealed by videotape further prove that the prime minister was planning a coup and the Unified CPN (Maoist) party is involved in buying weapons and in war propaganda.
“Even the Maoist-led government was involved in a plan to capture the entire state organs,” Joshi said.
The videotape revealed that Prime Minister Dahal, while addressing PLA combatants, said the real strength of the PLA was between 7,000 and 8,000 and not 35,000 as stated to UNMIN.
Meanwhile, members of the NC youth wing Nepal Tarun Dal Monday submitted a memorandum to Kathryn Jones, chief of political affairs at UNMIN. They demanded re-verification of the Maoist combatants.
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