People of Rolpa district have started fleeing from their villages due the fear of violence with the end of the four-month long unilateral ceasefire of the Maoists, a newspaper report on Wednesday said.

Most of the youths and school children of various villages of Rolpa have been moving out due to fear of the war with the end of ceasefire.

The Rajdhani daily quoted Harka Bahadur Pun of Jhenam village in Rolpa, who returned to the village from India three months back during the period of unilateral ceasefire as saying, “With the end of unilateral ceasefire, people are moving away from the villages as they fear that violence would return.”

“The conditions is different now, the army has entered the village and even the Maoists are preparing for war and the environment to live in the village no longer exists,” he added.

Shobha Ram Budha, a grade nine student of Mahendra Secondary School in Jhenam village has dropped out of his school after the ceasefire was called off and is preparing to leave the village, the paper adds.

He said that he is leaving the village due to the fear that Maoists will compel him to participate in their programs and the security forces will also treat him as a suspect.

To escape from all this, he had to leave his village and move to Ghorahi, the district headquarters of Dang district. He also said that some of his friends who had come with him have already left for India.

Likewise, people from Rangkot VDC-1 have also started moving out of their villages after the ceasefire ended.

They say that they have been leaving their villages fearing that the Maoists would abduct them.

They also informed that most of the men and youths from their village have already left the village. They said that they would be leaving for the capital to find a secure environment and for better work.