By Nepal News Correspondent
Kathmandu, Feb 25:
The underground Nepal Communist Party ( Maoist) that has been launching an armed insurgency has put forward conditions to start talks with the government to end the Maoist insurgency.
General secretary of Maoist Communist Party Com Prachanda ( Puspa Kamal Dahal) issued a press statement today and said that if the government was serious to initiate talks with the Maoists, it first has to meet the conditions put forward by the guerillas.
The conditions put forward by Maoists are:
All Maoist leaders and workers who are in jail should be immediately released.
Names and position of those who disappeared from the police custody and killed should be made public
” State terrorism” should be immediately stopped.
Investigation into the recent killing and arson in Rukum should be initiated and strict action against the culprit taken.
Compensation should be given to the victims of police action
The general secretary of Maoist Party has demanded that the government fulfil these demands to start the talks.
In the statement the chief of the Maoist party has asked the government to create a conducive and internationally acceptable atmosphere to begin the talks.
Otherwise, the government would be responsible for any kind of future consequences, he warned.
The reaction of the Maoist leader came in response to the recent statement of Nepali Congress leader Sher Bahadur Deuba calling the Maoists to come to negotiating table for the resolution of more than four year old insurgency.