Maoists continue atrocities; abduct two

January 14, 2007
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Though they have selected names for joining the interim legislatures to join the parliamentary politics, Maoists are continuing excesses in various parts of the country.

Maoists beat up and abducted two persons in Kapilvastu district on Saturday morning.

According to newspaper reports, a group of 15 Maoists led by Maoist area number 6 members Bishal and Sushila abducted Devendra Mishra and his son Manish.

“They asked for food. When we refused, they took away my husband and son after beating them up,” Said Devendra’s wife Rukmati.

The Maoists also barred rights activists and journalists from meeting them and said locals must follow their orders.

Reports quoted Maoist area secretary Shreman as saying that they were arrested for investigation.

Meanwhile, a report from Sankhuwasabha said that Maoists padlocked the house of Sher Bahadur Poudel, a teacher at local Phalidang Primary School of Deurali village development committee of Bhojpur district, recently.

Poudel also said that Maoists had threatened to kill him after he refused to give them an amount equal to his 12 day’s salary.

In Khotang, Maoists are yet to vacate the building of the Animal Husbandry Office and the Agricultural Service Centre at Chisapani, which they seized about six months ago, reports Kantipur daily.

Similarly, two reinstated police posts in Bardiya were displaced after Maoists attacked them Friday night.

They attacked the police post at Khairi Chandanpur in Rajapur across Karnali River at Friday night, district police office (Bardiya) said.

“Some 50 Maoists with domestic weapons like spears and sticks attacked seven policemen at the police post”, reports quoted Superintendent of Police Shyam Bahadur Khadka as saying.

Meanwhile, the Maoists attacked another reinstated police post at Baniyabhara in Bardiya Friday night. Policemen at Baniyabhara police posts ran away after some four hundred Maoists, saying that they don’t need police, threatened to set fire to the police post and threw away the goods there.