MVA to burn Maoist leaders’ effigies 

January 28, 2004
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Maoist-Victims Association (MVA) said Tuesday it will burn the effigies of Maoist leaders Prachanda and Baburam Bhattarai on 13 February, for issuing threats to dissolve MVA, a daily said Wednesday.

“We decided to burn the effigies of Maoists’ leader as a voice against the threat from them to dissolve our organization,” Annapurna Post quoted MVA President Ganesh Chilwal, as saying.

According to Chilwal, the Maoists have sent a letter to them asking not to run programs against the Maoists. Moreover, they Maoists have also been charging the MVA of amassing donations from different embassies to conduct programs against Maoists.

Chilwal, however, rejected such allegations. He said, “We will operate our programs in a more influential way in the future.”

“We have been celebrating 13 February as a black day in Nepal’s history. It’s the day when the Maoists begun bloodshed in the country,” he said in justification to the MVA’s effigies burning plan.