DHANGADHI, Oct 23: Maoist cadres looted paddy produced on 11 bighas of land belonging to four farmers in Chuha and Hasuliya VDCs of Kailali district on Wednesday night and Thursday afternoon.
The farmers said that some Maoist People"s Liberation Army (PLA) combatants, who are supposed to remain inside UN-monitored cantonments, were among those involved in looting the paddy.
The Maoists stated that the paddy was distributed to freed kamaiya (bonded laborers), landless squatters and flood-hit people.
About 200 Maoists loaded the paddy onto tractor trailers and took it away from fields belonging to Shankarman Bohara, Khem Raj Pandey, Prem Dhungana and Khadak Bir Chaudhary.
The Maoists had locked up the farmers inside their own houses while loading the paddy onto the tractors. ´A large group of cadres arrived at our place chanting Maoist slogans.
Their faces were masked. When I tried to talk to them they punched me in the face and locked me inside a room. Some of them were instructing other cadres to set fire to the house,´ Bohara said.
He said the group used a vehicle from the PLA camp to transport the paddy.
The Maoist district in-charge in Kailali confirmed the indicent. ´The land was under Maoist control for the last eight years. We harvested the paddy from land that was under our party"s control,´ he said, adding, ´We don"t know if anyone had bought the land even after learning that it was under our control.´
He said that they distributed the paddy to freed kamaiya, landless squatters and flood-hit people.
According to Chief District Officer Hari Krishna Poudel, police are preparing to file a case against seven persons involved in looting the paddy from the farmers" land at Chuha.
´Jivan´, Acting Commander of the PLA Seventh Division, said no PLA combatant was involved in the incident.
He claimed that the allegation against PLA men was a conspiracy to defame the PLA hatched by those who want the peace process to fail.
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Loot paddy on one side and loot 10 lacs from the people´s money!!!
what a chaos in this country!!! is this humanity that a nepali is alive to see!!!
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Rahul
"Commander of the PLA Seventh Division, said no PLA combatant was involved in the incident" .. yet another pathetic weasel. these maoists are just a bunch of parasites on society.
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pasdasd
I wish such Maoists always have to live a life that way. Have no brain or capacity to anything in their life, so they have to loot.
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nabin
its' a bad news for the Nepalese people.Maoist are now in the peace process and they have also rule in Nepal before this government.but why they are doing such a works of revolution time?.what they want to give the message?.
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