Bodies of three UN monitors identified

Kathmandu, 11 March: Bodies of three UN armed monitors killed in al crash helicopter crash this month has been identified, UNMIN said.
Bodies of Lt Col Hyung Jin Park of South Korea,
Major Famara Jammeh of The Gambia and Lt Col Sondag Irawan from Indonesia have been identified; the remains of Col Hyung were repatriated home Monday.
A Swedish monitor was also killed.
Seven UNMIN officials, including three Nepalese, were killed in the chopper crash whish is being investigated.
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Commando training for YCL to capture booths

By Bhola B Rana

Kathmandu, 11 March: Maoists have issued a 11-point internal circular to workers to capture of booths to push elections in their favour, Dhristi reports.
The newspaper printed that it said was a copy of the circular.
A Maoist nocturnal secret meeting 25 February issued the circular after political party candidates filed nominations for the 10 April elections.
The circular ordered the armed presence alerting other political parties.
According to sources, YCL are being given commando training at one camp in Chitwan.
Maoists have started going to their districts from the capital after the circular, the newspaper reported.
Meanwhile, splintered communists have failed to forge electoral alliance to win a majority in assembly elections as Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala called for a victory of ‘democrats’ in the poll.
‘CPN-UML first said there couldn’t be electoral adjustment between communists at the center. As a result, principle of one communist candidate for one constituency couldn’t be enforced,” Maoist leader Dinanath Sharma said.
Some analysts said this stiffens chances of a communists getting a majority in elections.
RPP-Nepal, that has opted for constitutional monarchy, is making public its election manifesto Tuesday; Congress is going public with its political programme Thursday’ CPN-UML and Maoists have already announced their manifestoes.
Congress and CPN-UML have rejected a Maoist proposal for a French-style strong presidential system of republican for Nepal; CPN-UML and Congress are pushing a parliamentary system akin to India’s.


Supreme court orders police to push murder charge against Maoist leader

Kathmandu, 10 March: In the first order of its kind, the Supreme Court Monday ordered the District Police Office and District Administration Office in Kavre to file a murder case against Maoist central leader Agni Sapkota and five Maoist cadres, The Kathmandu Post reports.
Justice Ram Prasad Shrestha and Damodar Prasad Sharma passed the order following a hearing at the Supreme Court on the writ petition filed by one Purni Maya Lama.
Lama has accused Sapkota and Maoist cadres Yadav Piudel, Bhola Aryal, Karnakhar Gautam, Surya Man Donga and Norbu Moktan of murdering her husband Arjun Bahadur Lama in April 2005 when the CPN-M was fighting government forces.
Lama moved the Supreme Court after the police and administration office in Kavre refused to register her application seeking action against the Maoists under the Murder section of the Country Code.
The authorities had maintained that the issue would fall under the jurisdiction of the to-be-formed Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

[Note: UN and Foreign governments that abuses cannot be punished selectively and gross violations can’t be pardoned unilaterally by government.]
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