ARMY RECOMMENDS PROMOTION OF COL. RAJU BASNET ACCUSED BY UN OF RIGHTS VIOLATIONS Kathmandu 17 July: Recommendation from Nepal Army (NA) has gone one week ago to the defence ministry for the promotion of Col.Raju Basnet to brigadier general, Kantipur reports. Col. Basnet was accused of rights abuses during the people’s war by UN bodies—charges termed motivated by Army Spokesman Ramindra Chetri. (Note: UN sent Col Basnet back home from a peace mission in Africa.) nnnn