NC TO DISCUSS CA REINSTATEMENT Kathmandu, 8 Oct. Main opposition NC has convened a meeting of top leaders to discuss reinstatement of constituent assembly (CA) Monday. Vice-chairman Ram Chandra Paudel and senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba fabour reinstatement to which President Sushil Koirala is cool. Seventy-eight former lawmakers have also demanded a reinstatement. Maoists are for conditional CA reinstatement. nnnn CHAIRMAN PRACHANDA VISITING BELGIUM THISWEEK Kathamandu, 8 Oct. : Maoist Chairman Prachanda is going to Belgium Thursday for a rare foreign visit. He’s going to address a meeting of Jana Pragahisheel Manch. Ram Karki who oversees foreign policy issues in the party has left for the European state to make preparations. nnnn CPN MAOIST TO EXPOSE CORRUPT MAOISTS OF RULING PARTY Kathmandu, 8 Oct.: The CPN-Maoist on Sunday said it will expose leaders and cadres of the UCPN (Maoist) who amassed wealth illegally after the party joined mainstream politics in 2006, The Kathmandu Post reports. Party Secretary Netra Bikram Chand Biplav said his party’s youth wing, National People’s Volunteer Bureau, will next week start a campaign to expose the corrupt leaders and cadres. Chand, who heads the youth wing, was addressing a press meeting called here to disseminate information on the bureau’s general convention scheduled through October 10 -12. “Those who amassed wealth by working in Prachanda’s party are not Maoists. Some of them have earned swathes of land covering a hill,” said Chand. “We will make public their names and press the government to punish them.” A district leader of the bureau told the Post that they have been asked to shortlist top district-level personalities and UCPN (Maoist) leaders and cadres who became affluent “all of a sudden.” The bureau further said it will launch a campaign “against political appointees responsible for making state-owned corporations and industries go bankrupt.” According to Chand, the youth wing will expose political and administrative heads responsible for the downfall of Bansbari Shoe and Leather factory, Bhrikuti Paper Factory and Janakpur Cigarette Factory, among others. “And if the government remains a mute spectator, youths have to take action against the state too,” he said, without elaborating. Chand, who has a solid organisational base and grassroots support, is leading the initiative, according to party insiders. He further dismissed media reports on the CPN-Maoist ’s plan to form a military structure. He accused the UCPN (Maoist) leadership of spreading such ‘rumours’ and claimed that the party will openly declare the formation of a People’s Liberation Army if Nepali politics so demands. He admitted that a ‘significant number’ of former PLA combatants who are dissatisfied with the “move of the UCPN (Maoist) to dissolve the PLA” have joined the volunteer’s bureau. Chand added that the ban on Indian vehicles and movies will continue until the government introduces regulatory measures. nnnn GOVT, ATTEMPTING TO STALL CRITICAL UN REPORT ON 10-YEAR PEOPLE’S MAPIST INSURGENCY Kathmandu, 8 Oct.: As the Geneva-based Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ ( OHCHR ) prepares to publish a crucial report on Nepal’s Maoist conflict , the government will on Monday make a last ditch effort to stall the same, sources here said on Sunday. The UN body is likely to publish the “conflict mapping report” on its website later on Monday, Anil Giri writes sin The Kathmandu Post. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha is set to call on European Union envoys here on Monday and request them to halt the publication of the report. Shrestha will cite the peace process that is almost complete and the ongoing process to set up two separate transitional justice commissions as reasons for not publishing the sensitive report, the sources said. The OHCHR report on Nepal’s 10-year Maoist insurgency archives over 20,000 documents related to human rights violations. “It appears that the OHCHR is determined to go ahead with its plan, but we are going to request them to block the report as the country is in a crucial phase,” a source said. Ten days ago, government officials held a meeting with Chief of the OHCHR ’s Asia Pacific, Middle East and North Africa Branch, Hanny Megally, and requested the latter not to publish the report. Prepared by a team of international experts, the 300-page report profiles a number of serious “human rights and international humanitarian law violations” by both the then CPN-Maoist and security forces during the 1996-2006 insurgency. The government has rejected the report outright, questioning its credibility and sources of information. Accusing the OHCHR of “crossing its mandate,” it says no government entity or official was involved in the preparation of the report. However, the OHCHR believes that the publication of the report will help Nepal in its pursuit of truth and justice and in ending impunity. nnnn