The cover story of latest Himal Khabarpatrika featured Sita Tamang's testimonials on being a child soldier during the insurgency.
Former Maoist child soldier, Sita Tamang, who gave testimony at the United Nations Security Council in New York last month, has been threatened by Maoists at her home in Chitwan.
Tamang, now 18, was introduced as ‘Manju Gurung’ by the UN Special Rapporteur on Children in Armed Conflict, Radhika Coomaraswami, on 18 June. Sita recounted her life story and how she was forced into the Maoist movement at age 12. Following this, five combatants from the UN-supervised Shaktikhor Cantonment went to Sita’s home while she was out grazing goats.
“A car stopped at our house and five people came out of a car looking for my daughter,” said terrified Dhan Maya Tamang. “They said she might have to face consequences in the future.”
“The Maoists said to me that I should not have criticised them, and that something bad could happen to me in the future,” Sita said.
Sita first told her story to Himal Khabarpatrika three months ago, as part of a series on what has become of former Maoist combatants. The UN then took her to New York as a case study of how ex-child soldiers can be successfully rehabilitated.
Sita told the magazine: “The Maoists made me feel miserable, disillusioned and devastated.” Human rights organisations and journalists in Chitwan say they are worried about Sita’s safety and the local police has posted a sentry at her house.
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what do idiots and opportunists – but outside who portrait themselves as friend of poor- who are supporting maoist, those who have pity for maoist say about this?
you low life could be being cursed by their tears.
GESTAPO Tactics.
Gestapo used to hound their opponents in Hitlerite days in Germany in this way.
Such Gestapo tactics must stop.The leaders of the party should be made responsible for such type of intimidation done by its cadres.Without the silent order of the chief nothing moves in the party. Human Right Bennet and co. take note of such actions seriously and take up with the chief.
This is an attempt to slander the Maoists. The Maoists would NEVER do such a thing.
They are a kind, gentle, political party that have never harmed so much as a hair of anyone.
The Maoists are a peace loving political party. Prachanda is second only to Buddha in the peace stakes.
As the NT has written before, the Maoists are the only party representing change.
It is just a tip of the iceberg of the atrocities committed by the Maoist. Sita was brave enough to tell the truth about the coercision tactics of the Maoist. Might is right is still the norm in usurping power and authority. UN and Himalpatrica should now come to the rescue of Sita in preventing the Cadres of Maoist from doing her any harm.
#Jange
Yes. C.Prachanda has surpassed the Buddha and Jesus. Why not deify him. It will not be acceptable to some religious communities to declare him a Prophet. Mohammad was the last Prophet and Guru Govinda was the last Guru. So let us make him an Ayotolla.It will be acceptable to all religion.
Supreme or Maximum Leader the Grand Ayotolla Comrade Prachanda will be the correct title for him.
Yes, anyone who knows anything about the realities of Nepal knows this is vile, baseless slander of our selfless national saviours; the Maoists are SAINTS who believe in complete freedom of speech and always show respect for the vulnerable and poor (as shown in this example). The gentle cadres who kindly paid a social visit to enquire after her welfare were only concerned for her apparent mental confusion and faulty memory regarding her happy times in their benevolent organisation.
All else is imperialist-feudalist propaganda blah blah
As cats always hides their filthy shits, same does the Maoist to hide their ugly deeds!
What else innocent Nepalese expect from the cruel and cunning Maoist? It is the time to wake up and fight against the Maoist atrocity in Nepal, 15000 lost their lives, because of their violent ways to fight against ones own country!
Sharmila ji, what about the rest of the Nepalis? Do we get UN and Himalpatrica protection too?
Maoists think they have intellecuals and some claim themselves as intellect but what they forget is they basically in the rural areas stop children going school citing useless education or non-patriotic education. The children of the top leaders go to modern schools and universities, but their cadres are still forcing innocent and poor villagers / children to work for the party. Don’t they have right to go schools? It is obvious that Maoists killed many political party activists in the rural Nepal claiming the agent of feudal state. They killed journalists, human right activists, social workers, etc during the so-called people’s war (massacre movement !). We don’t understand why political parties gave up their standing in spite of their majority (more than 60% votes is against Maoist).
Please don’t let them rule the nation.Who cann’t respect children don’t have the right to rule our nation. They are culprits who threaten the lives of any citizen. They are killer. Everybody has to be brought to the justice irrespecive of the color of politics. Without universally accepted rule of law, nobody has the right to rule Nepalese people.
Please respect law and improve the behavior instead of stepping in to fake words’ war against reality.
What a shame!!!
This is just one of the reported scene in the international media. There are hunderds of young kids from my village who were forced to join the militia. Parents were helpless and left to watch in despair while their beloved little ones were dragged in the war.
How naive of Prachanda/Maoist that they talk about child protection and rights only NOW.
From Helmand
Gurkhali !!
Other isssues aside, who gave the UN the authority to change Sita’s name from a Tamang to a Gurung? Is UN involved in a caste based politics? And so much for our media to hype on those names. Shame to you all. Could they not have found any other pseudonym? UN and the media may have taken their minutes of fame but who will now be responsible for the potential risk of life for Sita and her family?
This is the first of many stories that will come out. Anyone who thinks they can win a nation by using force, inhuman tactics and weapons is dillusional just like PKD and the rest of his crew. They need to accept their wrongs.
It is time to accept the mistakes of the past, put down their weapons and act like a democratic party. Or alternatively to face the inevitable, anhilation.