Maoist atrocities unabated, double ‘road tax’ in Sarlahi
Posted by ohnepal on July 30, 2006
When the SPAM mouthpiece Kantipur reports (see following news) against it’s bosses then we must take the matter seriously. Here in Nepal, right under the nose of UN observers two governments (both illegal) exist simulatneously to extort from the people.
We advice you just one thing: Don’t pay a dime either to SPA (in the form of State tax) or to M (in the form of extortions). Let the message be clear that, we do not recognise the authority of both of them!
Maoist atrocities unabated, double ‘road tax’ in Sarlahi
Kantipur Report
BIRATNAGAR, July 31 – Maoists on Sunday abducted a CPN-UML cadre in Morang while they have kept an elderly in their labor camp. The rebels also doubled the “road tax” that they have been illegally collecting from vehicles plying along the East-West highway in Sarlahi, since last week.
The rebels, just two days after they extended ceasefire by another three months on Friday, abducted Jageshwor Mandal, member of UML village committee, from his house at Aamgachhi-9 in Morang, on Sunday afternoon. Denouncing the abduction, CPN-UML Morang, urged the Maoists to release him promptly.
Similarly, Maoists abducted Rajendra Karki, resident of Hoklabari-2 in Morang, from Ghoghapul in Biratnagar, Sunday evening. According to his family, Karki was on his way to Bolbam pilgrimage. “The Maoists didn’t leave him even as we requested them to let him make the pilgrimage and promised to come to them after it,” said one of the villagers who was with him during the time of abduction.
Meanwhile, reports from Itahari saying, Maoists seized Ram Bahadur Tamang of Khanar-7 in Sunsari, and kept him in their “labor detention camp” for the last nine days.
Tamang is made to work in the field of a Maoist cadre Manohar Chaudhary for eight hours a day, as punishment for being involved in a “cultural crime” (illicit affair).
“I have been exploited here,” said Tamang. “I’m ready to undergo any punishment as per the laws if my crime is proved by a court.”
Meanwhile in Sarlahi, Maoists from Sunday doubled the “road tax” which they had imposed for “highway security patrol”.
The rebels had been charging 10 rupees per vehicle a week ago, as looting of vehicles along the highway was continuing the past few weeks. The Maoists also claimed to have begun such highway patrols to provide security to vehicles as security forces failed to do so.
“We have taken the decision after a week’s trial,” said vice-commander of second division of the Maoists, Pramod. “We increased the tax as we have to deploy over 50 militias for the purpose.”
The rebels have also put up a check post in Laxminiya since Sunday while they had already established one at Ranigunj Chowk.
( Source of above news: eKantipur.com )
