Disqualified combatants to be evicted soon

DHANGADI, Oct 22 - Minister for Peace and Reconstruction Janardan Sharma on Wednesday informed that disqualified Maoist combatants, who have been residing in the Maoist cantonments across the country, will be evicted from there at the earliest.

The peace minister, who spent last night at the seventh division camp of the ...

Minister Sharma, a former Maoist commander with pseudonym Prabhakar, said that the combatants who did not meet the  criteria set by the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) and disqualified the verification will be released after the division cantonments concerned forward plans for their rehabilitation.UNMIN, which has been supervising the arms and combatants of the former rebel party CPN-Maoist, last year found that only around 19,600"out of over 30,000 registered Maoist soldiers"are eligible.

Around 4,000 combatants, who were disqualified by UNMIN as they were recruited as child soldiers, are still residing at different cantonments.