Identifier
Created
Classification
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06KATHMANDU2478
2006-09-12 13:03:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Kathmandu
Cable title:
MAOIST MILITIA AND NEPAL POLICE CLASH OVER
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C O N F I D E N T I A L KATHMANDU 002478
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/12/2016
TAGS: PGOV PTER PREF NP
SUBJECT: MAOIST MILITIA AND NEPAL POLICE CLASH OVER
BHUTANESE REFUGEE CAMP SECURITY
Classified By: DCM Nicholas Dean. Reasons 1.4 (b/d).
SPA-Maoist Cooperation
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C O N F I D E N T I A L KATHMANDU 002478
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/12/2016
TAGS: PGOV PTER PREF NP
SUBJECT: MAOIST MILITIA AND NEPAL POLICE CLASH OVER
BHUTANESE REFUGEE CAMP SECURITY
Classified By: DCM Nicholas Dean. Reasons 1.4 (b/d).
SPA-Maoist Cooperation
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1. (C) OHCHR told us on September 12 that the Seven Party
Alliance (SPA) and the Maoists had decided to pursue the idea
of a joint deployment of Nepal Police and Maoist Militia
forces to provide security at the Bhutanese refugee camps in
Jhapa District (southeastern Nepal). OHCHR said this was
decided at a meeting on September 3 between four SPA
representatives, two Maoist representatives, and one
"independent member."
Nepal Police: No Cooperation
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2. (C) Yogendra Katuwal, Superintendent of Police for Jhapa
District told Emboff on September 12 that the Maoists had
approached the Chief District Officer (CDO) and police and
said that the Maoist militia would begin to provide security
for the Bhutanese refugee camps in the district. The CDO and
Police refused to deploy jointly with the Maoist militia to
provide security. The CDO and police planned to meet with
the SPA leaders on September 13 to tell them that the police
would continue to provide security to the camps. Katuwal
said that the Maoists informed the police that if the police
were not willing to join a joint force for the camps, then
the Maoists were ready to provide their own security in the
camps, which they planned to begin immediately.
Comment
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3. (C) Given our existing concerns about Maoist infiltration
of the Bhutanese refugee camps, Maoist efforts to insist on
providing "security" to the camps are not reassuring. It is
particularly concerning that SPA representatives, even at the
local level, are willing to countenance Maoist militia and
the Nepal Police deploying jointly in the camps, and to grant
the Maoist militia the resulting legitimacy. We continue to
push the GON to enforce law and order in the districts and to
push back against all Maoist efforts to establish parallel
government structures. Turning over the enforcement of law
and order to the very group that poses the greatest
existential challenge to the Government of Nepal is exactly
the wrong approach.
MORIARTY
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/12/2016
TAGS: PGOV PTER PREF NP
SUBJECT: MAOIST MILITIA AND NEPAL POLICE CLASH OVER
BHUTANESE REFUGEE CAMP SECURITY
Classified By: DCM Nicholas Dean. Reasons 1.4 (b/d).
SPA-Maoist Cooperation
--------------
1. (C) OHCHR told us on September 12 that the Seven Party
Alliance (SPA) and the Maoists had decided to pursue the idea
of a joint deployment of Nepal Police and Maoist Militia
forces to provide security at the Bhutanese refugee camps in
Jhapa District (southeastern Nepal). OHCHR said this was
decided at a meeting on September 3 between four SPA
representatives, two Maoist representatives, and one
"independent member."
Nepal Police: No Cooperation
--------------
2. (C) Yogendra Katuwal, Superintendent of Police for Jhapa
District told Emboff on September 12 that the Maoists had
approached the Chief District Officer (CDO) and police and
said that the Maoist militia would begin to provide security
for the Bhutanese refugee camps in the district. The CDO and
Police refused to deploy jointly with the Maoist militia to
provide security. The CDO and police planned to meet with
the SPA leaders on September 13 to tell them that the police
would continue to provide security to the camps. Katuwal
said that the Maoists informed the police that if the police
were not willing to join a joint force for the camps, then
the Maoists were ready to provide their own security in the
camps, which they planned to begin immediately.
Comment
--------------
3. (C) Given our existing concerns about Maoist infiltration
of the Bhutanese refugee camps, Maoist efforts to insist on
providing "security" to the camps are not reassuring. It is
particularly concerning that SPA representatives, even at the
local level, are willing to countenance Maoist militia and
the Nepal Police deploying jointly in the camps, and to grant
the Maoist militia the resulting legitimacy. We continue to
push the GON to enforce law and order in the districts and to
push back against all Maoist efforts to establish parallel
government structures. Turning over the enforcement of law
and order to the very group that poses the greatest
existential challenge to the Government of Nepal is exactly
the wrong approach.
MORIARTY