Tuesday, March 29, 2011

NA proposes separate unit comprising of Maoist combatants, police and army personnel

Nepal Army (NA) has proposed to form a separate general directorate under its command comprising of certain number of personnel from NA, Nepal Police, Armed Police Force (APF) and Maoist combatants to complete the peace process, Kantipur daily reported.

In a report submitted to Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal, Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) Chhatraman Singh Gurung has said, a general directorate with up to 12,000 personnel could be formed and deployed for special tasks like border, industrial or forest security and for rescue works in case of natural disasters.

In the model proposed by NA, the general directorate will be led by a Major General and will have about 200 officers. The force will be divided into smaller units of about 250 personnel and will be led by Majors. In the proposal NA has specified the issues in which it can show flexibility and the ones in which it cannot compromise. NA has ruled out the possibility of bulk integration.

Likewise it has also ruled out the induction of Maoist combatants accused of serious human rights violations, those who fled security agencies and those in central or regional committees of UCPN (Maoist). However, NA has said, it can show some flexibility in the criteria on education qualification, physical exercises marital status and age bar. UCPN (Maoist) has not responded to the NA proposal. nepalnews.com

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