27 Mar, 2007
KATHMANDU: An all-women team of human rights activists and journalists who visited violence-hit Gaur town to investigate the massacre last week - in which at least 29 people were killed — will seek an appointment with Indian ambassador to Nepal Shiv Shankar Mukherjee to express serious concerns about Indian criminal gangs possible involvement and the rise in anti-social activities on both sides of the border. Shobha Gautam, coordinator of Shanti Malika, an umbrella of 18 rights organisations, told the media in Kathmandu on Monday, after returning from the southern district, that her team was concerned at the stepped-up campaigning in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh by local Indian leaders in support of the ongoing agitation in the Terai for an autonomous Madhes state for plains people. The controversial nature of some of the Indian leaders campaigning in Bairgania and Katihar in India has raised fear in Nepal that armed men from across the border could have sneaked in and unleashed violence in Gaur. Bihar leader Anand Mohan Singh, whose name came up in the lynching of Gopalganj district magistrate G Krishnaiyah in 1994, who was found carrying arms inside Lok Sabha four years later, and has been named in over two dozen criminal cases, had been campaigning in border towns before and after the violence in Nepal. Also present at some of the public rallies were Bihar politicians Dadan Singh Yadav, who was dubbed Pahalwan for advocating the infusion of wrestling in politics, former Bihar health minister Shakuni Chaudhary and former MP Rambachan Paswan. Various rights group returning from Gaur say the carnage was pre-planned with at least three girls being brutally raped and then beaten to death with bricks and stones.
KATHMANDU: An all-women team of human rights activists and journalists who visited violence-hit Gaur town to investigate the massacre last week - in which at least 29 people were killed — will seek an appointment with Indian ambassador to Nepal Shiv Shankar Mukherjee to express serious concerns about Indian criminal gangs possible involvement and the rise in anti-social activities on both sides of the border. Shobha Gautam, coordinator of Shanti Malika, an umbrella of 18 rights organisations, told the media in Kathmandu on Monday, after returning from the southern district, that her team was concerned at the stepped-up campaigning in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh by local Indian leaders in support of the ongoing agitation in the Terai for an autonomous Madhes state for plains people. The controversial nature of some of the Indian leaders campaigning in Bairgania and Katihar in India has raised fear in Nepal that armed men from across the border could have sneaked in and unleashed violence in Gaur. Bihar leader Anand Mohan Singh, whose name came up in the lynching of Gopalganj district magistrate G Krishnaiyah in 1994, who was found carrying arms inside Lok Sabha four years later, and has been named in over two dozen criminal cases, had been campaigning in border towns before and after the violence in Nepal. Also present at some of the public rallies were Bihar politicians Dadan Singh Yadav, who was dubbed Pahalwan for advocating the infusion of wrestling in politics, former Bihar health minister Shakuni Chaudhary and former MP Rambachan Paswan. Various rights group returning from Gaur say the carnage was pre-planned with at least three girls being brutally raped and then beaten to death with bricks and stones.
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