New Delhi
16 August 2005
The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has said
that it would cooperate with the United Nations human rights body and
that all courtesies extended to the UN agency would also be applied in
the case of organisations like the International Red Cross.
In a press statement issued to "clarify party policy in connection with
human rights and development", CPN (Maoist) Chairman Prachanda said
in a signed email that the CPN(Maoist) would "allow the [UN commission]
to travel to any part of the country influenced by the conflict, to study and
inspect the sensitive spot of incident, to visit the prisoners under our
control and to help carry out discussion and interaction with different units
of our party according to necessity."
Asserting the CPN(Maoist)'s conviction in upholding the spirit of the
Geneva convention on human rights, Prachanda said the party has been
"keeping up with respectful and humanly behaviour towards the prisoners
of war and releasing them in a process has justified the said conviction in
practice."
The Maoist leader claimed that the Royal Nepalese Army's propaganda
that 40 RNA soldiers were killed in cold blood by the Maoists was "totally
imaginary, false and conspiratorial". He went on to appeal human rights
organisations to raise their voice against against "unsighted air attack"
by the Nepalese Army in remote villages.
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