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Kathmandu Wednesday April 25, 2001 Baishakh 12, 2058.
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Bereaved widow longing for abducted son’s return
Post Report
KHAIRA, Pyuthan, April 24- Sabitra Acharya,
70, from Khaira VDC has been shrieking for two reasons over the last week. One for the
death of her husband and the other for her youngest son, Police Sub-Inspector Shyam Kumar
Acharya who was recently abducted by the Maoist rebels.
Sabitra screams and falls unconscious
immediately while mourning her beloved husband who passed away last week. Her other three
sons, who are also mourning their father’s death, seem helpless at her mother’s
pathetic state. But they cannot put up with the tears falling down her face all the time.
"I see around the hills with a bleak
hope that my son would join to mourn his father. But my eyes sore and cannot see him
around," Sabitra said and dashed into the room. Her relatives try to console her but
she cannot put up with this dire state.
Her son stationed at the District Police
Office in Rukum, was abducted by the Maoist rebels from a hotel at Dakha Quadi VDC
following a "warrant from Maoist People’s Court" a week ago. Acharya’s
whereabout is still unknown though it has been seven days since he was kidnapped.
"We are dissatisfied with what the
Maoists inflicted upon us," Sub-Inspector Acharya’s eldest brother Mina Ketan
told The Kathmandu Post. He said they were deprived even of mourning their father. Acharya
was kidnapped on the way to his house shortly after he was informed about the sad news.
Acharya’s mother fell unconscious when
she did not find her son among a dozen policemen, who went her home to visit the bereaved
family, led by Madhav Pokharel, in-charge of the Bijuwar-based police outpost.
Before he passed away, Acharya’s father
had told his wife not to call him back home. "My husband said so out of his divine
realisation that he would face hardship," she lamented.
The eldest brother still hoped that his
brother would come home back unhurt as he committed nothing wrong. He added that his
family would call media, human rights organisations and lawyers for his release from the
Maoist captivity if they did not do so within the mourning period, the 13th day of the
death.
Maoist have not yet made it public the reason
behind his abduction. "They (Maoists) do not have any humanity and they are least
concerned with the cultural aspect," Mina Ketan rebuked. Also, he said that he had no
hope that the government and the police would free his brother from their captivity.
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