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| Kathmandu, Monday May 06, 2002 Baishakh 23, 2059. |
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Missing
Kamaiya labelled Maoist
By Chitranga Thapa
MAHENDRANAGAR, May
5:Three per cent of freed ‘A’ class Kamaiya families who were residing in
several camps in Kanchanpur district are found missing. There is a speculation that those
Kamaiya families have joined the Maoist rebels waging so-called people’s war in the
country.
Even the concerned body
is uninformed about the whereabouts of the missing Kamaiya. The missing of the Kamaiya
came to the light recently in the process of distributing aids to the freed Kamaiya as a
part of their rehabilitation.
As the actual
information on the whereabouts of those Kamaiya is still unknown, the sources claim that
many of ‘B’ class Kamaiya are also possibly missing in the district.
According to District
Land Revenue Office (DLRO), three per cent of the ‘A’ class Kamaiya did not show
up to claim the amount distributed for their rehabilitation till April 22, the last day of
the aid distribution.
"78 among the
total of 2,456 Kamaiya families have not claimed the amount," Bishan Singha Thapa, an
officer in DLRO said. "Some may have remained absent because in the lack of the
citizenship certificate, however, the whereabouts of the others is unknown."
Those who believed that
the Maoist rebels are using the camps as the shelters said that they had probably joined
the rebels.
However, according to
Bal Bahadur Dagauta, a member of the District Development Committee (DDC), some of the
absent Kamaiya families might have gone to India for employment.
According to the DLRO,
Rs. 8,000 per family is provided to rest of the "A" class freed Kamaiya in the
first installment of the support.
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