Lenin Bista-Ex-Child Soldiers From Nepal

29 Apr - 5 May 2016 #806 Moving Target Lenin Sues Maoists, Gov’t & UN A group of former Maoist combatants is demanding action against the Maoist leadership for exploiting them as child soldiers Foreign Hand 0 THE DISQUALIFIED: Lenin Bista joined the Maoists at 12 and served four years in the Maoist army before being disqualified by the UN. He now heads an organisation of former child soldiers demanding action against the Maoist leadership. As the first anniversary of the great earthquake filled millions with trepidation, reports of progress made by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and less poetically named Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP) offer a glimmer of hope, delusional or otherwise. Both organisations began registering complaints as of mid-April, a year...

War victims can lodge a case against Maoist leaders with the ICC                                   "We tried to draw the government’s attention by submitting a Memorandum of Understanding, but again to no avail" - Lenin Bista By Annapurna Expresss ...

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21 Apr 2016 | 21:12pm  NABIN KHATIWADA  0 Comments Photo: Lenin Bista’s facebook Lenin Bista was just 12 years old and a sixth grader when he was recruited by the then CPN (Maoist) in 2002 to fight in the insurgency. This picture was taken at a UN-monitored camp in Shaktikhor, Chitwan around 2006. Seek action against govt, UNMIN for turning blind eye KATHMANDU, April 22:  The Discharged People's Liberation Army Struggle Committee, the association of Maoist combatants who were termed 'disqualified' during the peace process, has filed a complaint at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) demanding action against the then leadership of the CPN (Maoist) [present day UCPN (Maoist)] for exploiting them as child soldiers. On behalf of the 4,009 discharged combatants, the committee on Tuesday lodged the complaint demanding action against the Maoist leadership for using them in the insurgency although the leadership was aware that they were minors. T...

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EDITORIAL: Stop Intimidating Citizens by  Editorial Desk KATHMANDU (The Kathmandu Post/ANN) - Government’s action against Lenin Bista is a naked display of power. Lenin Bista’s life took an unusual turn when, at a tender age of 12, he was recruited by the Maoists to fight against the Nepali state. He was one of the 2,972 children who lost their childhood to the insurgency. Today, at 27, Bista is still fighting-but without a gun. He is now fighting against the social stigma associated with being a former Maoist child soldier. And he is fighting for justice and survival for his peers who are disillusioned with the dreams of a revolution filled in their minds more than a decade ago. Most of his former ‘child comrades’ are now either unemployed or have paid their way to the Gulf or Malaysia. Bista, on his part, heads an organisation that works towards securing reparation for the former child soldiers. Now a full-time social campaigner, Bista was about to fly to...

Kathmandu      August 24, 2018  By: INSEC Lenin Bista, a former Maoist child combatant, was stopped by immigration officers from flying to Bangkok today ‘for not seeking permission from any government agency for his travel’. Bista, whose trip and accommodation were sponsored by Bangkok-based Asian Resource Centre, was going to participate in a seminar titled ‘Youth in conflict areas: Healing in peace building through social engagement’. “The government may tell a government official to seek prior permission from it for a foreign tour, but why does it want a private citizen like me to take such a permission?” he wondered. Taking to INSEC Bista said he was scheduled to fly with RA 401 at 9:50 am but was prevented by immigration officers from flying and was told that he had been blacklisted. “Immigration officers seized my documents and returned them only after the plane had left for Bangkok,” he said. Stating that he feared security thre...

Nepal’s Prachanda awaiting ICC trial? NP Upadhyaya,  Kathmandu:  The fierce of the bygone Maoists era, Comrade Prachanda is visibly shaken from within. This time his fear is real. That he is a frightened political personality at the moment is evident from the manner he is expressing his inner pains upon his ‘hasty arrival’ from the United States back to his home country. He is trembling. He is terrified perhaps thinking as to what would have happened to him and his dearest wife (the one who is the witness to the chaotic and the merciless killings of the seventeen thousand plus innocent Nepali civilians during the India designed people’s war) had the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the USA acted as per the appeal made by Dr. Tilak Shrestha-a research scholar at the Kentucky University. Quite unfortunately, though the Kentucky scholar Mr. Shrestha did his job honestly and presented the voices of the voiceless and made it known to the US government a...