Former child-combatants should be treated fairly: Lenin Bis

Former child-combatants should be treated fairly: Lenin Bista

Published On: April 12, 2019 06:53 PM NPT By: Republica |

KATHMANDU, April 12: Lenin Bista, a former child soldier during the decade long Maoist insurgency has sought “fair treatment of former child-combatants who lost their youth to conflict.” He added that the decision of the government and UNMIN had “deprived (them) of (their) right to live with respect and dignity.”

United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) said that there were 2,973 child combatants declared unfit to be considered for integration into the Nepal Army during the integration.

In his letter to Virginia Gamba, special representative for children and armed conflict of the UN Secretary-General, Bista highlighted how the issues of child soldiers were never raised by the negotiating parties during and after the peace process. “(Child soldiers) faced various physical and mental tortures but also are organized and fighting to get recognition and rehabilitation for the former child soldiers, among whom distress is high and are seeking justice and respected life,” the letter reads.

In turn, Bista has urged the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict of the UN Secretary-General, UN to pressurize the government of Nepal to end to the practice of attaching disqualified in front or behind their individual names and not to provide compensation as per their rank.

He has also sought an apology from all sides –UNMIN, Maoists and the government for labelling them as disqualified; using them in conflict, and disqualifying them during the integration respectively.

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Lenin Bista from Kavrepalanchok district was recruited as a child soldier in 2002 when he was 12 years old. He served the Communist Party of Nepal – Maoist’s ‘People’s War’ for seven years before the peace process started in November 2006. During the verification for integration into the Nepal Army by the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN), Bista along with other 2,973 child soldiers were declared unfit and incapable. Since then, Bista has been leading the Discharged People’s Liberation Army Struggle Committee along with his friends demanding the fair treatment of the discharged child soldiers and remove the label of ‘unqualified’ given during the integration process. They have been further demanding rehabilitation of those child soldiers who are adult now with financial support and a dignified recognition for serving the liberation of people during the war. Despite various attempts of several Maoist's splinters to obstruct their movement, Bista and his colleagues have bee...

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