The Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB) has declared jail term ranging from five to nine years for 30 Nepali-ethnic people, charging their involvement in Communist Party of Bhutan (CPB-MLM), claimed to be operated in refugee camps in Nepal, said refugee-run news portal apfanews.com.
According to the report, the court sent 30 people, who are blamed to have joined the Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist), to jail after five months long proceedings.
The accused were sentenced in accordance with the provisions of the National Security Act of Bhutan, 1992, and the Penal Code of Bhutan, 2004.
The government mouth piece Kuensel quoted the court officials saying that using a religious façade called the Srijana Sanskrit Sangathan, the group had held several meetings to discuss Maoist ideology and to collect money and food grain for the Communist Party of Bhutan. People who attended the meetings were made to fill up membership forms.
The meetings were held in Katarey and Ugyentse villages in Samtse where they are accused to have designed plans to recruit local people in their mission. Further the court said they have set up camps in the forest for armed training to locals on use of weapons and explosives, said the report.
The court said, two Class XII students, had connected with the Bhutanese in exile to attend briefing sessions on Political and Ideology Training conducted by the cadres of the CPB. The government also claimed that the Nepal Maoist and Communist Party of Nepal, Bhutan Peoples’ Party, Druk National Congress, and Bhutan Gorkha National Liberation Front were also involved in imparting training and briefing these people for use of arms.
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