United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) has disqualified 12,395 Maoist combatants. Publicizing the result of verification, the UNMIN today said the corrected number of personnel registered in the first phase was 31,318 and 18,923 of these personnel were verified in the second phase as members of the Maoist army.
Issuing a press statement, the UNMIN has said that an additional 932 persons who had not been registered in the first phase were presented for the verification process in the second phase. 679 of this total were verified as members of the Maoist army.
The statement further stated that 8,640 personnel did not appear for verification interviews in the second phase and were automatically disqualified.
According to UNMIN, 4,008 persons remain to be discharged from cantonments after the total of absentees has been taken into account. 2,973 of this total were assessed to be under the age of 18 on 25 May 2006.
Stating that the verification process was a difficult one, requiring thousands of individual interviews, and it was a rigorous one, UNMIN has expressed appreciation of the good cooperation received from the Maoist army once initial difficulties had been resolved.
"In signing the 23-point agreement, the parties have rightly acknowledged that the burden is now on implementation of commitments – to the election to which they have committed themselves, to dialogue, and to transforming existing agreements from rhetoric to reality. The United Nations stands ready to extend all necessary assistance", reads the release.
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