According to officials of the Samtse district court, 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 court had found 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 (Marxist-Leninist- Maoist). People who attended the meetings were made to fill up membership forms, a court official said.
'Seditious' meetings were conducted in Katarey and Ugyentse in Samtse, during which the participants planned to recruit local people, set up camps in the forest for belonging to the Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist-Leninist- Maoist), and to train locals in the use of weapons and explosives to start an armed rebellion (People's War) against the government.
Some of the accused, including two Class XII students, had gone to the refugee camps in eastern Nepal to attend briefing sessions on "Political and Ideology Training" conducted by the cadres of the Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist-Leninist- Maoist) to strengthen the Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist-Leninist- Maoist) in its activities against the Tsa-Wa-Sum.
Two women cadres from the camps in Nepal had met 13 of the accused at the Indian border town of Luksan in Jalpaiguri district, West Bengal, and instructed them to form a separate women's group (Revolutionary) to start a door to door awareness campaign of Maoist Communist ideology, to recruit party workers at the community level and to be prepared to undertake training in arms and explosives.
The Royal Bhutan Police believe that their main aim was to nurture and expand the Communist Party cadre so that they could set up camps inside Bhutan in collusion with the Maoist cadres of Nepal and ultimately start an armed rebellion against the government.
The Communist party of Bhutan (Marxist-Leninist- Maoist) is closely associated with the Maoist Party of Nepal. The Bhutan Tiger Force, is the militant wing of the Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist-Leninist- Maoist).
All the convicts were apprehended by the Royal Bhutan Police in Samtse in May and June this year and the cases were forwarded to the dzongkhag court on June 29. Police recovered detonators and other materials used for making improvised explosive devices, membership forms of the Communist Party of Bhutan (Marxist-Leninist- Maoist) and All Bhutan Revolutionary Student Union, note-books containing revolutionary lyrics and coded membership lists, coded names and addresses of donors and five numbers of Nepali textbooks on Communist Party from the group.
Kathmandu, 09.12.07 Según informa la agencia IANS en el vecino Bhutan fueron arrestados y encarcelados 30 personas acusadas de pertenecer al clandestino Partido Comunista de Bhutan (M-L-M). Se afirma que trabajan en la preparación de la Guerra Popular en Bhutan.La mayoria de los encarcelados son jovenes, hay dos estudiantes de secundaria, provenientes de los campos de refugiados del oriente de Nepal donde viven mas de 100.000 personas.
Las autoridades de la monarquia feudal de Bhutan afirman que se han entrenado en Nepal donde actua el clandestino PCB (MLM).
En medios cercanos a los refugiados se desmiente las informaciones monarquicas y se las califica de cortina de humo para ocultar el problema de los campos de refugiados y de la opresión feudal en el pais.
Boletín informativo do Comite Galego de Solidariedade co Nepal,
Bhutan jails 30 'Maoists' Nepal NationalSunday 9th December, 2007 (IANS)
Bhutan has sent over two dozen people of Nepali origin to prison on the allegation that they were Maoists planning to launch an armed insurgency movement like in Nepal, a report said.Thirty people, said to be supporters of the Communist party of Bhutan-Marxist- Leninist- Maoist, received a nine-year sentence each, Bhutan's official daily Kuensel reported Saturday.Two of the 30 arrested are high school students. The group is alleged to have stayed in the refugee camps in eastern Nepal, where over 100,000 Bhutanese of Nepali origin have been languishing for 17 years after being evicted by the Bhutan government, and been trained in Maoist revolutionary philosophy there.With Bhutan facing an election, the government has begun a fresh crackdown on people of Nepali origin, suspecting them of being a threat to national security.The government media says Maoists have been holding frequent secret meetings in Bhutan to trigger an anti-monarchy movement there, and have been harassing residents for food and money.Kuensel said two women from the refugee camps in Nepal went to a village in India's Jalpaiguri town, where they gave training to over a dozen people.Bhutan's security agencies are alleging that the exiled Bhutan Communist Party has links with Nepal's Maoist guerrillas, who fought a decade-old war against monarchy before declaring a truce last year. It has been trying to start an armed insurrection in Bhutan again, security agencies say.The report blames an organisation, Bhutan Tiger Force, for an explosion in the capital Thimpu, alleging the BTF is close to the Maoists.The state media said that the police have confiscated Maoist literature and pamphlets from the arrested people.However, the evicted refugees who have been living in seven closed camps in eastern Nepal deny the allegations, calling it a ploy to block their repatriation.'These are baseless allegations intended to prevent us from returning home,' Bhutanese refugee leader Balaram Poudel said.Poudel and other senior refugee leaders have been trying in the past to stage 'Long Marches' back to Bhutan, but were thwarted by the Indian police guarding the strip of Indian land they have to cross to enter Bhutan.Over 108,000 refugees have been living in Nepal's tea garden districts of Jhapa and Morang for 17 years, hoping they would be able to return home one day.However, hopes started fading after several rounds of repatriation talks between Nepal and Bhutan failed.This year, the US offered to resettle the refugees in American cities and villages and the first resettlement is expected in January.Refugees like Poudel, who want to return to Bhutan, fear once third country resettlement starts, the lessening numbers of refugees in Nepal would ease the pressure on Bhutan to take the remaining numbers back.They also fear that if Bhutan thinks it can get away with the evictions, it will force more ethnic Nepalese to leave the kingdom.
Bhutan has sent over two dozen people of Nepali origin to prison on the allegation that they were Maoists planning to launch an armed insurgency movement like in Nepal, a report said.Thirty people, said to be supporters of the Communist party of Bhutan-Marxist- Leninist- Maoist, received a nine-year sentence each, Bhutan's official daily Kuensel reported Saturday.Two of the 30 arrested are high school students. The group is alleged to have stayed in the refugee camps in eastern Nepal, where over 100,000 Bhutanese of Nepali origin have been languishing for 17 years after being evicted by the Bhutan government, and been trained in Maoist revolutionary philosophy there.With Bhutan facing an election, the government has begun a fresh crackdown on people of Nepali origin, suspecting them of being a threat to national security.The government media says Maoists have been holding frequent secret meetings in Bhutan to trigger an anti-monarchy movement there, and have been harassing residents for food and money.Kuensel said two women from the refugee camps in Nepal went to a village in India's Jalpaiguri town, where they gave training to over a dozen people.Bhutan's security agencies are alleging that the exiled Bhutan Communist Party has links with Nepal's Maoist guerrillas, who fought a decade-old war against monarchy before declaring a truce last year. It has been trying to start an armed insurrection in Bhutan again, security agencies say.The report blames an organisation, Bhutan Tiger Force, for an explosion in the capital Thimpu, alleging the BTF is close to the Maoists.The state media said that the police have confiscated Maoist literature and pamphlets from the arrested people.However, the evicted refugees who have been living in seven closed camps in eastern Nepal deny the allegations, calling it a ploy to block their repatriation.'These are baseless allegations intended to prevent us from returning home,' Bhutanese refugee leader Balaram Poudel said.Poudel and other senior refugee leaders have been trying in the past to stage 'Long Marches' back to Bhutan, but were thwarted by the Indian police guarding the strip of Indian land they have to cross to enter Bhutan.Over 108,000 refugees have been living in Nepal's tea garden districts of Jhapa and Morang for 17 years, hoping they would be able to return home one day.However, hopes started fading after several rounds of repatriation talks between Nepal and Bhutan failed.This year, the US offered to resettle the refugees in American cities and villages and the first resettlement is expected in January.Refugees like Poudel, who want to return to Bhutan, fear once third country resettlement starts, the lessening numbers of refugees in Nepal would ease the pressure on Bhutan to take the remaining numbers back.They also fear that if Bhutan thinks it can get away with the evictions, it will force more ethnic Nepalese to leave the kingdom.
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