Province No. 5 (NA): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2009

Kantipuronline reports that one person, identified as Ashok Kumar Yadav of Motipur, died in a bomb blast at Belahath in the Dang District on January 1. Read less...

The Himalayan Times reports that the Maoists are putting pressure to appoint their party cadres in the vacant seats of school teachers in the Rupandehi District against the rules. The Maoists are resorting to recruit their cadres illegally in the Government schools of the District, according to a press conference organised on January 6 by the Rupandehi chapter of the Nepal Teachers' Union in Butwal. Read less...

Kantipuronline reports that the Police recovered over a dozen socket bombs reportedly left behind by cadres of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist) from the house of former Appellate Court judge, Yam Narayan Dhital, at Madhuvan under Dhodhari Village Development Committee (VDC-8) in the Baridya District on January 20. Read less...

Tharuhut Autonomous State Council, a Terai based ethnic group, has mobilised its armed militants at Deukhori of Dang District to takeover the soil, water and forest resources, reports Kantipuronline. The Council has been struggling for separate Tharu statehood with the right to self determination and rights over the soil, water and forest resources." We deployed our soldiers as the Government turned a deaf ear to our demands," said Yogendra Chaudhary, the Council's vice chairman. The Council claims to have imposed a ban on the transport of stones, sand, timbers, coal and other resources of Dang District to the outer Districts. On January 28, the Tharuhut cadres had held 15 trucks laden with timber and coal at Lamahi. Meanwhile, the Tharuhut cadres have forced closed three VDC offices in the district for not inviting the Council members at important meetings and not providing donation. All works at Halbar, Gadawa and Gangaparaspur VDCs in Dang have been halted due to the closure. Saran Chaudhary, District Chairman of the Council said, "Our mother party Sanghiya Loktantrik Morcha must be invited in all VDC meetings and the VDC offices must pay us the donation sum that we demand." Read less...