Many women of villages of Kushmishera VDC in Baglung district, leaving their household chores, joined the ‘exposure programs and people’s movement’ organized by People’s Front Nepal (PFN) by chanting anti-Maoist slogans (like the one above) on Sunday.

Such programs have been spreading like wildfire in the villages in the aftermath of the Maoists’ acts of brutality when they cruelly tortured two dozens PFN members, including men and women, by piercing their bodies with drilling equipment last Monday.

The ‘exposure campaign’ has been further stepped up in the district with the backing of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unity Center-Masal).

The party’s politburo member Chitra Bahadur KC arrived in the district in order to mobilize the party activists toward this end.

Speaking at a mass meeting here in Kushmishera, Sunday, KC said that the Maoists were defaming the communist movement.

"What politics are they practicing by piercing their rival’s bodies?" he questioned.

"It is already getting late, and we have to work together against their atrocities," he added. He also reiterated that his party would not rest until it spread the present movement countrywide.

Speaking on the occasion, various PFN leaders said that they would retaliate the Maoists’ atrocities as they are going over the limit lately.

"We are fed up with the Maoists now ," a woman from Kushmishera said, while adding, " we just want our leaders’ support to expose the Maoists’ vicious acts against civilians and PFN members."

Several PFN activists who were tortured in Maoist captivity have challenged the Maoists to face their ‘ideological war’. "We fully support the current movement against the Maoists since they are engaged in such heinous acts after failing to win the people’s support," they said.

KC also informed that similar protest programs in all the 75 district headquarters are also in the pipeline.

Various human rights organizations have already reached the place to probe into the Maoists’ atrocities against women and PFN cadres.

From: http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=24807