Interview DIG Pratap Singh Thapa

While police and the other security agencies have been focused on containing various combat outfits in the Tarai-Madesh districts, a new trend of forming similar armed groups in the hills has come to

the fore.In a recent operation carried out jointly by the Special Bureau of Nepal Police and the Metropolitan Police Commissioner’s Office, Ranipokhari, police uncovered the activities of an armed outfit identified as the Mongol Mulbasi Rastriya Force, with the arrest of leaders and cadres of the group. The armed outfit, comprising three smaller outfits-Mongol National Force, Mongol Mulbasi

Force (Kinrati) and Samyukta Jatiya Mukti Morcha-was formed only last year and was found to have been active in the hill districts.The new trend of forming armed outfits with the participation of former rebels of the Maoists and other extremist groups and ethnic communities came to the fore with the arrest of a suspect in Bhaktapur last week.

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