Rolpa, Rukum & Jayarkot districts in Western Nepal have had the highest
number of casualties and faced the worst type of state repression during
the first one year of the people's war. Even among these Mirul village in
the lap of the mighty Jaljala mountains in Rolpa district has borne the brunt
of severest genocidal campaign by the reactionary state, where more than
a dozen revolutionary activists and peasants have been brutally murdered
by the police and their hirelings.
The worst instance of state terrorism and genocide so far was witnessed in
this red bastion inhabited by poor peasants of oppressed nationalities of
Kham Magar stock on November 17, 1996. On that day armed police forces and
state protected goons from the surrounding areas descended on Mirul, ransacked
the peasant households and took into custody almost all the unarmed adult
population from two wards of Rapa and Bisauni in the Mirul VDC. While the
rest were released subsequently after thorough screening and dire warnings,
five of them were taken to a nearby jungle and shot dead. Those brutally
murdered were 70 year old Bardan Roka, 65 year old Singha Budha and Bal Prasad
Roka, Dilman Roka and Kumari Budha. The young woman revolutionary Kumari
Budha was still alive when her body was set on fire.
On December 3, Sunsara Budha along with her 2 year old daughter was captured,
stripped naked, paraded through villages and shot dead In front of her infant
child by the armed state goons.
Similar instances of state terrorism and brutality have recurred regularly
in Mirul with a view to shatter the revolutionary will-power of the masses
into submission. However, the terror tactics has boomeranged on the
reactionaries. Not only have the peasant masses boldly resisted this repression,
they have retaliated by eliminating the enemy agents in the village and virtually
seized the local power In their own hands. Mirul has thus shown the way for
the liberation of the oppressed masses in the country.