'Revenge intention main cause of Gaur carnage' [ 2007-3-27 ]
By A Staff Reporter
KATHMANDU, Mar. 26: Intention of revenge and lack of farsightedness of the local administration were the major reasons of the Gaur incident on March 21, where 27 people were killed during a clash between the Maoists and Madhesi People's Rights Forum supporters, Shantimalika (Women for Peace) said Monday.

At a press conference organised after the observational study tour carried out at Gaur, the women rights activists said that most of the dead persons were beaten with bamboo sticks, some women were raped and the dead bodies were found burnt and mutilated.

They said there could be involvement of political activists from across the border as there were some pamphlets and newspapers ads in the Indian newspapers which had urged the locals to participate in the political meetings in India to gather support for Terai movement in Nepal.

Among the 27 killed during the clash, 12 dead bodies were found five-km away from Gaur bazaar. The findings also showed that the Maoists were equally responsible for the incident.

A Shantimalika press release stated that the perpetrators used stones, bricks, sticks and guns to attack the members of Young Communist League and killed them brutally.

"We came to a conclusion that the goons chased Prativa Khatun, Saraswaoti Upreti and Pratima Pariyar, raped them and killed," Shova Gautam, leader of the study team said.

"However, doctors involved in the postmortem and the police officers refuted the claim of rape," she said.

Similarly, the perpetrators seemed to be offered human sacrifice to a goddess in the local temple, she said. "The walls of the temple was smeared with blood."

The locals were found terrified and they did not want to speak to the strangers, they said.
Shantimalika has also recommended beefing up security at the border, investigating into the case thoroughly, bringing the guilty under book and making them compensate for the loss of lives and property.

Meanwhile RSS adds: An hour-long sit-in was staged here today condemning the gruesome killing of 28 people in the incident that recently took place in Gaur, Rautahat district.

The participants of the sit-in rally who included, among others, human rights activists, journalists, artists, doctors and litterateurs, carried placards with slogans calling for ending the impunity, protection of human rights and maintaining religious and ethnic goodwill.

The civil society leaders participating in the sit-in called on the government to take action against the culprits responsible for perpetrating the incident and to take measures so that incidents of this nature do not take place again in future.

Speaking at a meeting held after the sit-in protest programme, they said that after the Gaur carnage, the country has got the identity in the international arena as a country where mass killing is prevalent.

They alleged that the government was apathetic toward stopping the anarchy and height of intolerance seen in the Gaur incident and it had also not shown interest in ratifying the charter of the International Criminal Court.

Those expressing their views at the meeting were human rights leaders Sushil Pyakurel, Prof. Kapil Shrestha and Krishna Pahadi, Dr. Aruna Upreti and poet Arjun Parajuli.

Purushottam Dahal, President of the Human Rights and Peace Society (HURPES) the organisation that organised the sit-in, said HURPES was investigating the Gaur killings and would make its report public within a week's time.
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This is the interesting part:
Similarly, the perpetrators seemed to be offered human sacrifice to a goddess in the local temple. "The walls of the temple was smeared with blood."