Agreement between the GoN and Madhesh Mukti Tigers

• Country/entity

  Nepal
  
• Region

  Asia and Pacific
  
• Agreement name

  Agreement between the GoN and Madhesh Mukti Tigers
• Date

  20 Mar 2009
• Agreement status

  Multiparty signed/agreed
• Interim arrangement

  Yes
• Agreement/conflict level

  Intrastate/local conflict ( Nepalese Insurgency (1996 - 2006) )
• Stage

  Ceasefire/related
• Conflict nature

  Government/territory
• Peace process

  Nepal related-local processes
• Parties

  On behalf of Madhesh Mukti Tigers
  Sd.
  Bhola Prasad Mukhiya
  Coordinator
  
  On behalf of GoN Talks Team
  Sd.
  Janardhan Sharma ‘Prabhakar’
  Coordinator
• Third parties

  -
• Description

  An agreement in which the Madhesh Mukti Tigers agree to suspend violent activities and enter into talks with the Government of Nepal

• Agreement document

  NP_090320_GoN and Madhesh Mukti Tigers.pdf | Download PDF

Local agreement properties

• Process type

  Formal structured process
  
• Rationale

  A dialogue team was set up by the Maoist-led government, which won the elections in April 2008. This dialogue team was again led/coordinated by the Minister for Peace and Reconstruction, Mr Janardhan Sharma. This team pursued dialogue with the team of Madhesh Mukti Tigers
• Is there a documented link to a national peace process?

  Yes
• Link to national process: articulated rationale

  Despite groups like these bordering to what can be called criminal outfits, their demands were framed around the discourse of inclusion, including federalism, promotion of non-Nepali languages, greater representation in state organs.
• Name of Locale

  Tarai
• Nature Of Locale

  Region
• GPS Lat/Long (DD)

  27.000000, 84.000000
• Participant type

  Central state actor
  Local armed group
  
• Mediator, facilitator or similar

  No mention of mediator or similar

Local issues

Agreement between the GoN and Madhesh Mukti Tigers

On March 20, 2009, dialogue was held in a cordial atmosphere between the Talks Team of the Government of Nepal (GoN) and the Talks Team of the Madhesh Mukti Tigers [Madhesh Liberation Tigers] in Kathmandu.

For the institutional development and strengthening of Nepal’s progressive transformation and the federal democratic republic, the process of drafting a new people-centric constitution is taking pace.

With the belief that it is possible to grant rights to all classes, castes, regions, genders and communities through the new constitution, remaining committed to aiding the tasks of constitution drafting process and peace process to reach its logical conclusion in order to ensure the identity and rights to all;

embracing the principles of sovereignty, integrity, national interest and national unity, an agreement was reached on the following points.

1. The GoN shall be responsible for the security of the members of the Talks Team during the period of dialogue.

2. The Madhesh Mukti Tigers shall cease its violent and aggressive activities and shall not engage in any unlawful activities.

The GoN shall treat the group leaders and activists as political actors.

3. The Madhesh Mukti Tigers shall make available a list of persons imprisoned in the course of agitation to the GoN, and the GoN shall gradually release them after investigations.

4. The Madhesh Mukti Tigers shall furnish its list of additional demands at the next round of talk and the date of talk shall be fixed with mutual agreement.

On behalf of Madhesh Mukti Tigers

Sd.

Bhola Prasad Mukhiya

Coordinator

On behalf of GoN Talks Team

Sd.

Janardhan Sharma ‘Prabhakar’

Coordinator