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Kin of Nepalese killed in Iraq on August 2004 to be paid
May 23, 2008May 23, 2008 Add comment0 comments Nepali News Nepali News

Kin of Nepalese killed in Iraq on August 2004 to be paid

 

The Us Administrative Law Court for the Department of Labor has ordered a monthly compensation from employers to the families of nine of the 12 Nepalese who were killed in Iraq by a local terrorist outfit about four years back.

 

The court, in its verdict, ordered monthly compensation of US$ 230 to 250 to each spouse and set of parents of the slain workers with an additional US$75 for orphan children, from the Jordanian company Daoud & Partner, which was a sub-contractor to the US firm Killog, Brown and Root.

 

The court issued the separate verdicts on 4th April and in late April this year.

 

Administrative Law Judge Larry W. Price handed down the verdicts.

 

"It was very difficult to prove that the workers were employed by Daoud & Partner as they were sent to Iraq in very suspicious circumstances," Mathew K Handley, the lead attorney for the Nepali workers, said on Thursday from the US. "This has been a hard fight and a difficult case but justice prevailed at the end of the day," said Handley, who had been in Nepal between 1997 and 1999 with his wife as Peace Corps volunteers.


The court said the families of Budhan Bahadur Shah of Dhanusha and Mangal Bahadur Limbu of Dhankuta were disqualified for the compensation as they did not have any dependents. However, the family of Bhes Bahadur Thapa of Rolpa refused to be compensated.


"We tried to communicate with the family members of Bhes Bahadur Thapa but we found them so upset that they did not want to remember the event" Handley said.

 

He will be traveling to Nepal from June 7-21 this year to distribute the initial payment to the survivors of the victims. "We look forward to be in Nepal once again and enjoy the beauty of the country and the warmth of the Nepal people and above all meet these families face to face" he concluded.

 

An Islamist group called the Army of Answar al-Sunna took the Nepalese workers hostage before brutally killing them on 20th August 2004, alleging they co-operated with the US in fighting Islam.

 

Those killed by the group in cold blood were Prakash Thakuri (Jhapa), Ramesh Khadka (Lalitpur), Lalan Singh Koiri (Dhanush) Jeet Magar (Gorkha), Gyanendra Shrestha (Khotang), Manoj Thakur (Dhanush) and Bishnu Thapa (Lamjung), Budhan Sahan (Dhanusa), Mangal Limbu (Dhankuata) and Bhes Bahadur Thapa (Rolpa).

 

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