People's Liberation Army Captured Royal Nepalese Army's Base Camp
159 Royal Army Died, Heavy amount of Weapons and Ammunitions Seized

Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
People’s Liberation Army, Nepal
Western Division
Press Statement

Struggling against extra-ordinary complexities compliant with the law of revolution, the Nepalese People’s War, by entering into the strategic offensive, is advancing victoriously to a height of the first plan. The People’s Liberation Army illuminated by the light of MLM and Prachanda Path is attaining military superiority over the white army equipped with imperialist war-technology and training.

In this course, we proclaim with proud that Western Division of the People’s Liberation Army, by starting assault at 17:40 on August 7, 2005 upon the base camp of the white army at Pili in Kalikot, has attained a decent victory at 4:00 in the next morning. People’s Liberation Army has captured highly explosive materials and important war equipments including an 81 mm Barrel with 150 bombs; one GPMG barrel with 5,000 ammunitions; 20 Barrels of LMG with 12,000 ammunitions; 70 barrels of INSAS Rifle with 30,000 ammunitions; 80 barrels of SLR with 21,000 ammunitions; 2 barrels of SMG with 3,000 ammunitions; 2 barrels of Browning Pistol with 2,000 ammunitions; 2 barrels of 2” mortar with 200 bombs etc. Out of 250 of the so-called security personnels, 159 have been annihilated and more than 50 are captured as the prisoners of war.

On the side of the People’s Liberation Army, 26 fighters including Battalion Commissar comrade Lokesh (Sharad Avasthi) have been martyred and some are wounded. The hard effort of the PLA equipped with high morale, sense of sacrifice and the ideology of Prachanda path, and the role of the supreme commander Prachanda who guided and inspired by this ideology have had an important role to achieve this victory. The well wishes of anti-despotic political forces too had inspired for this triumph. This victory is also the victory against imperialism, feudalism and non-proletarian trends.

We offer heartily tribute to those heroic martyrs who sacrificed their invaluable lives for this important victory. Also, we express heartily condolence to the agonized family members and comrades fighting in arms with a wishing that, may it inspire to grasp the sacrificing culture of transforming epoch by the blood of history. We heartily wish for the fast improvement of health of the wounded comrades. We express heartily congratulations and thanks to the commissars, commanders of different levels, including Division deputy commander comrade Bibidh, who played an important role while preparing this plan of action and its implementation, and fighters, local party and masses from the base area.

Finally, let the revolutionaries grasp the fact that acquiring victory through losses is the law of war! The final victory is definite.

August 8, 2005
With revolutionary greetings!

Prabhakar
Commander
Western Division
People’s Liberation Army, Nepal
CPN (Maoist)