Title: ISI revives Madhyesi Tigers in Nepal
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Publication: Intelligence Online
Date: May 8, 2002
URL: http://www.intelligenceonline.net/allintelligencefull.asp?id=21309212052121&recno=922

7 May 2002: Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence is reactivating the Madhyesi Tigers Organisation (MTO) that is demanding autonomy of the Terai region of Nepal, top officials said.

The organisation has been renamed Madhyesi Mukti Morcha (MMM) and is politically active since January 2002.

MMM has a 14-point agenda for complete autonomy and is pressing the Nepal government to accept it.

Officials say that MMM activists are now operating in collusion with Maoist guerillas in southwestern Nepal.

Indian officials are concerned that the outfit is trying to fill the political vacuum created by the death of Gajendra Narayan Singh of the Nepal Sadbhavna Party (NSP).

Singh was pro-India and had played an important role in making the NSP a prominent organisation in the Terai region of Nepal.

The Madhyesi Tigers were on the political fringes during Singh’s lifetime and was often identified as a terrorist group.

Intelligence officials said that MMM has been revived by the ISI to neutralise Indian influence in the Terai region.