Two school students in uniform reached the Local Peace Committee (LPC) office to register their complaints in Lamjung district on Tuesday.

The two siblings, one 15-year-old and another 13, students of the Besishahar-based school, reached the LPC office to file complaints against the erstwhile Maoist combatants. According to them, their father was killed in an ambush planted by the Maoists in 2003.

“We came to the LPC office during the lunch break to register complaints against then-rebel Maoists. However, we don’t know who they are,” said the 15-year-old girl. “Our mother also left us after the incident.”

The eldest of the girls was two years old when their father died. Currently, they are taking shelter at the Women and Children Development Centre in Besishahar. Secretary of the centre, Huma Gurung said they have sheltered the girls since early childhood.

Secretary of the LPC Kiran Lamichhane said Rs300,000 had been provided so far in the name of the victim of Udipur VDC-4. But his daughters had not got any of it. The data at the LPC shows 151 people were killed during the Maoist insurgency in the district.