Hundreds of Nepalese were lured by the promise of high paycheques and Russian citizenship. Now they’re trapped, wounded or dead.
Nepal’s government is negotiating with Russia diplomatically for the repatriation of its citizens and the bodies of the deceased, the families of civilian-turned-mercenaries are losing patience. On Tuesday, the families demonstrated outside the Russian embassy in Kathmandu, demanding that their relatives be sent back, dead bodies be repatriated, fresh recruitments be halted and compensation be offered for those killed in combat.
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Sharmila Giri says her husband Rajkumar envisioned a better life for their children than the one they were living in Chitwan, a town in Nepal’s lowlands.
The war was not quite the weekend romp Russian President Vladimir Putin envisioned, with his troops facing fierce resistance from a well-armed Ukrainian army.
In 2022, Putin mobilised 300,000 Russian men to bolster his efforts in Ukraine, and relied on mercenary groups like Wagner to boost numbers with dastardly strategies like recruiting convicts straight out of penal colonies.
But the ABC has obtained a confidential document from Nepal’s foreign ministry that shows 240 families have informed the department about relatives who have joined the Russian army.
Typically, a recruiter or agent approaches you with an education or job opportunity in Russia and all you’re required to do is deposit tens of thousands of dollars into a nominated bank account to arrange all the paperwork and travel costs.
A travel agent will get you into a city like Dubai or Kuala Lumpur — places where it is fairly easy for Nepalese to get a tourist visa.
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That’s fucked.
Fucked up if people belive this bullshit. +2 years already war with all the global negative impact…
They all dream about make easy money by killing people nothing else and start crying if Russia fucks them more.
He doesn’t complain about the killing either - that’s completely ok for him. As long as it’s Ukrainians and not him…
@0x815 whoever makes a deal with the evil empire is a fool.
