KUSUM ATTACK

Presented by:
O/C Sushil Bhatt
 Sequence of presentation:
 Introduction
 Detailof Incident
 Date and time of incident
 Location of incident
 Base commander
 Platoon Commander and sector Commander
 Detail of case
 Aftermath
 SWOT Analysis
 Lesion Learnt
 Conclusion
INTRODUCTION:
 Lumbini province.

 Small market that lies 70

km far away from the Nepalgunj
sub metro Politian city.
 Established: 2060 jestha 30
 Former kusum village development committee, ward number 2
 Rapti Sonari Rural Development Municipality ward number 1.
 Base camp was under the command of Dysp including 211 soldiers.
 208 soldiers were present.
 There were total 24 posts including over and underground and bunkers.
 There were 2 high points 9 LMG posts and was under 24 hours duty.
 Total area of kusum base is 500 square meters.
 HISTORY:

 On 2052 magh 22 contemporary 40 points demand infront of

government.
 Government denied their demand.
 NCP declared armed rebellion against Nepal government on
2052 falgun 1.
 This armed rebellion remained for 10 yrs.
 Due to severe security state of country government has decided to
establish a paramilitary like organization on 2058 kartik7.
 Nepal police used to have a small police circle in that place.
 Attack of Maoist in 2057 Nepal police left that place and was
empty till 2060.
 In that empty place Armed police Force established a base
camp known as Kusum Base camp on 2060 jestha.
 DETAIL OF INCIDENT:
Date and time of incident: On 2060/6/23 from 21:30 to 4:30.
 Location of incident: Banke district,Rapti Sonari rural municipality
ward no 1.
Base commander: DSP Gajendra Bahadur Shahi
 Platoon commander and sector commanders:
 No.1 sector: Inspector Tanka Bahadur Khadka

No.2 sector: Inspector Naresh Kumar Paudel

 No .3 sector: Inspector Mahendra Bharati.
 Detail of case:
 Burst fire of LMG came from northern side from a dense forest
at 21:30 hrs.

 Hostiles
attacked from all the directions with maximum
weapons, grenades, bombs and tried to enter inside the base.

 Started returning appropriate fire immediately.

 SHC Tej Bahadur Darji was gun shot by insurgents
 Replaced by ASI Hari Nepali.
 After some time he was also gun shot by insurgents.
 Insurgents captured that post and LMG and entered the base and
started rapid fire.
 As a result forced them to go back from the base.
 Hostiles attacked with the help of rocket launcher, 2” mortar, GPMG,
LMG, as a support weapons and SLR, 303 SMG as assault weapons.

 In this incident APF, Nepal personals became Marty’s and 9 were

deadly injured.
 In the incident number 1 sector was destroyed by hostile by bomb
This incident took place upto 7 hours.

A lot of weapons of hostile were also captured.

Due to the obstacle created by hostile in the road the support

team of Bageshwori Battalion of samsejung were unable to
reach on time and they reach on 5: 50 am on the morning.
Aftermath:
 53 dead bodies of hostiles .
 According to locals many much insurgents were killed during
attack but they were evacuated during night time.
 Large number of arms and ammunitions were captured by APF,
Nepal.
 3 APF, Nepal soldiers were killed during that attack.
 According to APF, Nepal intelligence company commander of
◦ Strength:

 Good command control.

 Strong field fortification and regular practice of stand to in
the camp.
 High morale.
 Good coordination, appropriate controlled use of arms and
ammunitions.
 Troops.
 CASEVAC.
 Arms and ammunitions
Weakness:

 stoppage in the weapons.

 Unable to get quick support .

 Lack of good medical facility inside camp .

 Due to undulating and dead ground near the main gate.

 Lack of advanced weapons hostiles dominated us to some extent.

◦ Opportunities:

 Opportunity for APF, Nepal to prove that it is a strong force.

 Morale of the whole APF, Nepal was boosted.

 Importance of the field fortification and proper planning

was highlighted.
 Threats:
 Old and damaged weapons inside the organizations.
 Very low and limited opportunities may lead lack of human
resource.
 Low salary to soldiers made them to think either to do job or
left it.
 Old and poor logistics for war.
 Lack of land and other infrastructures for survival of barracks
and camps.
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Lesson Learnt:
Strong field Fortification(sentry post, communication trench,
Bunker, low wire entanglement, concentrina wire, obstacle and
mining), regular stand to practice, high morale, good command
control, mutual coordination, proper and controlled use of
available arms and ammunitions, change of field fortification
time to time for deception, appropriate deployment of human
resources leads to get easy win over hostiles in the battle field.
CONCLUSION:
 Fought very strongly .
This glorious history of APF, Nepal must be documented in
the history museum of Armed Police Force so that it can be
the source of motivation and inspiration to the upcoming
generations also helps to correct the mistakes happened
during this incident.