Comrade Badal (Ram Bahadur Thapa), the grand architect of the People's War in Nepal, is in the Netherlands to attend a meeting of the Revolutionary International Movement (RIM) during which he is expected to garner support, both financial and political, for the Maoist movement. According to a source, Badal is attending this meeting and travelled to the Netherlands on an Indian passport. The meeting is being held in The Hague.

At the same time as Badal's Netherlands meeting, Nepali lawyers considered close to the Maoists, Mukti Pradhan, Gopal Shivakoti (Chintan) and Surendra Bhusal, were attending an international legal conference, also being held in The Hague. The president of the Nepal Bar Association, Harihar Dahal, known to be close to the prime minister, had recommended that the three lawyers should be sent to attend the conference.

After the American intelligence agency, the CIA, informed the home ministry that the above mentioned lawyers were going to attend the conference, the home ministry and secret agents of this country started keeping a careful watch in TIA from four in the afternoon of 4 December, by then the trio had already left for The Hague at noon the same day. Chintan has since returned after attending the conference but the whereabouts of Bhusal are still not known.

According to another source, there are more than 250 Nepalis who have taken political asylum in the Netherlands. They have given the ongoing Maoists problem as the reason for asylum. They get 3,500 Netherlands guilders per month from the Dutch government for their survival and many also work on the sly.