KATHMANDU, OCT 25 – Human rights lawyers argued yesterday that a newly amended law in Nepal to curb crimes committed during years of civil war, may deprive victims of justice and grant amnesty to perpetrators.
Both government troops and former rebels have been accused of torture, murder, rape and detention during Nepal’s Maoist insurgency.
The conflict ended in 2006 with a peace deal that brought the rebels to join the government and promised justice for the victims, including more than 16,000 dead and about 1,000 more missing.
Nepal’s two transitional justice commissions began operating in 2015, but have failed to solve a single case, despite receiving more than 60,000 complaints of killings, torture and unexplained disappearances. – AFP
