Aanchal Agarwal-
Published on: August 30, 2021, at 16:45 IST
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) today said that the Nepal Government should enforce its Supreme Court rulings and allow lower courts to try cases of grave Human Rights violation including cases of enforced disappearances.
Issuing a press statement on the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, today, the International Bodies said that the Nepali families whose loved ones went missing during the armed conflict which ended 15 years ago still have no idea about their whereabouts.
The Supreme Court of Nepal has directed the authorities numerous times to look into this matter as it is a very serious matter of Human Rights violation and also to conduct a meaningful, effective transitional justice process to find out the truth about their whereabouts and provide justice for thousands of cases of serious abuses.
The governmental Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP) was formed in 2015 as part of the justice process to inspect the civil war abuses.
In 2020, the CIEDP issued a list of 2,506 people who were allegedly forcibly disappeared, but the Committee has failed to find out about their whereabouts, and also nobody has been found who can be held accountable.
Many victims’ families have tried to seek justice through the legal system, but successive governments have blocked the proceedings.
The Nepal Government also established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act (TRC) which has received over 60,000 complaints of abuses from the armed conflict era but has failed to complete the investigation of a single case.
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