KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 6

The government has decided to provide economic relief of Rs 1 million per person to the 93 nearest of kin of those people identified as disappeared during the decade-long armed conflict.

The Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons will provide the relief amount identifying the persons disappeared during the armed conflict that lasted from 13 February 1996 to 21 November 2006.

CIEDP Chair Yubaraj Subedi said the Council of Ministers had decided to implement the Commission's recommendation in this regard. The victim families will get the amount through the District Administration Office concerned.

Earlier, the CIEDP had recommended this to the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.

The ministry had taken the decision to implement the recommendation made by the Commission on 22 November 2021. However, the letter in this regard officially reached the Commission just today.

The government had decided to provide economic assistance of Rs 93 million at the rate of one million per family of the 93 persons identified as disappeared for implementing the CIEDP's decision.

Of the 3,243 complaints filed with the CIEDP, 237 complaints were forwarded to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as they were related to it.

Likewise, 289 complaints have been put on hold as no basis was seen to prove that these people had been disappeared in course of the armed conflict.

The CIEDP is carrying out extensive investigation on 2,496 complaints. Based on the complaints, the CIEDP statistics show that 2,513 persons have been disappeared. The Commission has distributed identity cards to 1,500 people of 500 affected families.

'We have written to provide Rs one million to members of the 93 families of the disappeared persons who had missed out the relief assistance before. The victims will promptly get the amount. We are preparing to write to the government for relief assistance to the families of the disappeared persons who have been missed out,' CIEDP Chair Subedi said.