Kathmandu, April 25

The Commission on Investigation of Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP) and Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CIEDP) have received nominal complaints from human rights victims of the decade-long Maoist insurgency.

The transitional justice mechanisms have been collecting complaints from victims since April 14. The TRC and CIEDP have so far received 1,573 and 460 complaints, respectively from victims all across the country.

Lack of awareness campaigns, inadequate publicity as well as doubtful system have resulted in the less number of complaints from conflict victims, sources said.

TRC and CIEDP officials conceded that they had received fewer complaints, but hoped that the number would increase gradually.

“Though many people took the complaint form, not all of them have submitted it. The number of complaints might go up if everyone who has taken the form submits it,” TRC Chairman Surya Kiran Gurung told The Himalayan Times.

According to him, the conflict victims have taken at least 2,988 forms.

CIEDP spokesperson Prof Bishnu Pathak said the CIEDP would accept the complaints even six months after the drive’s formal closure.

Both TRC and CIEDP will collect the complaints till mid-June while District Peace Committees are coordinating the complaint collection drive.

Pathak said CIEDP has planned to broadcast advertisements through local FM radios after mid-May.