Biratnagar, August 31:

The regional office of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in Biratnagar today said that 123 persons were disappeared by the state and the Maoists during the decade-long conflict in the eastern region. The office made public the data at a press conference here.

According to the data, the state disappeared 62 persons, while Maoists were responsible for the disappearance of 61 others. Chief of the NHRC’s Biratnagar office Subarna Karmacharya said that the report was based on complaints filed in the office by relatives of the missing persons. In the press conference, the Biratnagar chapter of Advocacy Forum Nepal (AFN) made public complaints of 35 persons registered in its office. Of the 35 persons who went missing, six were killed, the whereabouts of six were made public, while the whereabouts of 23 persons disappeared by the state and the Maoists are still unknown, the AFN said.