Kathmandu, Nov 17 

Meeting of the committee formed to recommend names of officer-bearers for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons has decided to make public the recommended names tomorrow.

According to the committee’s member Sharmila Karki, the meeting will make public the names of persons recommended to be the office-bearers of the TRC and CIEDP.

They will be given a period of five days in case anyone files complaint against them, which, she said, would help make final recommendation. Karki said the committee has received applicants from those who already served in these committees while some are new. The committee had also received the candidates’ names recommended by various organisations. The incumbent government had formed the recommendation committee in the coordination of former chief justice Om Prakash Mishra last April to recommend candidates for the transitional justice

bodies.

The forum of the conflict-victims, Sajha Chautari, has released a press statement and decried the delay on the part of the government in delivering transitional justice through these commissions. The forum has expressed concern that political parties’ agreement has challenged the transparency and fairness in selection process to fill the posts at the commissions.