KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 21
Chairperson of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Centre Pushpa Kamal Dahal today said there was still a long way to go before victims of the decade-long insurgency were compensated and reconciliation effected between the perpetrators and victims through investigation based on the principles of transitional justice.
Issuing a press statement to mark the 15th year of signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between the then government and Maoist rebels, he claimed that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission of Enforced Disappeared Persons had been working to create a conducive environment for reconciliation by conducting fact-finding investigation into war-era era cases. He said justice was elusive for victims and national and international bodies were calling on the government to provide justice to them.
"Other constitutional bodies such as the National Human Rights Commission, National Women Commission, National Dalit Commission and Indigenous Nationalities Commission are also working from their respective places for upholding human rights and peace," Dahal said. "Despite the fact that the historical task of transforming the war into peace is over, thorough investigation into incidents reported during conflict for ensuring reconciliation still await," he added.
Dahal also said his party was committed to inquiring into its weaknesses and disclosing a report on why the peace process was not taken to its logical end. "This issue does not rest on the government.
It is an issue accepted by the all political parties in government or in opposition over a period of 15 years. We are committed to completing the remaining tasks of the peace process," he claimed.
A version of this article appears in the print on November 22, 2021, of The Himalayan Times.
