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‘Amend Army Act of 2006’ ICJ said
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) Secretary General Nicholas Howen in a letter to the Prime Minister of Nepal said on Monday, December 10 that over a dozen flaws in the Military Act of 2006 were needed to amend to make it compatible with the international human rights standards. "We therefore set out below our concerns about the compliance of provisions of the Army Act with international standards and the ICJ's further recommendations for amendments or for other actions and interpretations to ensure the Military Act is applied in a way that helps protect the human rights of people of Nepal," ICJ Secretary General Nicholas Howen wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala. "Reform of the Military Act should go hand in hand with addressing the system of accountability within the army itself. Serious human rights violations should not go unpunished but be addressed by the civilian courts," ICJ Secretary further said in the letter to the Prime Minister according to the Kantipur Report posted on Ekantipur.com on December 10, 2007.
