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AISC Completes Its Mission
By KTM Metro Reporter
April 13, 2013: the last meeting of the Army Integration Special Committee (AISC) held on Friday, April 12, 2013 after five years of its setup pursuant to Article 146 of the Interim Constitution of Nepal of 2007 to integrate the two armies: Maoist Army and Nepal Army. Following the 12-point agreement reached between the Maoists and the Seven Party Alliance, the army integration was to complete within six years but it took five years due to different political reasons, according to the news in ‘gorkhapatra’ of today.
Two members from each of the four political parties sat on the AISC, and the prime minister presided over the meeting. The AISC had certified the eligible Maoist combatants to join the Nepal Army at various level. The not-eligible combatants received compensation of ranging from Rs 500,000 to Rs 800,000 depending on their positions in the Maoist Army. Those eligible combatants have been getting trainings at various Nepal Army training centers.
The Ministry of Peace and Rehabilitation had spent more than Rs 19 billions on the management of different camps of Maoist combatants, and on the peace process. The last meeting of the AISC decided to recommend the government to hold an auditing of the expenditures made by the Ministry of Peace and Rehabilitation.
Some Nepalese newspapers including the state-run ‘The Rising Nepal’ have carried the news: ‘Peace Process has been completed.” The peace process has not completed only the army integration has been completed and the AISC would cease to exist. Other components of the peace process such as setup of Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Commission on Whereabouts of Enforced Disappearances, and making the Nepal Army inclusive have remained. To complete the peace process, the perpetrators of violence against human rights should be brought to justice, and the victims should be compensated. Families of the enforced disappearances should know whereabouts of their loved ones to complete the peace process.
