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Chairman Prachanda For Not Giving A Blanket Amnesty
By KTM Metro Reporter
April 24, 2012: at the meeting with the families of the enforced disappearances at his residence in Lazimpat yesterday morning, Chairman of UCPN-Maoist Prachanda has said that the government and the UCPN-Maoist are committed to find the whereabouts of those enforced disappearances during the conflict period, ‘The Himalayan Times’ writes.
Prachanda also has pledged that his party is to provide the families of the victims of the enforced disappearance with relief, and the parliament is setting up Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Commission on Enforced Disappearances to probe into the wartime killings, torture and enforced disappearance and perpetrators of such crimes will be brought to justice following the law.
He also made it clear that amnesty will not be provided to anyone involved in such gross human rights abuses according to the nepalnews.com
Two international rights organizations such as International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday have shown their concerns for the agreement major political parties have reached to form a Truth and Reconciliation Commission with an objective to grant blanket amnesty to the perpetrators of human rights violence, ‘The Himalayan Times’ writes.
“Negotiations are under way among key Nepali political leaders to grant a broad amnesty in connection with creating transitional justice commissions to address abuses committed during the civil war. The proposed amnesty would extend to crimes under international laws, including war crimes,” International Commission of Jurists and Human Rights Watch said in a joint press statement, ‘The Himalayan Times’ writes.
