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Commemorating Death Of Maina Sunuwar On February 17
By KTM Metro Reporter
February 20, 2011: it has been seven years since the Nepal Army killed Maina Sunuwar for being the witness of the army men raping innocent women in 2004. She was only 15-year old at that time. She was at the 10th grade. Fearing that she will report the heinous crime of raping innocent women, the army men took her from the school to the army peacekeeping training centre in Kavre, mercilessly raped her to death and buried her on the premises of the training center.
Human rights activists have commemorated the death of Maina Sunurwar on Thursday, February 17, 2011 demanding the government turn over major Niranjan Basnet indicated for killing Maina to the Kavre District Court and bring other three-army men such as Babi Khatri, Sunil Prasad Adhikari, and Amit Pun to justice for their involvement in the killing of Maina.
The UN Peace Mission had returned Major Nirajan Basnet to the Government of Nepal for turning him over to the Kavre District Court but the then Defense Minister Vidhya Bhandari and Prime Minister Madhav Nepal gave a cover to Major Basnet rather than turning him over to the Kavre District Court for his trial.
Commemorating the death of Maina Sunuwar on Thursday, February 17, 2011, Advocacy Forum, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and International Commission of Jurists have repeated their call for turning over Major Basnet to the Kavre District Court and to bring other four army men implicated in the killing of Maina to justice. The new Government of Nepal led by Jhalanath Khanal has not responded to the call of the international community of human rights, yet.
