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Demanding Endorsement Of Bill On Enforced Disappearance
By KTM Metro Reporter
March 24, 2012: Society of Families of Fighters made to Disappear by the State (SFFDS) Friday staged hour-long sit-in at the CPN-UML headquarters demanding the immediate endorsement of Bills on Enforced Disappearance and formation of Commission on Investigation into Disappearance, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today writes.
"We express our party’s solidarity with this campaign and assure you all that we will continue raising issues for the justice to the families of those disappeared people whose whereabouts are yet to be established," Secretary to CPN-UML Yubaraj Gyawali said addressing the sit-in, ‘The Rising Nepal’ writes.
Yogesh Bhattarai, CPN-UML central committee member said that the peace process would not be over only by integrating the PLA into the Nepal Army without resolving the problem of human rights violation. "Issues related to human rights violations and mechanisms to investigate them such as the commissions on disappearance and truth and reconciliation commissions are also vital."
Recalling his friendship with some of the student leaders made enforced disappearance by the state security forces during the armed insurgency, CPN-UML central committee member Yogesh Bhattarai pointed out the need for an all-party panel to pass the Bills in the parliament.
Chairman of SFFDS Ekraj Bhandari warned of picketing at the central secretariat, Singha Durbar, and at the parliament if the government and the parties would continue to give only the lip service to the demands of the SFFDS for passing the Bills but delay in passing the Bills pending in the parliament and subsequent formation of the commissions.
On Wednesday and Thursday, the SFFDS had staged hourly sit-in at the headquarters of UCPN-Maoist and Nepali Congress respectively.
Whereabouts of around 1,300 people made enforced disappearance during the decade long armed conflict have not known even after nearly six years of the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) on Nov 21, 2006, ‘The Rising Nepal’ of today writes.
