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Human Rights Violation Continues In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
March 13, 2010: the US Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in 2009 released by the Department of State in Washington, DC on Thursday, March 11, 2010 has stated that arbitrary arrests and detention, threats to media, extortion, and intimidation have continued in Nepal in 2009.
The report has said that the Maoists have returned some previously seized property following Comprehensive Peace Agreement but kept other illegally seized lands and properties seizing additional properties. Maoists and Maoist-affiliated organizations continued to extort money from businesses, workers, private citizens, and NGOs; and Maoists have violently intimated those people who refused or are not able to pay.
The fate of many people disappeared by the state during the 10-year Maoist insurgency (1996-2006) has remained uncertain, as the government has not responded to the OHCHR report on 49 disappeared persons arrested and detained at the Maharajgunj barracks in Kathmandu in 2003 on suspicion of being linked to the Maoists, and also has not responded to the OHCHR′s report on disappearances of 170 persons in the Bardiya district between 2001 and 2004.
