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Japan Apologizes To Mainali For Keeping Him In Jail
By KTM Metro Reporter
November 9, 2012: after the Tokyo High Court declared Govinda Prasad Mainali sentenced to life imprisonment allegedly for the murder of a Japanese woman in 1997 innocent, Japanese Justice Minister Makoto Taki today apologized to Govinda Prasad Mainali for keeping him in jail for 15 years.
Apologizing to the innocent man for keeping such a long time in confinement is not enough for compensating the physical and mental sufferings Mr. Mainali had undergone, and the agonizing mental sufferings his family members in Nepal had undergone. So, the Japanese government needs to compensate Mr. Mainali and his family members paying an appropriate amount for the torment they had suffered during the 15-year imprisonment of Mr. Mainali.
The Japanese police have been so notorious for making anybody taken custody a criminal. They use any technique to force a suspect to confess the crime that s/he has not committed. They don’t use the modern DNA technique to prove or disprove a crime. Consequently, an innocent man such as Mr. Mainali had to spend 15 years in jail for no fault of his own. Fortunately, with his own persistence, and with the help of the international human rights activists, he could force the officials to hold DNA test of the semen left with the murdered woman, and proved his innocence.
National Human Rights Commission needs to write the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nepal asking the ministry officials to write to the Embassy of Japan in Nepal for an appropriate compensation to be paid to Mr. Mainali and his family members.
