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Marking International Day of Disappearances
By KTM Metro Reporter
August 30, 2012: on the occasion of the International Day of Disappearances, the international community in Kathmandu has shown its concern for the whereabouts of the enforced disappearances during the conflict, and its concern for the government not being able to set up commissions on truth and reconciliation, and on inquire into disappearances following the Comprehensive Peace Agreement the Government of Nepal had reached with the then Maoists. Loved ones of the victims of the disappearances have been anguishing over the whereabouts of the disappeared people.
United Nations Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator Rober Piper said, “The adoption of the proposed ordinance currently with the President could severely undermine access to justice for victims, and potentially further institutionalize impunity, I urge that the establishment of transitional justice mechanisms is done in compliance with international human rights standards and best practices, as reiterated by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the National Human Rights Commission as well as Nepali and international human rights organizations.” He also said that establishment of a transitional justice mechanism empowered to provide amnesty for the perpetrators of serious human rights violations and war crimes is contrary to Nepal’s commitments to the international law, according to nepalnews.com.
Speaking at the event held to mark the International Day of Disappearances at its office in Lalitpur today, Chairman of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Kedar Nath Upadhyay said that the proposed commissions on disappeared and truth and reconciliation for enacting through the presidential ordinances were unacceptable to NHRC, as these commissions did not meet the international standard, according to the RSS.
In a press statement issued in Kathmandu yesterday, Chairman of the Terror Victim Orphaned Society Suman Adhikary said that the proposed bills on Truth and Reconciliation, and on Forced Disappearances to be enacted through the presidential ordinances would increase impunity, would not bring the perpetrators of violence to justice and would be against the universal principles of human rights. He urged the President not to enact the bills through the ordinances, according to thehimalayantimes.com
Following the recommendations of different political parties, the government has been working to withdraw some 70 criminal cases involving around 300 individuals stating the cases are of the political nature; the Ministry of Home Affairs is making preparations to forward the cases to the Ministry of Law, Justice, Constituent Assembly and Parliamentary Affairs to register the cases at the cabinet to withdraw them, according to myrepublica.com.
