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Stopping Promotion Of Colonel Raju Basnet Involved In Serious Crime
By KTM Metro Reporter
July 27, 2012: the Society of the Family of Disappeared Citizens by the State has been seriously concerned with the Nepal Army’s bid to promote Colonel Raju Basnet that had been involve in the enforced disappearance of the political prisoners. Chairperson of the Society Yek Raj Bhandari said that the family members of those killed, disappeared and injured in course of the conflict had been hurt by the government's move to promote Colonel rather than bringing him to justice for the involvement in gross violation of human rights, writes ‘The Himalayan Times’. The High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) found Colonel Basnet guilty of serious human rights violation and recommended the government for taking actions against him.
Receiving a memorandum submitted by the Society for Fighters Disappeared by the State at the UCPN-Maoist Headquarters, Parisdanda, on Wednesday, July 25, 2012, Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai has said that the government is committed to searching the people disappeared by the state during the armed conflict period, and blamed the NC and CPN-UML for not being able to enact the law to launch search for the disabled, and has said that the government is serious about making public the whereabouts of the disappeared people, writes ‘The Himalayan Times’.
According to Secretary of the Society, Puja Khanal, the Society has submitted the memo to the Prime Minister stating the government has not made the whereabuts of the disappeared people even putting so much of pressure on the government; and warned the prime minister of conveying a wrong message to the people promoting the then Battalion Chief of Bhairabnath Battalion, Raju Basnet that had a role in making the enforced disappearance.
Prime Minister Dr. Bhattarai in turn said that the government would not promote those that made people to disappear, and the government would not let them go with impunity.
