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Whereabouts Of Enforced Disappeared People
By KTM Metro Reporter
June 15, 2010: Speaking at an interaction program held by Society of Families of Fighters Disappeared by the State (SFFDS) on Monday, June 14, 2010, Maoist chairman Prachanda, NC vice-president Ram Chandra Paudel and CPN-UML general secretary Ishwor Pokharel have agreed on the need for making public the whereabouts of the enforced disappeared people during the 10-year conflict. The Nepal Army and the Nepal Police have been responsible for enforced disappearance of a large number of people.
"Everybody knows which state wing was involved in making the people disappeared. As the PM, I took some steps to make it more disciplined and serious so that it helped the processes for establishing the status of the disappeared. But those parties which were in the government and had played non-cooperation with regard to formulating and introducing bill on disappearance went against my major step to further discipline the wing," Prachanda said hinting his governments’ action against the then army chief Rukmangud Katuwal according to the state-run newspaper ‘The Rising Nepal’ of June 15, 2010.
According to the state-run newspaper ‘The Rising Nepal’ Chairman Prachanda has said that the state had already started violence and that the people would soon resist it strongly. "After 1990 Movement, we participated in the parliament hoping there would be some change, we got disappointed and put forth our demand. The state responded us with violence. Then in 1996, we went to people for resistance the state violence. It has four years now that we are in peace process hoping that we can better the fate of the people. But hundreds of our cadres have been murdered and not a single culprit brought to book. If this continues, the people will go for powerful resistance."
Speaking at the same program, spokesperson for National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Gauri Pradhan and Chief of UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal (UNOHCHR) Richard Bennett have urged the leaders to keep their commitments to make public the whereabouts of the enforced disappeared people, as nothing has happened to disclose the whereabouts of the enforced disappeared people even after four years of the peace process.
