HRW calls for speedy justice to Nepal's conflict-era victims
Human Rights Watch (HRW) yesterday called upon the Nepal Government to honour its promises on providing justice to conflict-era victims, ending impunity and delivering a new Constitution.
“It is deeply disappointing that Nepal remains stuck in the same place it has been for years in spite of the grand promises made after the end of the civil war,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
The Nepal government made virtually no discernable progress in any of these areas, the rights body said in its World Report 2015 released on Thursday.
The report reminded the government of its promise on forming the Commission on Investigation of Disappeared Persons, and Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to investigate serious rights violations and abuses committed during Nepal's decade-long civil war from 1996 to 2006, by the end of 2014. The commissions are yet to be formed.
The New York-based HRW also urged the Nepal Government to stop its “crackdown on minorities”. Urging an end to the crackdown against the Tibetan community in Nepal, it called on the government to allow the Tibetan community the rights to free expression and assembly.
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