Nepal agrees compensation for families of war dead
Nepal will give the families of the 13,000 people killed in the country's decade-long civil war more than 1,500 dollars each in compensation, an official said Wednesday.
"The government has decided to give one hundred thousand rupees to each family of those killed, irrespective of whether they were killed by the state or by the Maoists," Shyam Sundar Sharma, spokesman at Nepal's ministry of peace and reconstruction, told AFP.
According to the Informal Sector Service Centre, a leading human rights agency in Nepal, security forces killed around 8,300 people and the insurgent Maoists around 5,000 in the war that ended with a 2006 peace deal.
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