Report in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 5, 2023
As a parliamentary panel prepares to finalise a bill to amend the Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act, the insurgency victims, human rights activists and civil society members staged a sit-in in the Capital on Friday to pressure the committee to correct flawed provisions in the bill.
Carrying placards with various slogans, they demanded the sub-committee of the Law and Justice Committee of the House of Representatives make revisions to the bill to ensure a trustworthy and transparent process to give justice to the victim community. “We have gathered to warn our lawmakers to correct every provision that serves perpetrators,” Kalyan Budhathoki, acting chair of the Conflict Victims Common Platform, told the Post. “Several provisions in the bill are aimed at shielding the perpetrators.”
The victims and the rights defenders say, based on past experience, they have doubts that the bill gets revised to make the transitional justice process victim-centric. Despite making commitments during various consultations to address the victims’ concerns, the government in March registered the amendment bill in Parliament by retaining the several “problematic” provisions of the previous bill, which couldn’t get through the federal parliament.
https://kathmandupost.com/national/2023/08/05/conflict-victims-and-rights-activists-are-sceptical-about-government-s-intentions
