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Coalition partners drop Gaur massacre probe plan to avoid antagonising Upendra Yadav

by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 15, 2023The ruling coalition partners have concluded that there is no need to further investigate the Gaur Massacre, where as many as 27 members of the then CPN (Maoist) were brutally killed and 115 were injured. A meeting of the leaders of the ruling parties convened by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Monday drew the conclusion a week after the government signed an agreement with…

Government ignoring Human Rights Commission’s recommendations to investigate the Gaur massacre:

By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, June 09, 2023The government has ignored the National Human Rights Commission’s recommendation to investigate Janata Samajbadi Party chair Upendra Yadav among 129 others in connection with the 2007 Gaur massacre. The constitutional human rights watchdog on January 7 had asked government agencies through the Prime Minister’s Office to probe the heinous crime and take action against Yadav and others, if found guilty. The commission also demanded the progress…