"When a member of a family is disappeared, that family is completely
destroyed. If the sons or daughters of our politicians were taken like
my brother was, perhaps then they would understand our experience and
feelings and be willing to do something about it." Rajeev Kumar Karna,
brother of Sanjeev Kumar Karna.
Purnimaya Lama never abandoned her
quest for justice. Her husband Arjun was taken by Maoist cadres in 2005.
Witnesses say they held him for two months before he was killed.
Yet
again Nepal's political leaders are stalling on commitments to
prosecute and punish those among them responsible for human rights
abuses during the conflict. As they haggle to save their own skins, the
voices of victims and their families demanding justice continue to be
ignored.
Lawmakers want to replace bills creating a Truth and
Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and a Commission on Disappearances with a
new draft that lacks clauses prohibiting amnesty for serious abuses of
international human rights and humanitarian law carried out during the
armed conflict. The NC, UML and Maoists have apparently agreed to reduce
the commissions' mandate to truth-telling and reconciliation, making it
unlikely that anyone would be tried and punished for these horrendous
crimes. After a long hard struggle, economic hardship and intimidation,
the proposed changes could deny justice to thousands of victims and
their families.
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