PM Oli commits to strengthening transitional justice commissions for effective resolution
March 27, Kathmandu: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has expressed the government’s commitment to providing all necessary support to ensure the success of the two commissions related to transitional justice in Nepal.
Addressing a national conference on transitional justice organized by the Accountability Monitoring Committee and organizations representing conflict victims on Thursday, he emphasized the need to review why the previous efforts of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP) were unsuccessful and to work collectively to make future efforts effective.
He assured that the government remained proactive in delivering justice and reparations to victims, reiterating that unnecessary and unjust violence from the past would not be repeated.
He recalled that the transitional justice-related laws had been passed by Parliament with consensus to conclude the peace process.
Following the enactment of laws related to the TRC and CIEDP, he noted that a previous recommendation committee, formed to appoint officials to these commissions, had expired without reaching an agreement. Subsequently, the government, after consultations with major political parties, had established another recommendation committee.
The PM highlighted that all Nepali people wished to move beyond the wounds of the conflict and that the path of violence had been abandoned. He stressed the importance of ensuring justice for victims and expressed concern that the peace process, unresolved for 18 years, had caused embarrassment on the international stage, urging serious efforts to complete it.
He also affirmed that those responsible for serious human rights violations would face action. Additionally, he suggested that there was no need to celebrate the People’s War as a festival or declare public holidays for it, as such actions could further hurt victims.
The program, attended by Nepali Congress President and former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, as well as CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman and former Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda,’ saw PM Oli underline the need for continued support and cooperation from the international community to resolve transitional justice issues. He added that Nepal was striving to address this process in an original and context-specific manner.
He requested that unrelated matters, such as the removal of employees from any government body, not be linked to the work of transitional justice, as they were not comparable. He also clarified that, with the establishment of a federal democratic republic through the people’s struggle, the country could not revert to its past.
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