As the terms of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons expire on October 17, it is unclear what will happen of the transitional justice process in Nepal.
“We had hoped that the Act would be revised by Parliament after incorporating our concerns. But that didn’t happen,” Janak Raut, a victim of torture at the hands of the [then Royal] Nepal Army and the former general secretary of the Conflict Victims’ Common Platform, told the Post. “The victims want the continuation of the commissions where their complaints have been registered. They need to remain alive even for the safekeeping of our complaints.”
The truth commission has received 63,718 complaints, while the disappearance commission has 3,223 complaints in its database.
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