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Nepal law could allow war crime amnesty: Lawyers

Both government forces and former rebels are accused of carrying out torture, killings, rapes and forced disappearances during Nepal's Maoist insurgency.
By Samiksha Shrestha

  • Both government forces and former rebels are accused of carrying out torture, killings, rapes and forced disappearances during Nepal's Maoist insurgency.

  • The conflict ended in 2006 with a peace deal that brought the rebels into government and promised justice for the victims, which included more than 16,000 dead and around 1,000 missing.

  • Nepal's two transitional justice commissions began operating in 2015, but failed to resolve a single case, despite receiving over 60,000 complaints of murders, torture and unexplained disappearances.


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