By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, Nov. 22: Thirteen years have passed since the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) signed between the then government and the CPN-Maoist to end the decade-long armed conflict, but the victims of the decade-long armed conflict are yet to get justice.
On the onset of the 13th anniversary of the CPA, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the rights watchdog, has drawn attention of the government to address the issues related to conflict victims.
The CPA was signed in 2006 to address the conflict-related cases that occurred during the armed conflict. During the decade long armed conflict, serious human rights violations cases like killing, torture, forceful disappearance, kidnapping, seizing of land and property of the citizens, internal displacement, sexual violence and forcefully involving children in armed conflict had occurred.
As per the agreement, two commissions needed to be formed within six months to find the truth about the conflict victims and to provide justice to them and punish the perpetrators.
Instead of the commitments made by the both parties-- government and the then rebellion, they have failed to address transitional justice, leaving the victims in the endless pain.
The NHRC stated that implementation of the agreement was still a far cry.
The NHRC would not support the activities which were against the sentiments of the conflict victims, it said.
Meantime, the government formed the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CEIDP) and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 2015, nine years after inking of the CPA.
Nation has promulgated the new Constitution, completed army integration, managed weapons and held two constituent assembly elections and general elections and formed three-tiers of government.
After the establishment CEIDP and TRC, both the commissions have claimed that they were collecting complaints of the victims.
The TRC, so far, has received 63,000 complaints and CEIDP received 3,200 complaints. However, the terms of the both commissions had ended without completing their task, it added.
Both the commissions are now without office-bearers.
The commission added that though a few conflict victims had already received compensation, the government has failed to bring the perpetrators of the serious human rights violations to book, which could not give an end to the impunity, the NHRC added.
The commission has asked the government to provide justice to all the victims of the conflict era.