Activists decry amnesty provision in inter-party deal
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KATHMANDU, AUG 31 -
Human rights defenders have taken serious exception to the agreement between the UCPN (Maoist) and the Madhes-based parties to withdraw the pending court cases registered during different armed and peaceful struggles in the past and grant general amnesty to the accused.
Accountability Watch Committee, an alliance of rights defenders in Nepal, flayed the deal and demanded that the signatory parties scrap the particular provision where they agreed to withdraw pending court cases. The understanding to withdraw court cases, the committee said in a statement, is a direct violation of the rule of law and a breach of the international human rights treaties of which Nepal is a party.
The Maoists and Samyukta Loktantrik Madhesi Morcha had agreed in the deal, among other things, to "scrap or annul court cases brought during the Maoist insurgency, Madhes, Janajati, Tharuhat, Dalit and other movements launched for social justice."
"The provision to withdraw court cases has challenged the Interim Constitution," said the committee.
The activists expressed fear that the political agreement to grant amnesty to crimes committed during the past conflicts could jeopardise the whole process of delivering transitional justice, especially given the "intentional delay" in the formation of the TRC and the Commission on Enforced Disappearances.
Posted on: 2011-08-31 08:55
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