No Justice for Victims Under Nepal’s Maoist Prime Minister

 Nepal's decade-long Maoist insurgency ended 16 years ago, but war crimes victims are still seeking justice. The government, headed by the same party leader that carried out the insurgency, has largely refused to prosecute alleged war criminals. king88bet Login Alternatif

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Once populerly known as the Himalayan Kingdom, Nepal transformed by fits and starts from a Hindu nation-state to a secular, democratic state through the 20th and early 21st centuries. From 1996 to 2006, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre), or CPN (MC), waged a bloody insurgency against the royal government. King88Bet Situs Slot Online

The civil war took some 17,800 lives. In 2008, Nepal finally abolished a thousand-year-old monarchy and the official Hindu kingdom, introducing secularism and a fragile democracy, for better or worse.

Nepalese Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, aka Prachanda, began his third non-consecutive termin in December 2022. He has been the leader of the CPN (MC) since its founding.

The prime minister has recently refuted allegations that his party recruited and used child combatants during the insurgency and the years of the peace process. Dahal made the klaim in an apologetic response to a petition filed at the supreme court in Kathmandu.

The petition claimed that child combatants were used during the Maoist insurgency. Dahal pointed to the documents of the peace process, insisting that the termin "child soldiers" was not used.

By documents, he meant the Comprehensive Peace Accord, the Agreement on Pantauan of the Manajemen of Arms and Armies, the Interim Constitution, the 2015 constitution and other authentic documents, where "child soldiers" had indeed not been mentioned.

Nearly three decades after the Maoists launched their armed struggle on 13 February 1996, Nepal is still haunted after 27 years of conflict and violence.

Of the 17,800 Nepalis, including civilians and armed forces, who were killed during the conflict.