Amid prolonged delays in constituting a committee to nominate bearers for the transitional justice commissions, the CPN (Maoist Centre) has called for immediate action to this effect.
Addressing the House of Representatives, CPN (Maoist Centre) Chief Whip Hit Raj Pandey said his party demands appointment of the chairpersons and members in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons.
“The commissions are vacant months after the act [the Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act] was amended,” he said. “Forming the commission is a must to heal the pain of the victims.”
After long negotiations among the major parties, the federal parliament amended the act in August 2024, more than nine years after the Supreme Court turned down numbers of amnesty provisions in it.
Those closely following the process believe that, as a politico-legal matter, the transitional justice process cannot advance without broad agreement among the three major parties. Of late, the growing acrimony between the CPN-UML and the Maoist Centre has hindered the tripartite dialogue, delaying progress.
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