Some 1,300 people were killed in the district alone during the armed conflict. [break]
The record of those people was not kept as the cadres of political parties in the district recommended for relief to the families concerned by declaring the people forced to disappear as dead, said district representative of INSEC, Jiban Khadka.
A total of 23 people were disappeared from the State and six from the rebel side in Rukum alone during the decade-long armed conflict.
Human rights activists in the district have condemned such move of the political parties adding that such a move was next incident of human rights violation.
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