But, the victims' fate and whereabouts is still unknown and unaccounted for even after the long period of the signing of the comprehensive peace accord (CPA).
The relatives of enforced disappeared persons are still hoping to get in touch with their loves ones but no headway in the mission adds to agonies to the victims' families.
Lawmaker Rupa Maharjan, whose husband Suchindra Maharajan was disappeared from the security forces during the insurgency, said she was hopeful that the recently-formed Commission of Enquiry on Enforced Disappearances would find out the truth about those enforced persons. She, however, was doubtful about the action to the convicts.
Likewise, Chairman of Society of Families of Enforced Disappeared, Nepal, Yekraj Bhandari also shared the same story saying that it was a sorry state of affairs. "The condition of families of those enforced disappearances is pathetic. The state should protect their family members. It should ensure employment, education and health care," Bhandari added.
According to the National Human Rights Commission, a total of 842 people were disappeared from the state side while 152 from the then rebel Maoist party. However, the statistics of the Society claims that altogether 1,095 people were subject to enforced disappeared from the security forces.
Commission of Inquiry into Enforced Disappearances has been formed but it has not started the job so far.
Secretary at the Commission Mahesh Sharma Poudel said that works relating to arrangement of infrastructure, preparations of code of conduct and fulfillment of the human resources were completed so far. "But, the Commission is not working as expected due to earthquake," he admitted.
The conflict in Nepal claimed the lives of more than 13,200 people and displaced over 100,000. During this decade-long civil war, serious human rights violations were carried out both by state security forces and Maoist rebels.
Meanwhile, on the same occasion, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has also urged all member states to ratify or accede to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance without delay, and has called on the states parties to the Convention to implement it saying that it was the time for an end to all enforced disappearances. RSS
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