UCPN (Maoist) led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Mohan Baidya-led CPN-Maoist, Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN Maoist, Matrika Yadav led CPN (Maoist), Revolutionary Communist Party Nepal (RCPN) led by Mani Thapa and Pari Thapa led CPN Unified (Ekikrit) have also decided to submit a memorandum to the prime minister on Friday and stage joint rally across the country on April 6 against the SC verdict.A meeting of six former rebel parties held at UCPN (Maoist) party office in Koteshwar on Wednesday also urged the apex court to review its decision. A verdict of SC on February 26 has stated that cases that are sub-judice in courts cannot be transferred to any commission formed to look into conflict era cases. Several war-era cases against UCPN (Maoist) chief Dahal and other senior leaders and cadres of Maoist parties are sub-judice in various courts across the country.
"The verdict of the apex court goes against the spirit of transitional justice mechanisms. There is no point in establishing transitional justice mechanisms if courts are to deal with conflict-era cases," UCPN (Maoist) Vice Chairman Narayan Kaji Shrestha told Republica.
The apex court has also annulled two controversial provisions of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and Commission on Inquiry into Enforced Disappearances (CIED) Act that give discretionary powers to the transitional justice mechanisms to grant amnesty for war era crimes and to the Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction to prosecute human rights violators.
Maoist parties have been claiming that SC verdict intends to penalize the perpetrator rather than establish truth and reconcile the perpetrator of crimes and the victims. "This issue must be settled at the political level. This we are going to remind Prime Minister Sushil Koirala about the peace accord," said RCPN General Secretary Thapa.
The six-Maoist parties have also warned of stringent protests if the SC fails to review the verdict.
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