Upadhyaya wrote a three-page-long letter to Dr Bhattarai calling for scrapping of the recently signed four-point deal between the UCPN (Maoist) and the United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF) that says criminal cases associated with the conflict would be withdrawn. [break]
Chairman Upadhyaya said such withdrawal would go against the principles of human rights.
The letter says decision on such cases would be made by a truth commission and the government has no authority to take decision on such cases.
Dr Baburam Bhatarai led-government last Sunday reached a four-point deal with UDMF to scrap all the human rights violation cases that were registered during 10-year armed conflict, Madhesh movement and Tharuhat movement.
Earlier, international human rights groups including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and International Commission of Jurists had strongly protested the four-point agreement.
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