When prosecuting wartime abuses, formal legal provisions matter less than politics. As long as those who committed the crimes remain in power, it is fiendishly difficult for victims to obtain justice, or even a hint of the truth
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskMore than 17,000 people were killed, 1,300 were “disappeared”—kidnapped and probably killed—and tens of thousands were displaced during the war, which pitted Maoist insurgents against the government of what was then still a constitutional monarchy.
In 2014, after years of dilly-dallying, the government set up two commissions—one to investigate disappearances and the other to examine other human-rights violations—as part-fulfilment of conditions laid down in the peace agreement. The commissions received a combined total of more than 60,000 complaints and have had their mandate extended several times, most recently in July. Yet neither one has ever held a single hearing or referred a case to the courts.
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