Four international human rights organisations - International Commission of Jurists, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and TRIAL International - on January 25 warned that conflict victims could seek justice in foreign courts, reports Kathmandu Post. They said that recent decisions by the Nepali Government and political parties to appoint officials to the transtional justice commissions without proper consultations and to nominate a murder accused as House Speaker undermined the transitional justice process.
Meanwhile, unconvinced by the Government’s approach to the transitional justice process, conflict victims have threatened to invite the international community including the United Nations to intervene in the ‘botched’ justice process, reports Republica on January 27. Bhagiram Chaudhary, the president of the Conflict Victims’ Common Platform (CVCP), an umbrella organization of conflict victims, said “By ignoring our plea to revise the TJ law before appointing commissioners in the two commissions, the government has repeated the same old mistake. So, we will continue our protest against the botched TJ process. We will ask the United Nations and other countries that are committed to human rights to intervene in the TJ process if the government continues to undermine our voices.”