KATHMANDU: INSEC has appreciated the Supreme Court’s panel decision to deny changing the pronouncement of not forgiving severe crimes committed during the conflict period.
In a press statement released by the Chairperson of INSEC, Dr. Indira Shrestha, she welcomed the verdict.
The apex court had denied reconsidering the petition on April 26.
In this context, INSEC has reminded how consistently they have been expressing their opinion on not pardoning the issues that happened during the armed conflict- mentioned in the release.
It is unfair to forcibly reconcile the issues of conflict hurting self-respect of the victims and the ones guilty of severe human rights violations cannot simply be forgiven, it said in a statement.
The verdict was given on February 26, 2015, by the jury of Kalyan Shrestha, Baidhya Nath Upadhyay and Cholendra Sumsher JBR assuring action against human rights violators.
The petition was made on July 27, 2015, during the government led by Sushil Koirala which mentioned reconsideration of the verdict and conversion of the pronouncement.
It is considered a milestone for Transitional Justice and while the government attempted to convert this, it was repudiated by the panel of Justice Dipak Kumar Karki, Mira Khadka, Bishwambar Prasad Shrestha, Ishwar Prasad Khatiwada and Dr. Anand Mohan Bhattarai.
The stance is based on Nepal’s international commitment related to human rights, the Supreme Court’s pronouncement, and detailed peace agreement provisions that agrees on not forgiving any kind of severe human rights violation- mentioned in the statement.
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