Establishing a facilitation mechanism to conclude the TRC

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, UML President KP Sharma Oli and Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba reached an agreement in principle about the formation of the mechanism last Thursday. According to the agreement, the names of the people who will be in the facilitation mechanism have been finalized on Sunday.

'There was talk of making a mechanism for facilitation between the three parties a few days ago . It was formed accordingly. It will facilitate the unraveling of the knotty issues related to the TRC," UML Chief Whip Bertaula said to Ekantipur . He said that the issues related to this will be narrowed down and a consensus will be reached.

The TRC bill, which was tried to be advanced at the same time as the alliance with the Congress, was stopped due to the disagreement of the UML. Even though the alliance with the UML formed after the alliance led by the Congress last February, the bill related to the TRC is stuck in the parliament. Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the Prime Minister of both alliances, said that finishing the rest of the peace process is his top priority, but it has not progressed.

After the collaboration between UML and Maoists started, UML appeared to be flexible in TRC, but because of Congress' lack of interest, it was stuck in the parliament. Leaders including Prime Minister Dahal, Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba and UML President KP Sharma Oli tried to find a consensus on the TRC at the Prime Minister's Residence Baluwatar on Thursday. In that meeting, there was talk of making a mechanism.

The UML stopped the Congress-Maoist coalition government from trying to advance the TAR Bill by keeping the victims at the center. But after the power equation was formed in the third week of February, the UML is ready to advance the TRC bill.

After the new equation was formed, the five political parties promised to enact the TRC-related law as a "minimum policy priority and common resolution". It is stated in the common resolution that the government will present to the parliament, 'to make immediate legal arrangements to complete the rest of the peace process, to establish the truth based on the facts with the victims at the center,' and to address the pain caused by the conflict through justice, compensation, reparation, forgiveness and reconciliation on the basis of the truth.

Even when Dahal became the Prime Minister for the first time in 2065, the priority was to complete the peace process. At that time, chief seven and assistant 21 Maoist fighters who were in the temporary camp were given priority to accommodate and give a respectful farewell. In Chait 2068, when the then Maoist Vice President Baburam Bhattarai was the Prime Minister, 1,400 out of 19,600 fighters were recruited into the Nepali Army, while other fighters left voluntarily with Rs 5 to 10 lakh.

But the remaining tasks of the peace process include finding the truth and giving justice to the victims, punishing those who violate serious human rights, and investigating missing citizens. After 2075, 12 governments prioritized ending the peace process, but it is incomplete due to the political interests of major parties.