The victims of the conflict have expressed the problems they are facing and demanded compensation. They complained that the local level did not prioritize their problems.
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The wait for husband is not over for Kamali Tharuka of Kohalpur Municipality-15. Her husband was picked up by the state side while he was sleeping at night. The husband who went missing on 4 Baisakh, 2059 has not yet returned home. However, Kamali has not given up hope yet.
"When he was sleeping at night, the army subjected him to extreme torture and took him away by beating him. However, why it was taken, where it was taken, and the reason for which crime it was taken, was never known . I still hope that my husband will come back, she said.
It has been 24 years since the husband of Sita KC of Chhagrahwa, Duduwa rural municipality-5 of Banke went missing. Her husband, who was walking from home to Nepalgunj market, was disappeared from the road by the people of the then rebel side.
He was taken away three months before his disappearance. But, he came back. The next time he was taken, he was not allowed to return. What would be the account of grief after the disappearance of her husband who went to earn money?' Sita said, 'Decades have passed since the disappearance of her husband, we are still waiting for a body or breath.'
On the occasion of the International Day against Enforced Disappearances, in a discussion organized by the concerned organizations including the Advocacy Forum in Nepalgunj, the conflict victims expressed their problems and demanded compensation. They said that their problems were not even prioritized by the local level. The participants said this during the discussion on the latest situation of transitional justice and the justice of the victims.
The victim has alleged that the two commissions regarding transitional justice, which have been vacant since 2079, have been appointed by the government, but both commissions have disappeared. Facilitating the
program, Lumbini Province Coordinator of Advocacy Forum, Advocate Vasant Gautam said that since the victims have the right to get truth, justice and compensation, it is the responsibility of the state to ensure it.
Chandrakala Upreti, the Central Secretary of the National Network of Conflict Victims, demanded the government to arrange the excavation of truth, justice and compensation. "The children of the victims of the conflict should be given free education. No one should die without medical care . Get life insurance and health insurance. Have a roof that overflows . Let there be an arrangement for employment,' she said, ``Let the conflict victims feel that the state has given them. Let them live a dignified life.''
After hearing the conflict victims, Adesh Kumar Agarwal, Minister of Internal Affairs and Law of Lumbini Province, said that the ministry is going to arrange free treatment up to five lakh rupees so that no victim is deprived of treatment.
In the program chaired by Usha Dahal, president of National Network of Conflict Victims Banke, District Coordination Committee Banke Deputy Head Sita Karki, Senior Advocate Sunil Shrestha, Advocate Suresh Gautam, INSEC Lumbini Provincial Coordinator Bhola Mahat, Acting Head of National Human Rights Commission Nepalgunj Office Dayaram Pathak, rights activist Prabhatsingh Thakuri, Red Cross activist Niranjana Malla and others expressed their solidarity in the demand for justice and compensation for the conflict victims. were .
