Top leaders of Congress, UML and Maoists have promised to complete the transitional justice process soon. Prime Minister and UML President KP Sharma Oli, Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba and Maoist President Pushpa Kamal Dahal said on Thursday that they would bring justice to the victims and bring the peace process to a conclusion.
At the National Conference on Truth, Justice and Reparatory Rights of Nepal's Transitional Justice Process and Conflict Victims, Maoist Chairman Dahal said that although there are many disagreements on many issues between the three major parties, they always have the same opinion on transitional justice. "This original method of Nepal is an example worth learning for the world," he said. Although Samajwadi Morcha was busy preparing for the demonstration on Friday, Dahal mentioned that he was committed to this issue by coming to the event. Looking at Deuba and Oli, who were sitting together on the stage, he said, "Let us finish this peace process now". Dahal, who first spoke saying that it is in a hurry to go to the meeting of the
front, claimed that in the early stages of the peace process, they tried to 'dismiss' the incident during the conflict by using the principle of 'forgive and forget', but he did not accept it. "People are confused that the Maoists are talking about general amnesty, but that is not the truth. I am the one who signed that amnesty cannot be granted in cases of serious human rights violations. Truth must be established and reconciliation must be established," he said.
Stating that he took serious risks to bring the peace process to this point and was ready to go to the stage of division, Dahal also expressed his expectation of some international respect for the role he played in establishing peace in the country.
Congress president Deuba, who gave a brief speech after Dahal, said that they had recently agreed between the three leaders to finalize the transitional justice. "A recommendation committee has been formed according to the agreement," he said, "all parties agree to bring justice to the victims."
Prime Minister Oli said that he is determined to finalize transitional justice. "The government has recently formed a recommendation committee to end the peace process, now the process will proceed and the victims will get justice, for this I don't need any punishment or reward," he said, "I have been able to give justice to the victims."
Oli also said that in order to establish peace and justice in the country, he should apologize to the people for his past mistakes. He added, "The victims here have not received justice for years. Just because we listened to them, justice should not be given, justice should be given in practice."
Former Chief Justice Kalyan Shrestha said that when the transitional justice was entangled by the parties for decades, it brought unlimited suffering and harassment in the lives of the victims and said that the same trend should not be repeated. "We are proud of Nepal's peace process as an exemplary and indigenous model for the world, but there is no real basis for it," he said, "We cannot be proud of bringing only one law in two decades, because the law is the basic and primary element, the main thing is for the victims to get justice and the investigation of the truth." Former Chief Justice Shrestha said that suspicion has arisen. In the program, the victims of the conflict warned that they will not be tolerated if they continue to be confused under the pretext of the process.
