Human Rights Commission's view that a judicial inquiry committee should be formed for the truth
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Was the act of immediately setting fire to Rajawadi's demonstration on Friday planned or accidental? Was the looting and vandalism planned or an act of chaos at someone's instigation? Who were the ones who beat whoever they met? Where did you come from? And where are they now?
This was discussed at the National Human Rights Commission on Sunday, where a dozen and a half members of four teams that monitored both the monarchist and Samajwadi Morcha demonstrations gave detailed analysis of what they saw. Some of them also said that they were beaten by the protestors during the monitoring and ran away from the scene to save their lives. "The assessment of the situation was different from what the security agencies did," Commissioner Lily Thapa, who led a team to Tinkunne on Friday, said, "There was a chaotic group demonstrating who did not even know what the Human Rights Commission was and who the human rights activists were. They were determined to beat whoever they found." In that process, human rights officer Khimanand Basyal's head was broken.
The observers conclude that the state should form an investigation committee to find out the truth about whether such a group came spontaneously or had been prepared for a long time under someone's leadership. "The commission is also investigating and researching this, we have come to the conclusion that we will soon prepare a report and recommend the government to form an active investigation committee," Commissioner Thapa said, "without doing so, it is impossible to know from where and how this level of division happened." Advocate Raju Chapagai, coordinator of
accountability monitoring group, said that it will not be enough to punish those directly involved in criminal incidents. "A large number of chaotic people took to the streets and set fire to and looted the property of the citizens, two people were killed and many were injured, a comprehensive investigation is inevitable." "If only the police investigate and prosecute through regular procedures, their weakness will not be addressed," he said, "on top of that, it is being said that this movement was instigated by Gyanend Shah, a judicial committee must be formed to determine whether it is true or not." "The police did not seem to have been able to assess the incident properly, so there was a huge loss of people's wealth," says former Balanand Sharma. The previous day, on Thursday, he had asked about the security plan for the demonstration. On the same day, people from the diplomatic mission in Nepal analyzed the possibility of violent protests and warned their citizens in writing not to go out of Kathmandu.
'Even though the foreign nationals had assessed that the demonstration by two groups with opposite faiths on the same day would lead to violent activities, it was a mistake for the police to take it as normal,' says Purorathi Sharma, 'on top of that, keeping a large number of protesters under surveillance all day makes the police tired and it becomes difficult to work. Maybe that's why, when there was a fire in the herbs and there was a robbery in Bhatbhateni, the police could not reach to control it.'
