The office recommendation committee is interviewing the candidates even today
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The recommendation committee formed to recommend the office bearers of the Transitional Justice Commission continues to interview the candidates today. In spite of the opposition of victims and human rights activists in the selection process of the committee, the committee is continuing the process of recommending officials. The committee did not stop the process even though the victims warned that a parallel commission would be formed.
The government constituted a recommendation committee for the appointment of officials of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission of Inquiry into Disappeared Persons. The committee is interviewing the shortlisted candidates from Wednesday.
Interviews at the Ministry of Law at Singhdarbar are continuing today and the committee is scheduled to complete the interviews by Friday. After interviewing eight presidential candidates on the first day, the committee is now interviewing members.
According to the committee, only three people were sent to pick up and 12 more candidates will be interviewed today. Within a few days of the interview, the committee is preparing to recommend names for the officials of both commissions.
The Committee has prepared a short list of 34 people for the appointment of officials of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Investigation Commission of Disappeared Persons, which have been vacant for 34 months. Expressing dissatisfaction with the selection process of the recommendation committee, the victims and human rights workers have been demanding to stop the process immediately.
They have also warned of setting up a parallel commission without stopping the process immediately. On Wednesday, 9 associations of victims withdrew the names of 31 candidates recommended by them for appointment to the commission.
Similarly, on Tuesday, 10 human rights organizations issued a joint statement and made such a request. They also warned that if the official selection process is not suspended immediately, they will form a parallel truth commission.
Their allegation is that the recommendation committee prepared a short list by favoring party factions and proceeded with the recommendation process in a non-transparent manner with the intention of appointing pre-determined persons. Although the term of the committee formed to complete the work within two months will end on June 13, the committee is ready to make recommendations before then.
According to high sources involved in the recommendation process, it has been agreed between the top leaders that the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission will be the Congress candidate and the chairman of the Disappearance Commission will be the UML candidate.
According to the sources, it has been agreed that two members of Congress will be in the commission chaired by UML and two members of UML will be in the commission chaired by Congress and the rest will be one member of Maoist.
A group of victims and civil society representatives met Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, Nepali Congress Chairman Sher Bahadur Deuba and Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Monday and submitted a memorandum asking them not to participate in both commissions and to include victims' representatives as well.
