The victim's family, frustrated by the state's failure to make the truth about the disappearance public, has been forced to cremate Kush's body and perform the last rites.
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Relatives are preparing Kush's body and performing the last rites as the state fails to make public the truth about the situation of those who disappeared during the armed conflict.
Even after a long time since the peace agreement, the state has not made the truth about the situation of the disappeared public and the family of the victim has been forced to cremate Kush's body.
Due to the uncertainty of the situation of the disappeared, there has been a legal problem of not being able to transfer and divide the property in their name. Similarly, the family members say that they are forced to cremate Kush's body and perform the last rites when they have to bear the social embarrassment that this is happening because the family members are not doing the funeral of the disappeared when they are sick.
Last Wednesday, the family of the missing Rajkumar Tharu of Rajapur Municipality-6 Bikrampur, after the situation has not been revealed for 23 years, cremated Kush's body and performed the funeral rites on Sunday. Hira Tharu, 50, of Rajapur Municipality-6 Bikrampur, said that she had to perform the funeral rites after she saw her husband being forcibly taken away by security personnel in a dream and asked him to show her the way to Tapra School. ‘When the state made her husband disappear at the age of 30, she faced a lot of problems in raising her three small children,’ she said, ‘I worked in other people’s homes to raise the children, but when I couldn’t find work here, I stayed in Nepalgunj and raised them as laborers. Even after the last rites are performed, it seems like my husband will come back.’
Sujan Tharu, the youngest son of Rajkumar, who is in favor of not performing his father’s last rites until the state provides the truth about the situation of the missing citizen, said ‘A few days ago, my brother fell ill, and we were forced to perform the last rites after the Guruwa (Jhakri) said that this happened because his father had not yet done his chores,’ he said.
On Kartik 3, 2059, the state made 14 people including Rajkumar of the then Manpur Tapra VDC-8 (Rajapur Municipality-6, Bikrampur) disappear overnight Among them, the family of Radheshyam Tharu from the same place has already cremated the body of Kush.
Relatives of the missing Tateram Tharu, Jaggu Tharu and Hariram Chaudhary from Sonpur village, Barbardiya Municipality-7, had cremated the body of Kush last Chaitra. 'After waiting for 22 years, we were forced to do nothing because the government did not provide any information about our husband's breath or body,' said 56-year-old Ramdulari Tharu from Sonpur, Barbardiya-7, 'We have grown old while waiting. Now, after losing hope for justice, I have decided to perform the last rites.' She said that on the night of 24th of Shrawan 2059, the then Royal Nepal Army entered the house and forcibly took away her husband Tateram.
Man Bahadur Chaudhary, program coordinator of the Conflict Victims' Struggle Committee, Bardiya, said that the victims are making Kush's body and burying it after the state failed to provide the truth for a long time. According to him, 50 families of those who disappeared during the armed conflict in the district have made Kush's body and bury it.
According to the old data of 258 people from Bardiya who disappeared during the conflict and the data of the Commission for the Investigation of Enforced Disappearances, 260 people, including 3 people added recently, have applied for disappearance. The government has already provided Rs 1 million as relief to most of the victim families, while some families have not yet received the amount.
