The five students were disappeared in October 2003. The apex court on February 2 ordered the Nepal Police to register First Information Reports (FIRs) and proceed with investigations into the disappearances.
A statement issued by OHCHR-Nepal Thursday said Nepal Police had previously refused to register FIRs in the cases in which senior civil, police and military officials have been named and details mentioned on a possible burial site identified more than two years ago.
Nepal Police has yet to request forensic assistance for carrying out exhumations at the site, the statement added. Both OHCHR and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) have been following the cases closely.
The statement said the Supreme Court has issued several important decisions relating to human rights investigations. “However, most of the court’s decisions have yet to be implemented and no perpetrators have been brought to justice,” it said.
Deputy representative of OHCHR-Nepal Jyoti Sanghera said recent decisions taken by the Supreme Court have highlighted the urgent need to address the lack of accountability and end the culture of impunity in Nepal.
“OHCHR encourages the government to act on its commitment to end impunity by taking immediate steps to implement this and other Supreme Court decisions, so as to ensure that the perpetrators of the Dhanusha disappearances, as well as other serious conflict-related human rights violations, are brought to justice,” Sanghera said in the statement.
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