Charan Prasai

Don’t blame bichara (helpless) former Chief Justice Om Prakash Mishra. It is us (three leaders—Sher Bahadur Deuba, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, and himself)—who decide the commissioners’ selection, and he added to wait and see for two months. If they become dysfunctional, they can be...

Amidst the hostility and outrage of the conflict victims, the government of Nepal forcefully appointed ten office bearers of the TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) and CIEDP (Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappeared Persons) on 14th May 2025, positions that had remained vacant for three...

The use of internet services and social media accounts is inevitable for individuals in a democratic world.

The passing of the third amendment bill to ‘The Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act 2014’on August 29, 2024, by the parliament, irrespective of prevailing gaps and ambiguities, is a milestone in moving the process ahead.

The foundation of the peace accord was built on the 12-point understanding reached between the then seven political parties, which were cornered during the royal takeover, and the then Maoist insurgent, in New Delhi, India on Nov 22, 2005.

The reduced sentencing claim contradicts the principles that criminal sanctions must be proportionate to the gravity of the crimes.

“Visiting Canada Senate speaker not scheduled to meet Agni Sapkota,” went the newspaper headline a few days back. This front-page news regarding Canadian Senate Speaker George J Fury who was in Kathmandu recently carried a significant message.

As justice has been endlessly deferred, the conflict victims will be left with no option but to seek justice outside of the country

Transitional justice process has not come to a meaningful end because conflict victims were not placed at the center

The proposed high-level political mechanism is believed to be yet another strategy to award immunity to perpetrators of serious crimes committed during conflict-era