PM urged to not promote NA officer Basnet

KATHMANDU, July 19: Accountability Watch Committee (AWC) has expressed concern over the government´s preparations to promote Nepal Army officer Raju Basnet who faces human rights violation charges.



On Tuesday, AWC wrote a letter to the prime minister, urging him not to promote Basnet, according to a statement from AWC. [break]



Both the National Human Rights Commission and then Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal have held Basnet accountable for human rights abuses in the Bhairabnath Battalion during the conflict.



He was lieutenant colonel at the battalion when the human rights abuses occurred between 2003 and 2005.

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