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Nepal objects to UN High Commissioner's remarks

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KATHMANDU, March 30: The government of Nepal has objected to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay´s remarks that stories of serious human rights violations in Nepal were similar to those she heard in Rwanda.



The government filed an objection letter on Pillay´s statement at the UN High Commissioner´s office in Geneva, reported Annapurna daily on Monday.



Dinesh Bhattarai, Nepal´s Permanent Representative to UN in Geneva, filed the letter on Thursday, the daily said.



Pillay, who arrived here on March 18, told a press conference organized at the end of her five-day visit that serious rights violations were committed both during and after the conflict and by the acts of both parties to the conflict.



"Their stories were similar and painfully reminiscent of the dozens that I heard during my eight years working with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)," said Pillay, who left Kathmandu for New Delhi. "The families want the truth so they can have a sense of closure; they need reparations so they can start rebuilding their lives; and, most of all, they want justice."



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