At a meeting at Regmi´s official residence at Baluwatar on Tuesday, Dahal called for the revoking of investigations into such cases, arguing that prosecuting those cases would be in contravention of the Comprehensive Peace Accord. Dahal also urged the formation immediately of a truth and reconciliation commission (TRC).[break]
"Chairman Prachanda [Dahal] urged Regmi to immediately revoke the warrants and also urged the formation of a TRC, arguing that it [issuing warrants for insurgency-era cases] would not only be against the Comprehensive Peace Accord but would also force the scrapping of the agreement [between the government and the then CPN(Maoist)]," said Chudamani Khadka, personal secretary to Dahal.
According to Khadka, Dahal also told Regmi that the investigation should be carried out only after the formation of the TRC. The government has started investigations against those accused of killing Krishna Prasad Adhikari. Adhikari was killed in Chitwan in 2004. His father Nanda Prasad Adhikari and his mother have been staging a fast unto death at Bir Hospital for the last 43 days, pressing for the prosecution of the killers.
The UCPN(Maoist) Central Committee meeting, which concluded on Monday, endorsed a special proposal urging the government to form a TRC, arguing that reviving insurgency-era cases would be against the Comprehensive Peace Accord, which ended the Maoist armed insurgency.
The meeting concluded that a section of society was actively conspiring against the party by reviving several insurgency era cases and the Adhikari couple´s fast was part of the same conspiracy.
However, Regmi´s press advisor Bimal Gautam said that the meeting with Dahal was focused on how to get the Adhikari couple to end their fast.
"Dahal expressed concern over how to end the Adhikari couple´s fast unto death.
Regmi has said that the government is working seriously to end the fast while safeguarding their rights," said Gautam. According to him, Regmi urged Dahal to take the initiative to settle the matter from within the party.
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