A report titled ´The Missing Persons in Nepal: The right to know´ released on the occasion has updated the list of persons still missing, according to an ICRC press statement issued on Monday. This is the fourth such list published by the institution since the end of the Maoist insurgency in 2006.[break]
The statement urged the authorities to take all feasible measures to account for the missing, and give their families all the information they obtain as required under international humanitarian law.
“The primary aim of publishing these names is to acknowledge the suffering of 1,383 families in Nepal, and to draw attention to find out what happened to their missing relatives,” the statement quoted Laure Schneeberger, the deputy head of ICRC delegation in Kathmandu, as saying. “It has become urgent that the authorities in Nepal create a mechanism that will provide answers to the families of missing persons so that they can get on with their lives and begin the process of mourning and reconciliation.”
Meanwhile the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal have also issued a joint statement on the occasion urging the government to immediately make public the status of the persons disappeared during the conflict.
The statement also stressed on the urgent and genuine need for accountability in the cases of serious human rights violations, including the cases of enforced disappearance committed during the 10-year conflict.
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