The NHRC is to exhume conflict-time graves on Monday in a bid to identify five youths from Janakpur suspected to have been killed by security personnel in 2003. [break]
A team of national and international forensic experts is scheduled to fly to Janakpur on Sunday for the purpose.
"A group of four officials from the commission left for the town on Saturday and the experts´ team is scheduled to reach there by Sunday," NHRC Secretary Bishal Khanal told myrepublica.com.
Two Finnish forensic experts, who have already arrived in Kathmandu, and a group of national forensic experts, will carry out the task of exhumation.
Security personnel on October 8, 2003 arrested 11 youths including Sanjiv Labh, Durgesh Labh, Jitendra Jha aka Machhali, Pramod Narayan Mandal and Shailendra Yadav from a get together at a house at Janakpur Municipality-14.
Eyewitnesses said the security men comprising army, police and plain-clothes personnel arrested the youths and later took them to Janakpur Zonal Police Office.
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