However, the investigation has found human remains of “minimum” one unknown male, which has led the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to carry out further investigation. National and international forensic experts had carried out an investigation of the remains found at the site in the first week of February 2008.
“We are discussing with national and international experts on further investigations,” Gauri Pradhan, NHRC commissioner and spokesperson, said at a press meet at the NHRC office in Lalitpur on Wednesday.
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A group of national and international experts had collected suspected materials from the site believed to be a mass cremation site in the first week of last February. The materials were then taken to Finland for further investigations. Four national and two Finnish national forensic experts were involved in the investigation.
Pradhan said that the evidence would provide a lead to the right body to reach a conclusion whether the human remain was of one of the 49 people. “The complicated part of the investigation has been complicated and further investigation will be an easy one,” Pradhan said.
The alleged disappearance of the 49 people by the Nepali Army from the Bhairavnath Battalion at Maharajgunj, Kathmandu is still one of the major human rights issues of the ten-year old Maoist conflict. The issue was internationalized when the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights came up with a report holding the army responsible for the disappearance of the 49. The whereabouts of the disappeared remains still unknown.
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