According to Advocacy Forum, a human rights NGO that provided legal assistance to file the FIRs, altogether 30 families of the victims of serious human rights violations had moved the district police offices on Thursday. [break]
“Such a refusal by those entrusted with defending human rights in their daily work shows how senior officials are in fact condoning human rights violations, promoting impunity and denying justice to the victims,” said Mandira Sharma, Director of Advocacy Forum.
In the FIRs, the families urged the police to promptly investigate cases of extra judicial executions, enforced disappearances and attempt to murder and called on them to take legal action against the perpetrators.
“Despite the commitments made by previous governments time and again, all of them have failed to provide justice to the victims of human rights violations,” Sharma said. State Cases Act of Nepal requires the police to register FIR to begin investigation into any crime.
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