KATHMANDU, APR 17 -
International rights groups say parts of a bill proposed by the Nepal
government should be rejected because it could provide amnesty to people
who committed serious human rights violations during the country's
Maoist insurgency.
Amnesty International , Human Rights
Watch, and the International Commission of Jurists said in a statement
Thursday that provisions in the proposed Truth and Reconciliation
Commission bill contain provisions for an amnesty that violate
international law.
The proposed bill would set up commissions to investigate crimes during
the 1996-2006 communist insurgency, when more than 13,000 people were
killed, and punish the violators.
The groups say the language in the bill is too vague.
The ex-rebels who are now a major political party fear they could be
prosecuted for their activities during the years of fighting.
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