Number
of
disappeared
2006 |
The
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Nepal has
urged the government and the Maoist leadership to clarify the state of
hundreds of people who are missing in course of the decade-long armed conflict.
National
Human Rights Commission says it has received 1,768 complaints of people
disappeared by the security forces till second week of August 2006. Similarly,
750 complaints were filed in reference to people missing hands of the Maoists
and 73 at the hands of unidentified people.
This
also includes the cases of over 40 detainees tortured and disappeared from
a Maharajgunj-based Army barracks in Kathmandu during 2003-04. The International
Day of the Disappeared is an annual commemoration day created to draw attention
to the fate of individuals imprisoned at places and under poor conditions
unknown to their relatives and/or legal representatives.
Earlier,
the NHRC found the whereabouts of 1,205 people disappeared by the state,
435 by the Maoists and 15 by the unidentified group. |
