After eight years of paralysis, the beginning of this year saw a revival of Nepal’s efforts to reckon with the lingering legacy of the civil war, in which some 13,000 people died and more than 1,300 were forcibly disappeared.
Following the appointment of commissioners and the Supreme Court’s decision in February on the government’s “Transitional Justice Act,” which clarified the mandate of two commissions—the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission for Investigation on Enforced Di...
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