No relief

The politicisation of reparations and their selective nature does grave injustice to victims.

Following the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) in 2006, the provision for distributing relief packages to victims of a decade-long Maoist insurgency (1996-2006) also commenced. Under the then Peace and Reconstruction Ministry, the government established the Relief and Rehabilitation Unit, which was tasked with considering the local peace committees’ recommendations for victims’ support. The central government set aside budgets for the families of the deceased and the victims of enforced disappearances. Soon after the country transitioned to federalism, provincial governments and local units also devised relief programmes for conflict victims.