Lal Commission report: Truth and lies

Shelving a report that could speak of security personnel’s wrongdoing will give rise to impunity.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s claim on May 18 in the House of Representatives that the government was ready to make the Lal Commission report public but was constrained by the Supreme Court’s stay order is only partially true. Government bureaucrats who briefed the prime minister about the report must either have concealed the facts or misled the prime minister. Everybody, including Dahal, should know the facts about the Lal Commission report.