Unheeded, unhealed

Some conflict victims might be divided, but the issue of transitional justice won’t die down.

One of the most important clauses of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, signed in 2007 after the Maoist insurgents came to mainstream politics, was the setting up of mechanisms to investigate and solve conflict-era cases. These mechanisms would lead the transitional justice process and provide a closure to the atrocities committed by either of the conflicting parties during the insurgency. Apart from setting up two commissions—the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commision for the Investigation of Enforced Disappeared Persons—there has been little progress on that front. The transitional justice process has remained an unhealed wound for over a decade and a half.