17 years since peace accord, enforced disappearance victims still await justice

No progress has been made to deliver justice even as the Maosts have led the government four times since the accord.

Sujan Tharu was sleeping with his father Raj Kumar when a joint team of the then Royal Nepal Army, Armed Police and Nepal Police encircled his house in Bardiya at midnight on October 20, 2002. Security people took Raj Kumar along saying they needed to interrogate him in connection with his alleged involvement in the CPN (Maoist), which was waging an armed insurgency against the state.