Whither accountability?

The failure to punish those responsible for September 8 killings will fuel impunity and anarchy.

The commission formed to investigate the deaths and large-scale destruction during the Gen Z protests of September 8 and 9 is closing in on its three-month deadline to submit a report to the interim government. With two weeks to go, the probe panel, headed by former Special Court chair Gauri Bahadur Karki, has finally started preparing to question then Prime Minister KP Oli and his Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak for their involvement in suppressing the protests. A big segment of society still believes that both the political leaders must be held responsible, at the very least, for their abject failure to control the big loss of lives and property. At the worst, they must be directly implicated in the killings.