Justice For Conflict Victims On Horizon?

Nepal’s protracted transitional justice (TJ) process is apparently heading to a logical conclusion after a three-party taskforce Thursday sorted out the key contested issues pertaining to it. The panel involving the representatives of ruling Nepali Congress and CPN-UML, and opposition CPN-Maoist Centre, have thrashed four thorny subjects - defining the grave human rights violations that took place during the Maoist insurgency (1996–2006), providing justice and compensation to the conflict victims, finding a way out if the victims refuse to pardon the perpetrators, reducing the duration of punishment to the guilty and giving compensation to the discharged Maoist combatants.