Kathmandu, March 24
Police have taken conflict victims under control while they were staging a protest outside the Prime Minister’s official residence in Baluwatar. The victims were staging a demonstration on Thursday with a view to pressing the state to make public the status of disappeared people, action against those behind forced disappearances, an end to killings and other forms of violence, an end to the culture of impunity and arrest of those involved in conflict-era killings, on the occasion of the sixth Right to Truth Day.
The protesters were sporting slogans demanding action against police officials behind forced disappearances of their kin and arrest of Bal Krishna Dhungel, whom the Supreme Court had found guilty of killing Sajjan Kumar Shrestha in Okhaldhunga district, during the conflict period. They were urging the government to guarantee human rights, make public the status of disappeared people and end impunity.
Police said they took the protesters under control as the protesters tried to enter the prohibited zone and block vehicular movement.
