Kathmandu, February 3
The Truth and Reconciliation Bill has been presented before the National Assembly on Sunday by Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal.
According to sources, the bill seeks to extend the tenures of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP).
The aim of the bill is to address the concerns of the conflict victims who have long been demanding a revamp of the two commissions.
With the terms of the two commissions, formed in 2015, set to expire on February 9, concerns were growing about the future of transitional justice process which has been dragged on for more than a decade since a peace deal signed between the then seven-party alliance and the rebel Maoists, which formally ended the decade-long civil war in 2006.
