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In Nepal, the Conflict Victim Common Platform (CVCP) has submitted an advocacy paper on \u201creparative needs, rights and demands\u201d to the Justice Minister and the country's two transitional justice bodies, in the hope of creating momentum for a national policy of reparation. Victims are urging the government to address their needs through urgent support in terms of livelihoods, health, education, employment, remembrance and recognition, based on prior consultations with victims of the civil war.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

CVCP has demanded that the government declare a \u201cnational remembrance day\u201d in memory of the conflict victims and to honour them. In the collective advocacy paper, victims have strongly demanded that the truth be acknowledged and an official apology offered by the State that would give the families \u201ca satisfaction, and respect for their members who sacrificed for social change and republican Nepal\u201d, says Gita Rasaili, a frontline activist of the victims\u2019 platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Law Minister Sher Bahadur Tamang said in a response to the advocacy paper that \u201cthe ministry is taking the victims\u2019 agenda seriously\u201d and is committed to \u201cdraft a new policy of reparation to satisfy victims of the conflict\u201d. However, victims and their activists have little faith in government commitments, since several commitments and agreements have not been implemented in the past. \u201cWe feel extremely excluded from the policy draft,\u201d says recently-elected CVCP chairperson Bhagiram Chaudhary. \u201cThe political bargains occur in the capital and never include victims\u2019 expectations to address our needs and solve the challenges we face every day.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNo political will\u201d\u00a0<\/h3>\n

\u201cThere is not only a trust deficit with government bodies, but there is no political will to acknowledge the past honestly,\u201d he adds. \u201cWe want an immediate solution and honest commitment from the authorities.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Twelve years after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA, 2006), the government of Nepal has failed to form a policy of reparation and there is no movement to repair the past and systematically address victims\u2019 needs. Instead we are moving through a superficial approach and the State does not listen to the needs of victims. Victims themselves have organized local meetings and participatory consultations throughout the country to articulate their needs and develop a national reparations demand.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most acts of violence in conflict are linked to histories of marginality and exclusion. In the Nepal context, the socially, politically and economically excluded were mobilized by Maoist rebels and so became targets for the State \u2013 because of who they are, not what they had done. The Government could frame collective reparations for marginalized communities and excluded indigenous groups -- such as Madhesh, Tharu, Rapti and Karnali \u2013 in \u201cvictim regions\u201d, who suffered most heavily in the armed conflict (1996-2006).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Victims\u2019 needs must be put at the centre of reparations policy framing. Reparative needs must be driven by the affected communities and not just the closed spaces of institutions in the capital like the centralized TJ bodies.<\/p>\n

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