PM assures to ‘fully implement’ probe report; publicise report: Rights groups
Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala gave his words while receiving the report of the high-level probe commission (HLPC) formed to investigate the atrocities committed by the erstwhile royal regime that the recommendations of the commission would be fully implemented.
According to commission member Harihar Birahi, Prime Minister Koirala asked the commission members not to have any doubt over the implementation of the report. “The report will be implemented as it is. Have no doubt about it. Your labour will not go waste,” he quoted Koirala as saying.
Talking to reporters after presenting the 1184-page report to the Prime Minister at Baluwatar this morning, Birahi said that Koirala also assured to present the report at the parliament and formulate necessary laws to take action against those whom the HLPC has found guilty of suppression in the people’s movement-II.
The Prime Minister claimed that the seven-party government had been working as per the spirit of the people’s movement.
Chairman of the HLPC, former Supreme Court judge Krishna Jung Rayamajhi, was also present on the occasion, which was boycotted by two members Ram Kumar Shrestha and Dr Kiran Shrestha, who have claimed that the report that has recommended action against 202 people is rather soft on the key functionaries of the royal regime.
Meanwhile, various human rights groups have demanded that the government publicise the probe report immediately.
Issuing a joint statement, human rights activists including Kapil Shrestha, Dr Gopal Krishna Sibakoti, Sobhakar Budhoki, Kundan Aryal and Buburam Gautam urged the government to make public the report, which is of public interest.
They also pointed out that the failure to disclose the HLPC report was against the citizens’ right to information as well as the spirit of the people’s movement. nepalnews.com mk Nov 20 06
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