Nepal: Tharu community stages protest in Kathmandu as demands remain unaddressed
protest in Kathmandu
Members of the Tharus minority group on Tuesday staged a protest in Nepal's capital city of Kathmandu,demanding the releaseof those imprisoned during the Madhesh Movement that roiled the Himalayan nation in 2015.
Demonstratorsgathered in the capitalwith the demand that the Lal Commission Report - which was formed to investigate atrocities during movement in Southern Plains in the year 2015 - be made public.The communityalso called for the release of Rashtriya Janata Party-Nepal lawmaker Resham Chaudhary, who was held guilty for the Tikapur carnage.
"By not making the Lal Commission Report publicwe are deniedthe right to information. How did the incident of Tikapur happen? Who are the actual culprits? Are the Tharus only to be blamed? The answers to all these are there in the Lal Commission Report."
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The front also held a hunger strike in Dhangadhi city in Kailali District and called on for a two-day total shutdown from March 3 on self-proclaimed Tharuhat province topressurise the Nepal governmentto address its demands.
Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal, an amalgamation of the-then Madhesi Alliance who fought for amendment of constitution back in 2015 has long been demanding for the release of a report which was submitted to theGovernment of Nepalin December 2017.
The report was prepared by a commission formed under the leadership of Supreme Court former judge Girish Chandra Lal in the year 2016 to investigate human rights violations in Tarai/Madhes movements.
Thehigh-level probecommission on Terai-Madhesh unrest was led by Former Justice of the Apex court ofNepalformed in the year 2016. The restive Southern Plains of Nepal witnessed bloodshed and widespread protest after the promulgation of the constitution in the year 2015.