Rights groups ask Nepal to scrap amnesty provision

Published April 17, 2014 9:29am ET



KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — International rights groups said Thursday that parts of a bill proposed by Nepal’s government should be rejected because they might allow people who committed serious human rights violations during the country’s Maoist insurgency to escape punishment.

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the International Commission of Jurists said in a statement that the provisions in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission bill would violate international law.

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