Rights group: Nepal conflict-era rapes unpunished

Published September 23, 2014 9:13am ET



KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Both government troops and communist guerrillas raped women during Nepal’s decadelong insurgency but the violence has gone largely unpunished, in part because of a short time limit for reporting attacks, a human rights group said Tuesday.

Human Rights Watch in a report released in Katmandu called the 35-day time limit unacceptable.

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