UN High Commissioner likens Nepal's rights situation
to Rwanda

Visiting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, Sunday said she
found the condition of the people who were victims of serious human rights
violations during and after the conflict in Nepal similar to that of war-torn
African nation Rwanda.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay...

"During my visit, I met several families whose loved ones were victims of
serious human rights violations, both during and after the conflict and by the
acts of both parties to the conflict," Pillay said, "their stories were similar
and painfully reminiscent of the dozens that I heard during my eight years
working with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda."

Organising a press conference in the capital at the end of her five-day Nepal
visit, she affirmed that these families want the truth "so they can have a sense
of closure; they need reparations so they can start rebuilding their lives; and,
most of all, they want justice."

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