Human rights activists and conflict victim family in Nepal repeated their concern that justice could not be ensured until the impunity was put to an end in the country. Activists speaking in an interaction program jointly organized by Muktinath Memorial Foundation and Amnesty International Nepal on 16th January 2013 marking 11th memorial day of late Muktinath Adhikari.
Addressing to the program Subodh Pyakurel, Chairperson of Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC) criticized the Government for promoting impunity in Nepal. He added that people should begin a campaign from Lamjung to ensure justice for late Muktinath Adhikari.
Likewise, former Chairperson of AI Nepal Charan Prasai condemned the Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai’s alleged move to halt investigations and court proceedings in the journalist Dekendra Thapa murder case.
Similarly, Activist Dinesh Tripathi expressed strong dissatisfaction over the ordinance proposed on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission as power to recommend amnesty in human rights cases.
Muktinath Adhikari, the then Convener of Amnesty International’s affiliated Group -79 and Headmaster of Panini Sanskrit Secondary School were assassinated by the Maoists on 16 January 2002.
On the occasion, then Secretary of Nepali Congress Ramchandra Pokhrel, former Member of Parliament Ram Chandra Adhikari, Treasurer of AI Nepal Pratap Poudel, Former Chairperson of AI Nepal Pradip Pokhrel, Chairperson of Nepal Teacher’s Union Mohan Gyawali, Deuda singer Nanda Krishna Joshi, Chairperson of Muktinath Memorial Foundation, Krishna Bilas Adhikari has also expressed dissatisfaction over the existing impunity in Nepal.