22 September, 2015
Amnesty International issued a public statement on 22 September, on the eve of the first death anniversary of Nanda Prasad Adhikari, who died following a hunger strike to protest against the lack of investigation into the killing of his son, saying there remains no justice for victims of conflict-era human rights abuses and their families in Nepal.
Adhikari from Gorkha district carried out a 333-day hunger strike until death, following several unsuccessful years of seeking justice for the killing of his son, Krishna Prasad Adhikari, in 2004. His wife Ganga Maya Adhikari also undertook a hunger strike and remains in a fragile condition.
Thousands of people in Nepal are in a similar situation to the Adhikari couple, with no recourse to justice for human rights abuses committed during Nepal’s armed conflict that ended in 2006.