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- Title
Making Them Accountable: Victim-Activists' Critical Engagement with Truth Commissions in Nepal.
- Authors
Billingsley, Krista
- Abstract
Almost a decade after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, officially marking the end to a ten-year internal armed conflict between the Communist Party of Nepal—Maoists (CPN(M)) and the Nepali government, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP) began ‘inviting complaints' in April 2016. In just over 90 days, the TRC received more than 50,000 complaints, and the CIEDP received more than 2,700 complaints. Based on 14 months of ethnographic research before, during, and after the complaint-taking processes, this article focuses on the perceptions of members of conflict victims' groups who were activists for social andpolitical change through processes of transitional justice in Nepal. Rather than an indicator of the commissions' effectiveness in gaining legitimacy among victims, I argue, victim participation in Nepal's truth commissions was a demonstration of resistance to continued exclusion from elite-led processes of transitional justice, a response to feelings of powerlessness, and a form of activism for victim-centric redress of conflict-era human rights violations.
- Subjects
NEPAL; TRUTH commissions; TERMINATION of war; WAR victims; TRANSITIONAL justice
- Publication
Journal of Human Rights Practice, 2019, Vol 11, Issue 1, p190
- ISSN
1757-9619
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jhuman/huz015