Nepal: Insurgency related cases should be resolved by principle of transitional justice says Dahal

Nepal's UCPN-Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that he would take responsibility for incidents that occurred during the decade-long Maoist movement.

At a press conference organised by the Revolutionary Journalists Association, at Dang, Dahal clarified he would take the entire responsibility of the then incidents as the supreme commander of the people's liberation army (PLA) and the party chair as well, reports The Himalayan Times.

Dahal said that that the insurgency-related cases should be resolved through the principle of transitional justice.

The former Prime Minister further said that he did not have any objections about the activities of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Commission for Investigation of the Enforced Disappeared.

Dahal urged the Nepali Congress and Madhesi centric parties to join the incumbent government to give it a shape of a national consensus government.

Dahal clarified he was exercising to transform the incumbent government into a national consensus one.

Responding to a query relating to the recent meeting of different Maoist parties at his party headquarters, Dahal expressed dissatisfaction over some decisions of the courts deliberately made against the Maoist parties.