Amnesty International (AI), the London-based human rights watch dog, has said it is seriously concerned by the continued human rights abuses by the Maoists as well as other armed groups even as it points out to the need of ensuring accountability for past abuses.
Unveiling Amnesty International Report 2007, AI has said that both the government and the Maoists failed to implement their commitments to human rights in 2006.
"All the agreements signed in course of the talks included human rights commitments. However, many of the pledges were vaguely worded and few had been fully implemented by the end of the year," AI stated in its annual report on Nepal.
"Despite the CPN (Maoist)'s public commitments to respect international human rights standards, there were continuing reports of unlawful killings, abductions, torture and ill-treatment, extortion, threats and harassment by members of the CPN (Maoist)," states the report.
The report added that there were reports of "ongoing child recruitment after the ceasefire, particularly in the days and weeks preceding the Peace Agreement."
On the state of impunity, the report said the Nepali authorities were reluctant to proceed with criminal investigation into past human rights violations even when detainees' reports were presented by local human rights defenders and the OHCHR.
"Neither the security forces nor the CPN (M) took concrete steps to strengthen accountability within their ranks," the report stated.
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