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Nepal stalling prosecutions on war crimes: HRW

By AFP
November 21, 2020

KATHMANDU: Nepal’s authorities are preventing police and prosecutors from pursuing wartime crimes from the conflict between Maoist rebels and the state which ended in 2006,contributing to a culture of impunity, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. More than 16,000 people died in the 10-year civil war and over a thousand went missing.