Kathmandu, June 6 -- With the hearing of a review petition filed by the government against a 2015 Supreme Court ruling on transitional justice set for Thursday, victims of the decade-long Maoist insurgency have been reaching out to political leaders to demand amendments to the transitional justice act.

In 2015, the court had struck down around a dozen of ambiguous provisions in the transitional justice act, including ones that proposed amnesty to those guilty of serious human rights violations during the conflict, which claimed nearly 17,000 lives.

Victims' groups have been meeting with political leaders to ensure that the Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act-2014 is amended in line with the court's r...