Kathmandu, May 22 -- The two transitional justice commissions have called for complaints from insurgency-era victims, even as the survivors have threatened to constitute parallel civil commissions, refusing to participate in the state-led process to look into atrocities committed during the Maoist conflict.

As envisioned in the revised Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act, the TRC and the disappearances commissions issued separate notices calling for applications from the victims. Three months has been set aside for the conflict victims (who could not file complaints in the past for various reasons) to lodge their cases once the commissions are formed.

The three-month window was provisioned in the Act...