Kathmandu, Aug. 21 -- While some insurgency-era victims are fighting a legal battle challenging the amended Transitional Justice Act and the legitimacy of the office bearers appointed in the two transitional justice commissions back in May, others have registered complaints as called for by the commissions.

On May 18, a day after new commissioners assumed office, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons called for complaints from the survivors of the Maoist insurgency who could not file cases in the past, within a three-month deadline.

The truth commission has received over 11,000 new complaints. A large number of such complaints are from the victims of sexual violence a...