ROLPA, March 3 -- Even though it has been more than 12 years since the decade-long Maoist conflict ended, the conflict-era victims are yet to know why their family members and relatives were abducted and killed. They have been disappointed after the ones who made their relatives fight, killed them or disappeared them took the leadership of the government repeatedly but failed to address the pleas of the victim families. After the newly formed Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Commission for Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP) failed to produce substantial results, the victims have been deprived of not only justice but also reparation.

Dhula Roka Magar of Theban was 40 when her husband was killed in the i...