KATHMANDU: The United Nations has urged Nepal’s Maoist rebels to fulfil their commitment to human rights, saying it was concerned over cases of killings, torture, ill-treatment and abductions by the guerrillas.
“By fulfilling the commitments of its leadership to respect human rights, cadres of the CPN-Maoist can both make an immediate improvement to the human rights situation in Nepal,” a UN official said, referring to the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists), in a statement released late on Monday.—Reuters
