An Interaction with chairperson of Conflict Victim Orphan Society Nepal

 Internship Nepal organized an interaction program for the human rights interns with Suman Adhikari. He represents the victims of the insurgency period.

He advocates for the justice for all the victims of serious human rights violations during the conflict period. After having witnessed his father's (Mukti Nath Adhikari) gruesome murder by the Maoist cadres in 2002, Suman Adhikari started working in the field of justice and human rights to end the culture of impunity in Nepal. He also initiated to establish an NGO named Conflict Victim Orphans Society in 2003 for the victims like him. The NGO was established for the campaign for justice. He worked as the secretary of Conflict Victim Orphans Society from 2004 to 2011, and is currently serving as the chairperson of the very organization.

In the interaction program he explained how his father Mukti Nath Adhikari, the head master of a School at Durdanda was brutally murdered by the Maoists during insurgency. He said that the truth hasn’t come out yet the people who were involved in murder aren’t yet indentified and detained. He said that the NGO conflict Victim Orphans Society has established with a view to providing justice to the victims like him.

People like him demanding for justice with the government are united together for truth and justice. He also urged that the Truth and Reconciliation committee, the National Human Rights Committee, and other national and international organization has been putting their case again and again in the parliament and pressurizing for the truth to come out. Impunity is the issue of all Nepalese and everyone should be aware of it. He said that they had formulated a task force including victims, human rights, Lawyers, Civil society and other sectors and they have drafted four papers with their minimum standards in four topics. This will be the tool for their advocacy for further procedure to go for justice. There will be single compilation of these four papers and he said that they’ll go to parliament with this.