Executive director Bijay Raj Gautam of INSEC has said that the trend of enforced disappearance in Asia continent is increasing in the last two decades due to the lack of rule of law, prevailing impunity, poverty, social injustice, autocratic government, struggle for freedom, war and terrorism.
He said that during the press meet organized in Lalitpur to give the information about the two days workshop starting from May 27-28 on “Enforced disappearance in Aisa: prevailing law, challenges and possible solution” jointly organized by INSEC and Advocacy Forum.
During the press meet it was informed that complaints were lodged in Srilanka about the disappearance of 24,000 people during the conflict. Similarly, in Jammu Kashmir 7,000 citizens were enforced disappeared.
Executive Director Gautam said that ” INSEC has documented the information about 932 people that were enforcedly disappeared during a decade long armed conflict in Nepal. But, we have received the information that in an investigation commission about 3000 complaints of disappearance were lodged”.
According to him, in a two days work-shop, 20 representatives from 12 different countries from Asian continent will be participating. The host organization said that in a workshop meeting the participants will share about the prevailing law and incidents about the disappearance and trend of disappearance in asia.
On May 27, the program will be inaugurated by the foreign minister Pradeep Gyawali. Speaking at the press meet general secretary I-Lin of AFAD said that the trend of enforced disappearance is very high especially in the asian countries.