Nepal: A spiralling human rights crisis

Index Number: ASA 31/016/2002
Date Published: 3 April 2002
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, Nepal

This document provides evidence of unlawful killings, "disappearances", torture and arbitrary arrest and detention under various security laws by police and army personnel since the CPN (Maoist) declared "people's war" in February 1996. It also includes details of the deliberate and unlawful killing of civilians, the execution-style killings of police officers taken captive, hostage-taking, torture and the imposition of cruel, inhuman and degrading punishments, including "death sentences" by the Maoists. The Maoists have also been responsible for recruiting children as combatants.