Though the transitional justice bodies have been taking complaints from conflict victims across the country, it has not been easy for those who want to register their complaints. Some are finding complaint registration a difficult process, as they are being watched by security personnel while filling the forms. According to some conflict victims in Birendranagar, Surkhet, last month, they were distracted, and also concerned, while filing forms at the Itram-based local peace committee (LPC), as two unfamiliar faces started asking them against who they were registering the complaints. Later, with the help of LPC employees, they found that the duo in question was personnel of the Nepal Army. The incident occurred on April 20.

The following day, two more NA personnel had approached the LPC office to seek details of complaints and the individuals who had filed them. LPC coordinator is learnt to have told the security personnel that his office could not disclose the details. Earlier also reports had surfaced that security personnel were seeking details of complaints filed at LPCs in the various districts. It is learnt that security personnel try to get information in the guise of media persons. “But even to the journalists, we do not provide details. We just give them information like the number of complaints registered,” said Mohan Thapa, coordinator of the LPC.