The committee formed to recommend the names of the personnel for Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC) and Commission on Investigation of Disappeared Persons (CoID) have recommended their names on February 9. The committee, formed on June 16, informed that it had recommended the names after going through several procedures and methodology for eight months. According to the committee, former ambassador Surya Kiran Gurung has been recommended as the chairperson of TRC while the members are Lila Udasi, Shree Krishna Subedi, Dr. Madhavi Bhatta, and Manchala Jha. Likewise, former Appellate Court Judge Lokendra Mallik has been recommended as the Chief of the COID while Bujul Bishwakarma, Dr. Bishnu Pathak, Nar Kumari Gurung, and Ai Bahadur Gurung have been recommended as the members. The recommendation committee led by former CJ Om Bhakta Shrestha had its members as NHRC member Sudeep Pathak, Dr. Ghanshyam Lal Das, Pradeep Pokharel, and Shanti Devi Khanal. The recommendations were made as per the mandate of the CPA signed between the then government and the Maoists on November 5, 2006. When contacted, NHRC member Pathak said that he had completed the task he had been asked to but did not divulge other details. The TRC bill was enacted in April 2014 paving the way for the formation of TRC and CoID. The Act came into force despite criticism from the national and international communities and the victims themselves. A conflict victim, Suman Adhikari commented on the appointment saying that the TRC passed with the blatant disregard of the views of the stakeholders would not be able to ensure justice to them. The victims are particularly wary of Section 26 of the Act which empowers the TRC to recommend amnesty. Though, the Act names Rape as grave violence and a non-pardonable act, other heinous crimes have not been named making it easy for the perpetrators to eschew judicial process and claim amnesty. The victims had filed a case against the enacted TRC Act on June 3 saying that it was in contravention of the SC mandamus issued on January 2, 2014, which is still sub judice. The victims said the government’s decision to go ahead with the formation of the Commission while the case is sub judice in the court had indicated that there will a miscarriage of justice and that would not be victim-friendly. Ramesh Prasad Timalsina