Govt for detention centers in five regions

Kathmandu, Oct 5 - The government has decided to establish an additional number of detention centres in five development regional areas at the behest of the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA).
The decision comes after the detention centres run under the RNA came under heavy criticism from all sectors recently.
"We have decided to establish additional detention centers in five development regions at the behest of the RNA only," said Diwakar Panta, secretary at the secretariat of the Council of Ministers Tuesday.
The RNA's spokesman Brigadier General Deepak Gurung also said, "We are bound to keep the detainees in the army barracks due to lack of prisons elsewhere and it's difficult for us to keep so many captives in the barracks."
Gurung also revealed that the RNA has been receiving continuous pressure from the National Human Rights Commission and international human rights organizations such as Amnesty International not to keep the detainees in the army barracks.
The RNA had proposed the government to make additional detention and rehabilitation centres to avoid further hassles in keeping the detainees.