Kathmandu, Aug 31-The Nepal Bar Association (NBA) today called upon the Maoist insurgents to immediately release the 52 security men taken hostage by them during a clash in Pili, Kalikot district, last month.
“The insurgents have taken the army men under control. They should release the hostages immediately and without condition. NBA demands treatment to them as per Geneva Convention,” NBA vice-president Sher Bahadur K.C said at a program organised to release the investigation report on the incident.
The NBA said the Maoists, by brutally killing some four-dozen army men, grossly violated the human rights and the right of to life. The report said the identity of a number of persons killed in the clash was yet to be identified and many dead bodies still remain unattended.
Demanding that the concerned side provide compensation to the families of two civilians killed in crossfire in Pili, the NBA urged the security forces and the Maoists not to target civilians.
In one of the deadliest clash in recent months at least 80 persons including several dozen rebels were killed in Pili. The rebels had a few weeks earlier disclosed the names of the Pili hostages and pledged to release them at an opportune time.
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