 Nepal's army, which backed King Gyanendras February 1 seizure of power, is responsible for widespread enforced disappearances and rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said yesterday. In the course of their nine-year battle with Maoist rebels, "Nepali security forces have established themselves as one of the world's worst perpetrators of enforced disappearances," the group said in a report. It said local human rights groups had recorded more than 1,200 disappearances in the past five years alone. "Given the scale of disappearances we have documented, the heightened role of the army after the kings seizure of power is frightening," said Brad Adams, Asia director of the New York-based group.
| In a major departure from their usual even-handed condemnations of human right abuses, Human Rights Watch had no comment on the acts of the Maoist terrorists in Nepal. |
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