Nepal civil war torture documented in new film

Worldwide, Daily news | | December 13, 2012 22:10

Yubraj Giri was cycling home after visiting friends in western Nepal when he was stopped by government soldiers, blindfolded, handcuffed and kicked unconscious.

It was April 2004 at the height of a communist insurgency raging through the countryside, and this was the first of more than 100 beatings Giri would endure from security forces who accused him of being a Maoist spy.
“Every day they would torture me in the evening and in the morning for seven months,” said the 29-year-old, once a fit, strong farmer but now unable to work.
“Many times they took me to the jungle, half-buried me in a pit and threatened to kill me.”
Giri’s story forms part of “The Resurrected”, a chilling new documentary by Kathmandu-based film-maker Ganesh Pandey, who set out to put a human face on more than 9,000 instances of human rights abuses during the 10-year conflict.
A farmer from a small town on the Indian border, Giri says he was locked in a tiny, dark, mosquito-infested cell at an army barracks, beaten and told he would be taken into the air by helicopter the following morning and thrown out.
“In the evening eight or nine army men came and tortured me. After severe torture I fell unconscious, he said.
“They asked my name, where I lived, how long I’d been involved with Maoists, where the Maoist camps were, who was living with me, which leaders had visited me and where the arms were kept.”
Last year the United Nations, satisfied that he had been the victim of serious rights abuses, urged Nepal to investigate his case and compensate him for his treatment, but no one has been prosecuted and he hasn’t received a single rupee.
A UN report released in October documented thousands of cases like Giri’s perpetrated during Nepal’s civil war, which had claimed 16,000 lives by the time it came to an end in 2006.
The 233-page “Nepal Conflict Report” criticises Nepalese authorities for failing to bring to justice perpetrators of “more than 9,000 serious rights violations” on both sides during the conflict.
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