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Nepal: Getting Away with Murder

Joanna Jolly finds out why the scars from the civil war in Nepal are still raw despite attempts by both sides to bury the past.

The fate of hundreds of people who went missing during Nepal's brutal civil war is threatening to undermine the country's fragile democracy. Around 100,000 people were displaced during the bloody insurgency and an estimated 17 thousand were killed. A peace agreement was signed six years ago in which both sides promised that war crimes would not go unpunished. But relatives are still waiting for justice. Joanna Jolly finds out why the scars from the conflict are still raw despite attempts by both sides to bury the past.
Producer: Mark Savage.

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28 minutes

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Thu 4 Apr 2013 11:00

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