Internally Displaced Persons – 2006
2006
As soon as the Maoists declared a unilateral ceasefire, those who had been displaced due to the conflict and had fled to India began to return to their communities. It was reported that thousands of people from the western hill districts of Humla, Mugu, Kalikot, Bajhang, Bajura, Achham, Baitadi, Doti and Dadeldhura, returned.[fn]”Nepal Displaced Nepali people returning home,” ReliefWeb, May 3, 2006, accessed August 11, 2011 http://reliefweb.int.[/efn_note] The process of rehabilitating the IDPs was slow. This was due, not only to the fact that the Maoists failed to abide by the ceasefire, but also to the fact that the government failed to introduce effective policies and plans. Also, local and district level Maoist activists demanded trials of displaced people in their own judicial system called the “people’s court.”[fn]”Human Rights Yearbook 2007,” Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC), 2007.[/efn_note]