Kathmandu, April 3 -- Differences between insurgency victims over the transitional justice process are not new. But the discord was mostly private-until recently.

Now, conflicting positions of two groups of victims on the implementation of a recent Supreme Court verdict have brought these differences out in the open. On March 12, the top court had ordered the government to start selecting office bearers in the two transitional justice commissions-the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons-within a month.

Until the office bearers are appointed, the court had asked the government to constitute task forces within the commissions to carry out preliminary investigations into t...