Kathmandu, Feb. 19 -- Over a year and a half after amendments to the Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act, the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs has finalised the regulations necessary to implement the law.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Commission on the Investigation of Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP), reconstituted in May last year, following amendments to the Act, are waiting for the regulations to expedite investigations into insurgency-era cases of human rights violations.

"The regulations for the disappearance commission will be forwarded to the Cabinet on Friday for endorsement. The one related to the truth commission will be submitted next week," M...