The government on Friday has constituted a high level Judicial Commission to probe into atrocities committed by the security personnel and officials against pro-democracy demonstrators across the country and recommend actions against them.

A meeting of the council of ministers on Friday decided to constitute a five-member Commission under the chairmanship of former Justice at the Supreme Court, Krishna Jung Rayamajhi.

Other members of the commission are senior journalist Harihar Birahi, lawyers Ram Prasad Shrestha and Ram Kumar Shrestha and general secretary of Nepal Medical Association Dr. Kiran Shrestha.

Talking to reporters after the meeting of the council of ministers at the Prime Minister’s residence at Baluwatar Friday evening, Minister of Finance Dr Ram Sharan Mahat said details about the scope and structure of the Commission will be made public on Sunday.

The panel has been asked to name those persons in the royal regime who used force to thwart the pro-democracy movement of the country.

Rayamaji, who also heads a Civic Peace Commission formed as part of the public initiative to draw the attention of the governments towards peace, is a democrat and was involved in human rights and peace activism.

Following the announcement of the panel, Rayamajhi said the guilty would certainly be brought to book. “Pressure may come from various quarters as the perpetrators may be relatives and friends of powerful persons, but I will not bow down; I will find out the truth,” he said.

He also expressed hope that his report would not meet the same fate as that of the Mallik Commission formed after the 1990 mass movement. The Mallik Commission, formed to look into the suppression of the 1990 democratic movement, had suggested the government take action against several persons it had named. However, the interim government then did not act.

The newly-constituted government was under tremendous pressure to try and book the culprits responsible for suppressing the people’s movement 2006.

At least 19 people lost their lives and thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators were injured across the country during the three-week-long demonstrations.