The Association of Families of Disappeared people (by the State) have started a signature collection campaign to pressurize the government to publicize whereabouts of people who are missing.

As per the information given by the Association, they are collecting signatures from Putalisadak, Naya Baneshwore and some areas of the Lalitpur and Bhaktapur from today.

These collected signatures will be submitted in the upcoming Geneva Convention to create pressure on the government to publicize whereabouts of the disappeared people.

A statement issued by the Association has claimed that the government is yet to publicize the whereabouts of more than 1500 people.

Talking to Nepalnews, Shanta Bhandari, coordinator of Association of Families of Disappeared people (by the State), said that they were compelled to take such a step as the government time and again neglected their calls to publicize the whereabouts of disappeared people.

She informed that they are expecting to collect 700 thousand signatures till the 22nd of February. She also informed that they were not allowed to collect signatures in Ratna Park area.

She warned of more protests if the government did not address their demands this time as well.