Kathmandu, Jan. 17: With a view to studying the human rights situations in the Maoist hit areas of the country, two groups from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) are visiting four Maoist affected districts from the first week of February.

Member of the NHRC, Kapil Shrestha is making a 15-day trip to Salyan and Rolpa heading a four-member visiting team while members Dr. Sushil Pyakurel and Gauri Shankar Lal Das are making a trip to other two Maoists affected districts of Jajarkot and Rukum.

According to the members of the visiting teams, their visit is an infrastructure building measure for minimising the violation of human rights and ending the Maoist insurgency movement. In the five-year long Maoist insurgency movement the death toll has touched the 1,700 mark so far.

“By studying the Human Rights situations there we are planning to bring to light the reality so that pressure could be given to both the government and the Maoists,” member Shrestha said at a brief meet with the press today.

Citing the Maoist insurgency movement, there has been more human rights violations now than in any other movement in the country’s long history he added that their upcoming trip was to find proofs of how and where human rights have been violated.

The teams will not only study the situation of the right to education, health, socio-economic potentialities and other basic human needs in the Maoist hit areas but will also hold discussions with the local government officials, civilians and the Maoists as well.

This is the first attempt the NHRC is making regarding the Maoist insurgency after it was established some six months ago.

Meanwhile, member duos Dr. Pyakurel and Das are visiting Rajbiraj today to study the Rajbiraj firing incident and will visit Nepaljung coming Tuesday to study the Nepaljung incident that took place recently.