25 Quotes by Ian Martin

We have noticed that there are women victims but the numbers are not so big, though women face the greater fatalities.

The government shouldn't deny the fundamental rights of people to organize peaceful protest program by carrying out arbitrary detention of leaders like in the past.

We will be actively monitoring the general strike ... to ensure there is no excessive use of force.

The right to peaceful assembly should be respected and nobody should be arbitrarily arrested or detained for exercising their right to a peaceful assembly.

Our concern is that the right to peaceful rallies should be respected...There should not be unnecessary use of force.

This is not a situation that can continue indefinitely.

Although there were clashes by supporters on both sides ... it was the militias who were carrying guns, weapons, and that once again heavily armed and equipped police failed to intervene (against) when that militia violence was carried on in front of them.

This is the moment when the leadership of CPN (Maoist) must give clear and public instructions to its cadres to end all abductions of civilians, must release any other civilians still held after being abducted, and must ensure that those instructions are followed.

I told the home secretary in the clearest terms of the concerns of our office and our expectation that his ministry take responsibility for implementing measures that will ensure the protection of human rights.