Although international organizations play a vital role in the process, national authorities must ultimately lead the way in establishing responsibility and taking steps toward reparation, if a society’s wounds are to be healed. In November 2006, the Nepalese government signed an accord to establish a high-level independent commission on the disappeared. The commission’s mandate should be independent and humanitarian, focusing on clarifying the status of the missing and the provision of remedies and reparation.

In February 2007, the ICRC published a list of 812 missing people in a Nepalese newspaper and on its website, which incited over 100 more families to come forward.