KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The United Nations has condemned Nepal's appointment of a former communist rebel commander as information minister while he is still a suspect in a kidnapping and murder case.
The world body said Friday that Nepal's government broke commitments to investigate human rights abuses during the country's decades-long civil war by appointing Agni Sapkota as minister of information and communications despite the open case against him.
Sapkota says he is innocent in the 2005 abduction and killing of a man in Kavre district, just east of Katmandu, in a crime blamed on the Maoist rebels.
Police opened a criminal case three years later — after a U.N.-brokered …
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