Its a heinous crime and I denounce every type of violence, just every type of violence. ( me- a vegetarian by nature, arko thread ma bhane jhai). But, regarding this news, I will wait for a while before I verify its validity. Fortunately, we now have the United Nation's High Commissioner of Human Rights, Ian Martin. He seems a super-powerful fellow with access to virtually anywhere. So, I always wait for their version of the story, for anything- be it a "royal" atrocity or a Maoist one. And esp for this news because- For one, it is very unlikely from the normal Maoist trend, they are f**king killers and keep killing men with every brutality imaginable, but mass-rape was never heard of. Besides, the Maoist militia, most of the times, is made of at least 50% of women. Women are normally respected in the Maoist camp more than they would be in a typical rural Nepali household. For two, it is circulated only by Kantipuronline. Such an event should have been covered by both Nepalnews and Samacharpatra and even BBC alike. The Nepali edition of Kantipur (kantipur daily) has an "apologize" message as its first news item. I could trace that it was regarding yesterday's cartoon of Girija carrying a carcass labelled "rajtantra" out from a container. In a royal mouthpiece "Nispaxa saptahik" under nepalnews.com, they are bashing Kantipur and asking things like the folks at Kantipur be severly punished and so and so. Plz dont take me wrong, but I still doubt the credibility of this news, it could also be a "canned circulation" under the directorship of the dictatorship as a punishment for Kantipur itself. My suspicion is because a crime of such gravity shuold have been covered by other media outlets as well. I will wait for what Ian Martin says. Still, I curse those "rapers", तीनका ____ कीरा परेर मरुन