I definitely see that chana tarkari has valid point about if villagers are getting mass murdered not much demostration, yet a beating of businessman created such hue and cry. But instead of just saying that that high profile beating gets such big news, shouldn't we be saying whats wrong with our system. There are so many defects with our system in Nepal yet so few and willing to do. All anyone does these days is give speeches and annouce a bandh these days. The situation is so bad that you can witness people breaking the law in front of the policeman and he won't do anything about it. About bribery, yes the businessmen did give in but think of it this way. You are the head of a company, one of your staff is taking bribes to do the work you already paid him. The customer might gather courage to tell you once, to tell you twice but if you turn a deaf ear to him, what will he do? Add to that threats to kill you and your family, what do you do? You should try doing business in Nepal sometimes, run a factory and see how easy it is. You go to bank to get your loan, the bank makes you sign a piece that states you are criminal even before you get the loan. Thanks to the non-existant company act in Nepal, the law does not differentiate between you or the company. Therefore, the company's liability becomes your personal liability. Black listing anyone? Then you go on to build your factory, but hey you need to get a license or government approval to operate your company. Key word government here, low paid officials sees money walking through the door. Do you pay bribe to the officials or do you complain to top people. You complain once, a month goes bye, you complain a second time, three months pass bye, nothing happening, small article in the newspaper may appear depending whether newspaper people like you. You get call, its the bank, it wants its interest. So what do you do? Pay the official Rs. 5000 and get your factory running or wait another 3 months and pay Rs. 15000 to the banks for interest. No brainer right. So your factory is running, you have 200 odd employees, three months pass and they have unionzed. Don't think about your American or western unions, these are your political labour unions. Congress is in government, UML declares bandhs, one half of your labour force doesn't come to work. Then UML is in the government, you get the picture. So with half your production, you managed to sell but oh no not enough money (the bank will get its interest and taxes are paid no matter what) to pay employees. You tell your workers, oh no another strike. A month passes by, giving in you pay the bank, you pay your taxes and your workers. Stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea. Can't close the factory because workers won't let you and neither will the political parties. Can't layoff workers because Labour Courts always side with the workers and laying them off avoiding the law has a high price which you do not have money to pay with. Banks calling you up, jail, blacklisting. The last option seems to be just running the factory. Two years down the road, factory doing ok but hey who are these red folks, Maobadis? They want donation, you report to the government. They ask you again, you again report to the government but no reaction. One day, boom...a bomb has gone off in your factory, the Maobadi say your family will be next and also next time it just won't be a part of your factory. I guess donations will follow openly from that moment onwards because Maobadi aren't just people with words but people with action. Lets see now your family has been threatened, your bleeding money, can't close the factory because now the workers are dependent on the factory in this bleak economy. So donations to Maobadi, tax to government who doesn't provide you with protection, bank interests (yes, they just declared they had bumper profit year), paying your workers and what is this, even though your factory is not operational due to the bomb blast, you have to pay minimum charge to the electric and water companies. Just bleeding money. You ask for help, maobadi increase their donations because they think you are helping the government, government increases tax because it doesn't have money, banks and utilities companies don't really care because they don't have to. Loss for you, profit for everyone else. So in this really wonderful business environment, when surviving is your main objective, hard to think of democracy and all those other wonderful rights. Threatened, bombed, ignored, doesn't mean you give up living. You, your family and those 200 workers, what do you do? Money certainly doesn' grow on trees. I bet even the interet you are using requires you to pay money. If you earn money, its probably from a business somewhere. Whats so bad with greed, it is a human nature. You take away a child's favorite toys and he/she starts crying. So what's so bad about making money? The failure of communism is thinking that they can make everyone the same. But inequality is a fact of nature, one place has flood, other has drought. Siberia is icy cold while Sahara is burning hot. What if you are an inch taller then me, do I cut a few inches from you? The beauty about America, is the law and order. It attempts to treat everyone equal and there are people enforcing it. Enforcing it gives people courage to report it too. We can go on pointing fingers but we need to do something about it. Action speaks louder then words.