Poverty in Nepal is unbearable... People are seeking alternative ways to feed their families... The 12 Nepalis got stuck in the middle of a war... They are now casualties of a war that should never have been fought... There are numerous casulaties from Nepal, Italy, South Korea, America... The Nepali government must begin to care about their people and the conditions that force them to seek financial gain elsewhere-even in a war-torn, dangerous country like Iraq. What does that say about Nepal if people see Iraq as a better alternative to financial gain? How sad...how terribly sad that no one did anything to stop this from happening. There were protests in the streets when a Filipino was caputred - this pressured their government to negotiate the life of one person and it worked! There were protests in the streets of So. Korea when one of their own was taken and beheaded. Are the people of Nepal so apathetic that they don't care about their "brothers"- why weren't they protesting in the streets? Why weren't we flooding our representative in DC with phone calls and letters? Why are we so goddamn passive????? I guess we already know that the government of Nepal is completely apathetic...I feel awful for the families of those 12 brave men that were unjustly killed. I feel even more awful that this message board is filled with so much hatred and we are so reactive that we as a people have not cared to get involved until now.