SHE JUST WANTED A JOB FOR SURVIVAL, BUT NEPALESE SOCIETY GIVES MORE THAN THAT!

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"I constantly wish I could be run over by a car and killed," said Rekha Biswakarma, a traumatised waitress, who works at a cabin bar in the capital, Kathmandu. She was raped by a client and threatened by her employer to keep quiet or lose her job. Her colleagues told the 20-year-old to forget the incident, warning that she would never be able to afford the court costs and had no evidence to prove the crime. But forgetting such an ordeal has proven impossible. Biswakarma has tried to commit suicide several times but stopped herself for the sake of her five-year-old daughter. Two years ago, she and her husband arrived in the capital to escape their impoverished lives in Makwanpur District where they constantly suffered food shortages for lack of income. They depended on her husband's work for a local farm and barely made US$1 a day. Her situation deteriorated in Kathmandu after her husband left her and disappeared. She had some friends working in the cabin restaurants and they offered to find her a job as a waitress but did not tell her what the job really entailed; she only found out when she was sexually abused and raped in her first week. Source: www.pokharacity.com

Mirror.Image · Feb 18, 2009 10:41 PM · 12,854 views

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first of all, that is not the girl. also this is your first post, so are you trying to advertise your site?

khwasa · Feb 18, 2009 11:42 PM

A guy in a bar is not the Nepali society. The guy should be punished to the full extent of law. Nepali society might be fine but Nepali law and order needs to be improved. 

dyamn · Feb 19, 2009 1:11 AM

Wow khwasa.. good catch :D id never have checked :) But I dunno why people go through such extremes to get a couple of extra hits on their site. Id say just create a new thread and be direct "this is my new site. wt do u think of it?" :) I'm sure there will be some who'd appreciate the thought. Peace.

dekchidriver · Feb 19, 2009 1:20 AM

Khwasa and dekchidriver, I am not even from Pokhara and that website is not mine. This article is not written by me. So I need to give credit for that website. Didn't you learn something about plagiarism? Giving credit if the work is not yours. Also, this is not my first post. I am posting after 2 years from different user name. I just wanted to focus on women rights in Nepal. And you guys are making issues like I want most hit for my website. Once again, I found this interesting topic on that website and I have to give credit for their article. That's it. May be you guys need to learn something about citations.

Mirror.Image · Feb 19, 2009 1:48 AM

Whoops. My bad mirror.image. I was only commenting on website advertisement and not on the actual content of what ud posted. :) sry. no offence. the issue you have raised is indeed a grave one, and also a sad one at that. Here is the full link, (btw in citing you have to provide a direct link to the article ;) which in the future will validate your articles ) http://www.pokharacity.com/art... It is an interesting read, although the comments below it are highly doubtful.

dekchidriver · Feb 19, 2009 2:06 AM

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