राजा महेन्द्रको रक्तपिपासु सत्ता..... King Mahendra's atrocities How NC rebel were killed in Arghakhachi � Moti Prasad Bhusal's hands and ears were cut � Shamsher Khatri were killed with khukuri and gunshots � Tikaram Sharma was made to walk, blinded and his head was crushed with stones � Shamsher Bdr Khatri was beheaded and another rebel Dal Bdr Kshatri was made to carry the head and shown to people with a placard that read यो अराष्ट्रिय तत्व शमशेर खत्रीको टाउको हो । From a conversation at Nepal Democracy Google Group on Aug 14, 2005 ... ... combatants who met their fate 43-years ago in Arghakhachi. 14 Nepali Congress rebels were holed up in a school premise in Chorkote,Arghakhachi, when they were attacked by the security forces. The leader of the group, Shamsher Khatri, was carrying a small baby when he was attacked. He died immediately with the combination of gunshot wounds and khukri cuts. Moti Prasad Bhusal, another rebel, was tied in a wooden pillar in the school premise. Then he was brutalized and his ears,and hands were cut, and he died of the excessive blood loss. Tikaram Sharma Ghimire was made to walk to Tamghas. His eyes were already taken out.Before reaching to Tamghas,In Buka Khola, his head was crushed with stones. A few days later, Badahakim Chandra Thakali exhumed the corpse of Shamsher Bdr Khatri, severed the head, and made one of the rebels, Dal Bdr Kshatri, to carry it all the way to Tamghas. In the villages, the head was shown to people, with a placard that proclaimed "this is the head of arashtriya tatwa Shamsher Khatri". -- I am often very surprised/shocked to realise how cruelly NC workers who raised arms against king Mahendra were killed. But even more shocking is the fact that no attempts were made after 2046 to investigate that past. A lot of those who killed NC workers were actually welcomed, and promoted during NC regime. Hard to find more ingrate leadership than NC's. After Ashoj 18, Kantipur did a good job of introducing us with some of the forgotten fighters of the past who came to protest against the king in KTM. Most of them are living quite painfully and in poverty.I was quite surprised to read about Jogi Shah, the man who threw bomb at Mahendra in Janakpur along with Durgananda Jha, last year. I didn't even know he was alive. I don't condone violence as a mean to attain political goal however lofty the goal is. Yet, we need to do everything in our capacity to identify and punish the culprits, we need to face the history and learn from it. Forget the past of 2017:I am yet to know if anyone was punished for the excesses committed during Rhitik Roshan Kanda when a lot of innocent Teraibasis were made victims of unusual communal hatred. And of course, we don't know if any one has been charged for September 1st riot in KTM when the Moslems were victimised and the mosque was raided by a mob.Our journalists have a job to do. [The event in Arghakanchi is based on a report by Hem Raj Adhikari Shashtri in his book "Aajako Nepal"]