General, What I am saying does confound logic :-) Here's a "for-dummies" version. GENERAL observations: Nepal is a mess. The number of those who have set up shops to help clean up the mess has been INCREASING in Nepal for the past several years. Even with all that support over the past few years, Nepal's mess has been INCREASING all the more. Hence the puzzle: Why? I am sure there are MANY explanations. But ONE possible untested and totally value-neutral explanation could be this: Maybe who stand to make some sort of a profit from such mess have an incentive to play up the mess all the more. And this applies ACROSS the board -- to NGOs, to the decision-makers at the Ministry of Defense to human rights bodies and so on and on. I can't help but wonder WITHOUT blaming anyone in particular. Tetti ho. oohi ashu