“Nepal has the highest number of enforced disappearances in the world with about 986 unresolved cases of disappearances, respectively 888 by the security forces and 98 by the Maoists.” "Nepal’s bloody conflict claimed the lives of 1,608 people in 2005, out of them 1,008 were killed by the security forces while 600 were killed by the rebels, according to a report released on Monday." -- Asian Center for Human Rights and Forum Asia You do the math, and you make the decision! Of course, it does not justify the Maoist violence either, albeit comparatively less lethal than the violence committed by the security forces; however, it clearly sheds some light on who bears the greater onus of doing the right thing when it comes to protecting civil and human rights of the citizens. That is, on top of the fact that the GOVERNMENT, not the Maoists is signitory to various human rights accords, AND that the security forces, NOT the Maoists, derive their salaries from the national coffers, i.e., the tax payers' money!