peace1, your analysis has hit right on the head!! Nice work there which apprantly is so damn true!! These maoists have been pretending to be fighting the war for the upliftment of the poor and downtrodden, but this apparently has not happened. All we've seen for the past 10 years is how the poor have become poorer and the destitute villagers are left with nothing besides moving into an already crammed Ktm. This desperate situation of poverty and impoverishment are the main causes for the rise in crime within the city...In my thinking, if all the side-effects of the Maoist war is taken into consideration, atleast a 100,000 casulaties could be reported (deaths by hunger/malnutrition, abortions due to rape, army and maosit killing, missing people, the same crimes by the Madhises in the Terai can be attributed to the Maoists and crimes commited by the desparate in Ktm). These Maoists have made the entire system topsy-turvy!! And the irony of the situation is that they claim to be equal opportunity providers but looking at all their top leaders, it looks like the newars, shahs, ranas and the matwaalis would never be a part of the governing system. hahahhahaha IS THAT HOW THE NEW NEPAL IS GONNA BE?? IF SO, I WANT NO PART OF IT!!