Posted by: no_quiero December 3, 2008
Do you guys think our family back home is safe?
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Well, gyanguru it is not the best of time to show off. Particularly in kathamndu looting is more common these days. You hear time and again how the people who comes out of the bank have been looted.

My Uncle/Aunt went to nepal 2 months earlier .  But don't know how some people knew that they have come from overseas . They got a phone call asking for huge sum of money and threatened to come in next few days so keep all the money in order. They also said they have been killing people for number of years now during the insurgency time so its very normal for them. Luckily they never came. 

But these things are normal now. My friends dad who owns a big pharmaceutical has been paying Maoist regularly just to keep his company in order. Another friend who is currently a doctor in UK was himself been kidnapped 2-3 years ago by maoist. His dad is a very famous doctor in Kathmandu. They had to pay rather huge sum of money to get him out. It was  a big news in Kathmandu then which even came in Nepalnews.

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