Stiffler,

Unfortunately, this also means that third world (developing) nations become havens for people like Osama Bin Laden. After Saudi Arabia took away Bin Laden's citizenship, he went to a country like Sudan that is poor and lawless. And he used his money to spread his influence and his organization. Nepal too is used by many under-world dons from India to organize themselves away from the tight grip of the law.

Bin Laden, as we know, then went to Afghanistan. Many of these guys take advantage of the lawlessness and disorganization in the state to establish their criminal empire. Charles Sobhraj, in many ways, was attracted to the East for that reason. Despite being a French citizen, he openly stated that he liked operating in Asia because it has so much more loopholes for someone like him to exploit.

Without arguing the political righteousness or lack of...in many ways, the Maoists took advantage of the the loose security situation in Nepal to organize themselves. If they could organize themselves, probably any organization could.

There are a lot of these kind of groups that thrive on the chaos in Nepal to grow their own criminal empires.