The names of all twelve captives were made public long ago. And as I posted earlier, BBC ran a story on one of them, Ramesh Khdka. The twelve hostages are: Prakash Adhikari (Jhapa) Ramesh Khadka (Lalitpur) Lalan Singh Koiri (Dhanusha) Mangal Bahadur Limbu (Dhankuta) Jit Bahadur Thapa Magar (Gorkha) Gyanendra Shrestha (Khotang) Rajendra Kumar Shrestha (Khotang) Bodhan Kumar Sah Sudi (Dhanusha) Manoj Kumar Thakur (Dhanusha) Sanjay Kumar Thakur (Dhanusha) Bhekh Bahadur Thapa (Rolpa) Bishnu Hari Thapa (Lamjung)