Posted by: ashu November 19, 2004
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This chart is from the Himal Khabar Patrika's Web site
As long as the Maoists target people in villages -- desperately poor, anonymous. helpless and unconnected to any civil institutions of any sort -- the residents of Kathmandu can go on denying that more than 80 per cent of them are NOT affected
by the Maoist violence.
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On the first day of each Nepali month, leading members of the Nepali civil society gather at a park in Thapathali to hold a candle-light vigil to mourn the dead. It's a good start, but let's hope that from next month onward, they will also do some work to find out
the names of those who did the dying and then recite their names in public.