Congratulations to Kasra Naji (We want to go home, #268) for bringing a human touch to the story of Maoist abduction of students in Surkhet. So far all we have seen in the Nepali media are statistics of 500, 300, 200 children taken away by Maoists and made to walk for days. Naji has brought us face to face with girls like Ganga, Shoba and Khum and in doing so made real the fear, intimidation and trauma that thousands of children throughout Nepal have been made to suffer even during the ceasefire. Thanks for printing the article.

Lin Sedlar,
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