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In 1995, in response to government corruption, a People's war was declared by the Communist Party of Nepal. The war between the Nepali Government and the Maoists continues claiming countless lives of innocent Nepali people who could be from either side, Government or Maoist or Innocent Bystanders. The saddest part of this war is the abduction of innocent children and ordinary Nepalese and their killings and disruption of day to day life. To the ordinary Nepali people and to the world at large, the war is between the `Royal Nepalese Army', which is the Nepal's national security force and the Maoist Rebels. But in any war the innocent kids, the fragile youth seeing the world with new eyes and minds struggling to stand on one's own feet, and the poor-and helpless Nepali parents trying to survive with only what support they get from family, who too get killed in the conflict without a reason. More than 15,000 (Fifteen thousand) Nepalese have been killed since the conflict began. There is no national official registry of the victims. 200 people died alone in November 2004! For more information on the war, click on the external web links below:

We Pray For Peace in Nepal

Secular Nepal

Nepal Vista: Real Nepal Facts : Freedom

Who are Nepal's Maoist Rebels

Frontpagemag.com:Articles

Life Under Nepal's Maoists

NepalNews.Com:Maoists

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