Torture in Kathmandu: hundreds just disappear in war on Maoism

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Times
By Catherine Philp
Nepal has more 'disappeared' each year now than Columbia

IT IS unclear as Jeetaman Basnet begins to speak whether the clouding of his eyes is the effect of being kept blindfolded for eight months or if he is about to cry.

He recalls how he was drinking tea with a friend at a roadside stall in Kathmandu when the soldiers came for him. The men bundled him into a car, blindfolded him, tied his hands behind his back and drove him to an army barracks. Inside, they began to kick and beat him, asking him over and over where Maoist rebels lived.

They demanded to know why he had written articles about an incident in which soldiers had summarily executed captured rebels. He was a journalist, he replied, it was his duty to write about such things.

Unsatisfied, they beat him again with hosepipes and sticks and left him lying unconscious on the cold floor of the barracks, his blindfold still tied around his eyes.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1407207,00.html

[annabanana]

1. sadly, Nepal seems to be on no ones radar

It's just another misery torn fragment of the world.