16-22 August 2013 #669

Headline

The price of peace

KUNDA DIXIT
The war came at a heavy cost, but Nepalis are also being made to pay for peace. The peace process so far has cost the national treasury Rs 20 billion, a lot of it wasted or embezzled.

From our archives

EYEWITNESS

20th December 2002
A first-hand account from the Maobadi epicentre.
KANAK MANI DIXIT in EAST ROLPA

War widows

20th December 2002
The suffering and misery of Surkhets war-displaced is heartbreaking.
RITA THAPA in SURKHET

Something is rotten.

14th February 2002
.with the state of commercial banking in Nepal.
BINOD BHATTARAI

A people's war

20th December 2002
At every turn we meet people denied the choice of being neutral.
KANAK MANI DIXIT in EAST ROLPA