23-29 August 2013 #670

Headline

Scar of war

BIKRAM RAI
SCAR OF WAR: Impatient for the rains to end, boys prepare to fly kites in the ruins of the Police Training Centre in Thulo Pakhar of Sindhupalchok that was bombed during the conflict.

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