UNHAPPY FAMILIES: Families of victims of Maoist excesses lay out pictures of their loved ones at the Maitighar mandala on Monday asking for justice. Police broke up the meeting and a number of attendees were roughed up.
(MIN BAJRACHARYA)

SPEAKING UP: The Federation of Nepalese Journalists walk through town to mark World Press Freedom Day on Thursday.
(KIRAN PANDAY)

WHERE IS MY DRIVER?: UML general secretary Madhab Nepal looks pensive as he waits in the rain after going through the photographic exhibition, A People War. His driver was upstairs, viewing the exhibition himself.
(KIRAN KRISHNA SHRESTHA)

LIGHTS OF PEACE: The Boudhanath stupa is brilliantly lit with thousands of butter lamps and the light of the moon on the occasion of the Buddha\'s 2,551st birthday on Wednesday.
(KIRAN PANDAY)

OFF WE GO: One of 21 enthusiastic Nepali and foreign participants whizzing along the Tamang Heritage Trail up fro m Syabrubesi on Saturday during a two-day
mountain bike race organised by the UN-supported Tourism for Rural Poverty
Alleviation Program.
(BIMAL SHARMA)