Nepali Times

Prachanda wrote to Sher Bahadur Deuba assuring an end to the violence as soon as they reached the negotiating table.

Many have been left alive-bereaved, bereft of a past, traumatised forever by catastrophe, but alive. I search their eyes for that spark that says theyll carry on, somehow.

Regardless of its outcome the only way forward for the Maoists is armed struggle.

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