I am not surprised that some of your readers find the picture in 10,000+ (#209) appalling. Because they don't want to know the truth. These are the very people who sit in the comfort of their home and talk about idealism. I, for one, thank Nepali Times for showing the result of war in such a graphic manner. That is what goes on in a war, and we must be informed about it. Does the picture remind us what's going on in Nepal? Yes. Does the picture remind us how wrong is war? Yes. Does the picture shake us from the bottom of our heart? Yes. Did Nepali Times do justice to the murdered mother and her child? Yes. Bbecause her story was told and we do not want stories like that to occur anymore. Let's stop all wars.

Raja Shrestha,
email

. I wanted to express my disappointment in the Nepali Times for what I believe was a distasteful and egregious error. I am referring to your very graphic and horrendous picture of a mother who brutally killed with her baby sitting next to her. Being from America, a country that seems to have seared its moral conscious and has a general disrespect for human life overall...I have come to expect to see such things here, despite my dislike for it. However, after being in Nepal for a few months, I thought I had been blessed with visiting and seeing country with much higher moral standards than mine. I have nothing but wish to return. Please don't tell me that the Nepali media has lowered its standards to match the debasement of America's?

Please don't stoop to such levels, keep Nepal a notch above the rest.

Carisa Danch,
US