In his enthusiasm to boost Nepal's tourism by providing retirement benefits for foreign tyrants, Kunda Dixit in Under My Hat ('Old age home for the world's tyrants', #222) says Emperor Bokassa invested his hard-earned money from the Chadian exchequer in France. As any despot worth his salt knows, Bokassa hailed from the Central African Republic (yes, that is a country). And, as long as I have the editor's ear, let me ask this: we can give refuge to other people's dictators, but who will give refuge to ours?

Ganesh Rai,
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