In Red Star Over Mt Everest? (#40) Barbara Adams points out that the atrocities committed by the Maoists are perhaps the natural outcome of decades of failure by the government to provide even the basic needs to the vast majority of Nepali population, especially in rural areas. The pictures of poverty-stricken, hungry, and hopeless Nepalis would be as gruesome and heart-breaking as those of dead Nepali policemen and their widowed wives weeping over their bodies.

Anil J Shahi
Maharajgunj