Tag: #conflict
Articles tagged with #conflict
We Have No Land, We Are The Land. We Have No Sea, We Are The Sea
Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East make us forget that climate change has also long since claimed its victims. Its geographical effects are inevitably fueling social stress, political tensions and even military violence
Nepal sees spike in suicides during pandemic
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALATwo years ago after going through a bad relationship, a 36-year-old Kathmandu-based doctor started getting suicidal…
Letting go of Sikkim's ghost
King Palden Thondup Namgyal, the last Chogyal (monarch) of Sikkim with his wife Hope Cooke.Nearly half-a-century after the overthrow of Palden…
From the frontlines of Nepal’s war
A narrow ridge that served as a helipad in Kalikot district back in 2004 when the Maoist War was on its peak. Photo: KUNDA DIXITTwenty-five…
Only memories remain
14 years and 11 prime ministers later Text and photographs by Bikkil SthapitMany of the over 1,300 people still listed as missing after the…
Pressure mounts on PM Oli
Hungry, tired and broke, videos of migrant workers walking for days on end to go home from Kathmandu have fuelled public outrage against the…
The India connection in Nepal’s COVID-19 status
The detection of the coronavirus in three Indian nationals on Sunday in the border city of Birganj has highlighted the India connection in…
An alternative to alternative politics in Nepal
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIAlternative politics (वैकल्पिक राजनीति) in Nepal so far has just been limited to creating new political parties.…
Last letter to Rolpa’s Nepali family
Nagarik, 10 February 2020Tilak Ram Nepali was among the 600 teachers who were killed or disappeared during the conflict. He was abducted on 10…
14 years after conflict, no closure in Nepal
Agni Sapkota after registering his name as candidate for the post of Speaker of House of Representatives. Photo: BIKRAM RAIFourteen years after…
A personal encyclopaedia of the Himalaya
Photo: PETER DEANIf there is one book you must set aside, either for new year holiday reading or as a Christmas gift to a fellow traveller, it…
The mental scars of violence
Photos: SEWA BHATTARAIChildren sit in a circle experimenting with different colours on palettes at a shelter in Godavari one morning this week.…
Dreams and nightmares of the Nepal conflict
Illustration: SUBHAS RAIThe Greek word ‘hagios’ means ‘holy’. A hagiography is therefore an admiring book about people who are praised for being…
Revolutionary violence, or terror?
There was sharp and widespread condemnation of the bomb terror unleashed by the Biplav-led Communist Party of Nepal this week on the Nepali…
12 years later, justice is a mirage
Subhas RaiTwelve years after the end of the conflict in 2006, victims and relatives suffered another setback this week with a nasty split in the…
Justice in transition
Baburam Tamang, Maoist activist, one of the 21 killed execution-style by the army in Doramba in August, 2003.It is just over 12 years since the…
The new normal
Diwakar ChettriIt does not matter who advised Prime Minister K P Oli about attending the dubious Asia-Pacific Summit in Kathmandu last week…
Peace on a war footing
HAMMERS AND SICKLES: Basanta Mahatara (left) and Nirmala Thapa’s husbands were murdered by opposing forces during the Nepal conflict. Twelve…
Ex-guerrillas regret the war
Devendra Basnet in Nagarik, 22 NovemberYogendra KC of Ramechhap was recruited into the ‘people’s war’ launched by the Maoists to overthrow…
Remembering not to forget the people's war
Books are scattered around in a dark room, an earthen pot lies shattered to pieces, and clothes litter the floor. The sound of crickets chirping…
Nepal and Burma delay, dilute and deny justice
Nepal’s flourishing diversity of ethnicities, languages and cultures and its socio-cultural closeness to Burma made me feel at home as soon as I…
Rocky transition to justice
Victims of the conflict sign up for a debate on the draft amendments to the 2014 Transitional Justice Act in Kathmandu on Tuesday. Photo: OM…
Asking the difficult questions
Prime Minister Oli’s fence-mending trip to India is not getting into the touchy subject of Gorkha recruitmentBhanu BhattaraiFive years ago, a…