Tag: #Maoist insurgency
Articles tagged with #Maoist insurgency
2002
On midnight 16 February 2002, on the sixth anniversary of the beginning of the insurgency, the Maoists launched the biggest attack till then…
Me, the Interpreter
Trials and tribulations of the job while learning the language myself
Nepal’s Transitional Justice and the West’s recalibration
Global geopolitical changes and the rise of China means the West has gone cold on transitional justice and its humanitarian agenda
Still looking for Dad missing in Nepal
Nagma Mali holding a picture of her father Nandagopal Mali. Photo: BIKKIL STHAPIT/ VOICES OF WOMEN MEDIAOn 22 June 2004, Nandagopal Mali left…
13 February
This week it will be 26 years since the Maoists took up arms against the state, and 16 years since the war ended. Sher Bahadur Deuba was prime…
How the climate crisis adds to child marriage in Nepal
As harvests fail due to drought and floods, girls from marginalised families are forced to marry earlier to escape poverty
The lingering trauma of war
The letter Kiran Chaudhary got last year from the NHRC informing her about compensation for torture and rape by the security forces during the…
Mother on 25th day of hunger strike
Photo: KANAK MANI DIXIT/TWITTERA mother who is on the 25th day of a hunger strike in Kathmandu demanding justice against the murderers of her…
Nepal stalls on war crime probes
When a Comprehensive Peace Agreement ended a ten-year war between the Nepal government and the erstwhile Maoist rebels in 2006, both sides…
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…
Life and livelihood in remote Nepal
A villager in Maspur, Humla weaves a doko basket from strips of bamboo.“Jai grihasthi” is a greeting heard often in the Far West and Karnali…
Saving democracy and free press in the Philippines
Image: Romeo JerichoEven though it is a country with a liberal constitution and vibrant civil society which struggled long and hard against…