Word: kathmandu
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...work he chairs and partially funds the Geneva-based Global Harmony Foundation, whose projects have included a hospital in Niger for victims of Noma, a flesh-wasting disease, and three girls' schools in Afghanistan's Tora Bora region. "For Nepalese landmine victims we turn out wheelchairs in Kathmandu," says Ustinov. "Come to think of it, I could use one myself," he jokes, after a laborious landing in an armchair in his book-crammed living room. Ustinov seems to take comfort in the homey clutter of the room, with its well-read volumes and countless trophies of a long and varied...
...Jihad movement of Bangladesh." Fighters trained and given new identities in Bangladesh also regularly find their way to conflicts in Afghanistan and Kashmir. Indian intelligence says the Islamic hijackers of an Indian Airlines plane with 189 passengers and crew on board, which they forced to fly from Kathmandu to Kandahar in December 1999, had traveled to Nepal from Bangladesh...
...nation and left it struggling for an explanation. Was it the work of Maoist rebels? An attempted coup, perhaps? The truth would be harder for Nepal to accept?a privileged, trusted son had murdered his own family. Jonathan Gregson, a Calcutta-born journalist now based in London, was in Kathmandu in the weeks after the attack, running with a pack of foreign reporters who fought to tell the story. One by one the grieving eyewitnesses came forward and recounted the same chilling tale: Crown Prince Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah had gunned down his family, then shot himself...
...While nobody expects the Maoists to march into Kathmandu and seize power, the prognosis is grim. Preoccupied with factional fights within the Nepali Congress Party and in command of a poorly equipped army of just 45,000, Prime Minister Deuba has little chance of regaining much land in Maoist hands. All through rebel territory, police checkpoints, if they exist at all, go unmanned. Deuba came to power just under a year ago as a peacemaker, promising talks with the Maoists. But when the guerrillas broke off their truce in November, he declared a state of emergency and ordered the army...
...keeping them blindfolded for weeks, sometimes months, beating the soles of their feet with plastic piping, then rubbing chili powder into the wounds. Nor are the security forces above murder. On March 18, a group of 20 policemen arrested five men, including Kanchha Dangol?a carpenter?in Tokha outside Kathmandu. Four days later Dangol's body surfaced at a nearby hospital: he had been beaten, slashed, then shot in the chest and head. The official explanation: Dangol was killed in an "encounter" with the security forces. Deuba appears untroubled by such stories. "We will listen carefully to the complaints...