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...house. But he was still breathing. And yet his teenage tormentors kept questioning him. "Why don't you leave the Congress party?" screamed one interrogator. "How much do you earn? Where are your daughters?" But the 54-year-old, whose only offense was that he belonged to the ruling Nepali Congress Party, was beyond speech. Eventually his torturers?a crowd of 60 girls and boys in Maoist uniforms and rebel-red bandannas?grew tired. Selecting a sharpened kukri (a small machete), one of them stepped forward and sliced halfway through Jnawali's neck in a single blow. And that...
...reached an unofficial understanding with the rebels, which ended with his death. Others claim that with the Maoists' political leaders abroad, military commanders have gained the upper hand. "The guerrilla wing has become stronger and the political wing has become weaker," says Yubaraj Ghimire, editor-in-chief of the Nepali-language Kantipur Daily. "The military faction is now leading and the whole concentration is on a military buildup." Others point to the rebels' use of fighters as young as 13 to explain the mindless brutality. As documented from Cambodia to Angola, indoctrinated, prematurely empowered child soldiers are capable of appalling...
...across the border in the northern jungles of Bihar State. The emboldened rebels are also striking isolated army posts to seize automatic weapons. The arms used with such devastation at Mangalsen?5-cm mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and Indian self-loading rifles, according to Kunda Dixit, editor of the Nepali Times?were the first demonstration of their newly acquired armory. "The Maoists, for the first time, had better weapons," said Dixit. "The police were still using their old .303s...
...Sherpa people now navigate daily. Their pioneering accomplishments served as a bridge from the communities' isolated, subsistence past to the "relative affluence and sophistication that they enjoy today," writes Tenzing. A Sherpa, working as a high-altitude climber, can make four times the average annual wage of a Nepali. Namche Bazaar, the trading capital of the Khumbu Valley, once comprising a few dozen mud houses, now features neon lights, sophisticated communications systems and blaring rock music. The Khumbu is dotted with medical clinics and schools. But the climbing and trekking industry has brought with it the erosion of the traditional...
...careless mistake - removing his gloves to tie his boots - led to frostbite that cost him five fingers. Most kids might have stuck to their Game Boy after that, but on May 23, Tsheri became the youngest person to stand atop Everest. For an encore, the 16-year-old Nepali says, "I am going to concentrate on my studies...