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Nepal: Return to Year Zero

Nepal's Maoist rebels are murdering, beating, bombing and looting—all in the name of 'protecting
the people'

BY ALEX PERRY KATHMANDU

Monday, May. 06, 2002
Even with knives as sharp as razors, it takes time to skin a man. After 35 minutes, flesh was
hanging from Ram Mani Jnawali's shoulders and cuts crisscrossed his legs, ribs, arms, hands,
ears and chin. His legs were shattered at the shins, broken stumps marking where the bones had
been smashed across the steps of his 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's how his wife and son found him, cut
to pieces, head partly severed, when they dared to vent!
ure
out into the yard the next morning. No one knew whether he had died of shock or bled to death,
but the pool of blood around his body suggested the end had been slow.
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