Let's help the Maoists join the mainstream
Former UML MP from Salyan, Prakash Jwala, travelled to the midwest to assess the lives of his constituents after the ceasefire.
Faced with food shortages, forced recruitment by Maoists and harassment by security forces, the people of Salyan are either opting out or hunkering down.
This is a "peoples' war" in which ordinary people like Purna Bahadur Khatri, Amrit Bahadur BK, Tilak Nepali and Bishnu Prasad KC and Seti Buda are being killed.
