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Dr. Ramesh Khatry
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"They shot the Maoist leader, tied to that tree," Pastor Naresh (name changed) had indicated to me three years ago. Sure enough, then the tree looked beautiful and shady as any other in the area, except for deep bullet marks and wounded bark. Now, that tree, on the Sasatar to Maidee VDC dirt track branching left from the Malekhu/Dhading Besi tarred road, stands only as an ugly stump. Probably at the behest of the Nepal Army (NA), government officials have chopped it down. However, people will still point at the stump and relate its gory tales. Whether that chopping-incident or the bulldozing of Tribhuvan Sadan in the former Narayanhiti royal palace, someone in both cases has attempted to annihilate shameful Nepali history. |
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