Posted by sigismund on November 16, 2011, at 22:26:39
In reply to Re: the political climate you would like » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on November 16, 2011, at 21:06:54
I have heard of these big areas that have coal mines and are subject to civil war.
The Maoists are the main party in Nepal. I made a point of asking anyone I chatted with who they liked, but I am afraid I didn't learn much.
Thirty years ago my wife and I were walking along a dry river bed in Nepal, quite a way from Kathmandu and a man and a woman were walking toward us. The woman carried a bundle, and the man had an umbrella, but who the shade was for I do not recall. We said hello to each other, the man said they needed western medicines, the woman opened her bundle of rags, and in it was a baby who had crawled into a fire, quite charred and black. Their question to us was did we have any (Western!) drugs to cure(!) the baby. (Apart from morphine, is what came to mind). I asked them about their journey....where were they going? They said they were going to a medical station but they knew beforehand that there would be no drugs there; the drugs would have been entirely sold off. The journey was one of several days, and it was the saddest sight, (in particular the umbrella) and might go some way to explain the sympathy for the Maoists in that country
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