They fought Nepal civil war for a change, and the war changed their lives for the worse

Dukha Ram Chaudhary of Ghorahi in Dang, who turned 75 this year, remembers the day during the Nepal civil war (1996-2006) when the Maoists came and showed the future of change. They used to say, “This fight is not for us, it is for the people. All kinds of discrimination like caste untouchability, and class discrimination will end. Our lives will change.”

At the beginning of the conflict, Chaudhary also thought that after the tough days of the civil war, inequality, discrimination, poverty and oppression would all end for real. “We thought our sorrows would end, happy days would come and our lives would change.”