Custodians of injustice

Nepal has a lot to do in terms of fully democratising its institutions.

Not long ago, at the height of the Maoist insurgency, thousands of people were taken into police custody and military barracks as suspected Maoists. The Bhairavnath Battalion, right in the heart of the Kathmandu Valley, had earned notoriety as a black hole of injustice—many who were taken through the gates of the barracks as suspects never returned. Some of them returned as corpses, others as half-dead souls crippled for life, physically and psychologically. Years later, the Maoists joined mainstream politics and formed or toppled governments, joining their necks with some among the old guard they had considered class enemies during the insurgency.