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21-08-2008  Photo Collection  
Missing persons in Nepal: the right to know
In 2001 following the breakdown in the truce between the government and the Maoists, 20 young men left home in Jogimara, Dhading District to work on an airport runway being built 800 km away in western Nepal. Seventeen of them never returned.

© ICRC / K. Kayastha/ np-e-00209


Bishnu Chepang, father of Kumle Chepang, pictured with his grandchildren, tries hard so that Kumle’s children do not feel their father’s absence. Samita, the youngest, was still in her mother’s womb when Kumle disappeared. After more than six years of waiting, Bishnu has no idea how long he can continue hoping that his son will one day return.

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