Women have been a part of violent conflict in many cases but their experience of conflict and the effects of their participation have received very little attention. The way women experience and are affected by conflict is different from men.1In early 1996, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist...
Young Jawans of Nepal Police are issued with a special type of khukuri that would serve them throughout their policing career. The security force has a particular type of khukuri slightly different than the army version. The blade is heavier, more curved and rosewood handle is preferred instead...
The number has declined sharply but annual recruitment still occurs for Nepalis to join the British Army and also the Brunei and Singapore armed forces. The Indian Army also has Gurkha battalions. Gurkhas have been part of regional and global security, participating in colonial wars, conflicts ...
Leela was in army custody, exhausted, terrified, and hopeless, when she spoke to Human Rights Watch in March 2006. She had just survived one of the most intense battles of a brutal decade-long civil war that has already killed 13,000 people. Naturally, she was frightened of what the futu...
Nepali men who want to join the Russian army first travel to Russia on a tourist visa. Most of the people CNN spoke with said they went via the United Arab Emirates or India. After landing in Moscow, they go to a recruitment center, where a physical checkup is done, they said. ...
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