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| | Emergency and a crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | For example, the high-profile principal of a secondary school in Lamjung district, Mukti Nath Adhikari (an Amnesty International activist), was tortured and killed on charges of being an informer. |
 | | On the other hand, in Ilam district, a lawyer (an activist with INSEC) who had mediated between the Maoist-affiliated revolutionary students' organisation and the representative organisation of private schools, was being hunted by the police. |
 | | At the district headquarters, the Chief District Officer's routine response to all queries is, "Ask the Army." With political and developmental programmes at a standstill and virtually all administrative activity remaining suspended, the security forces have come to represent the face of the state and government. |
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