Eleven years to the day, a bomb ripped apart a bus full of civilians and 12 army personnel in Badarmudhe river. Thirty-nine people, including the army men, died on the spot. Most of the 72 injured were rendered physically disable. Ever since, the people of the valley have been lighting candles on the site of the attack every year in memory of the black day. The then-rebel Maoists, who planted the remotely bomb and remotely switched it on, have never participated in the occasion. “We mourn the dead every year, even if the country ignored us,” says Krishna Adhikari, who was also handicapped for life in the explosion. “It should never happen to anyone in the future.”
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