01.0 - 01.04 Butter Lamps
01.04 – 01.16 Cloudy Mountains
01.16 – 01.29 Maoist Meeting
01.29 – 01.43 Political Commissar: “As comrade Marx says, the proletariat has nothing to lose. Chains if we are defeated, but the world in front of us if we are victorious.”
01.43 – 01.48 Maoist Red Salute
01.49 – 02.46 Maoist training in East Nepal
02.46 – 02.51 19-year-old comrade Bihani
02.51 – 03.28 Bihani: “We have sworn allegiance to the revolution. We are fighting for our rights and emancipation and we will continue to struggle for them. If we are scared or if we give up the struggle, we will never win our rights. That’s why we are prepared to die.”
03.38 – 03.47 Himalayan GVs
03.47 – 04.13 Kathmandu GVs
04.13 – 04.27 Rural GVs
04.27 – 04.32 People
04.32 – 04.37 Bridge
04.37 – 04.50 Royal Nepalese Army Parade
04.50 – 05.08 Kathmandu GVs
05.08 – 05.16 Mandira Sharma, Human Rights lawyer
05.16 – 05.43 Mandira Sharma: “Courts are not functioning properly, court orders are not observed torture is being used very systematically and routinely, extra judicial killings are going on and there is no investigations at all on those kinds of cases. Victims of disappearances have faced similar problems – there is no remedy for the victims. So we have been going through the worst time in terms of human rights.
05.43 – 05.53 Drawings of torture practices
05.53 – 06.22 Torture victim
06.22 – 06.38 Mandira Sharma: “The army is systematically torturing people, they have been very systematically killing civilians and also using forced disappearances of people and they have complete impunity.”
06.38 – 06.49 Army Parade
06.49 – 06.56 Army Spokesman Brigadier General Deepak Gurung
06.56 – 07.15 Army spokesman, Brigadier-General Deepak Gurung: “He used the word systematic which is totally wrong. It’s not true, it’s not systematic. Maybe individual cases might be there of torture, but if anyone makes a mistake and we come to know about it we carry out our investigations and we court martial.”
07.15 – 07.26 Kunda Dixit, Newspaper Editor
07.26 – 07.50 Kunda Dixit: “99.999 percent of Nepali people don’t want this war. They don’t want to have anything to do with it and yet they are the victims. People realize it is just a power struggle between revolutionaries who are outdated in their ideology and a monarchy that wants to take the country back three decades. And in that power struggle, they are just caught in the middle.”
07.50 – 08.18 Plane to Musikot, Rukum district
08.18 – 08.47 Musikot town
08.47 – 09.08 Aftermath of Maoist attack in Rukum
09.08 – 09.27 Rukum GVs
09.27 – 09.40 Bal Bahadur Malla, Chief District Officer, Rukum
09.40 – 10.13 Bal Bahadur Malla: “The situation is grave here concerning Maoist activities. In generals, all parts of the district is severely affected by Maoist activities. Maoists are terrorists in my opinion because they have initiated from the very beginning anti-social activities. That’s why they are terrorists.”
10.13 – 10.49 Man Kumari Bista, displaced woman.
10.49 – 11.45 Man Kumari Bista: “They killed him at 8 in the morning when he was down by the river. Even though there was a police station nearby. There is so much pain in our lives.
They burned all our houses – three houses and a cow. There is too much pain. I don’t know what to do or how long I can live like this”
11.45 – 11.55 Dead man stretchered to mortuary
11.55 – 12.07 Jeevan Khadka, Human rights worker
12.07 – 12.58 Jeevan Khadka: “There have been widespread violations of human rights here in Rukum. The Maoists have abducted, detained and tortured people for not supporting them. The state meanwhile has also detained and tortured innocent civilians, leaving an increasing number of civilians caught in the middle.
12.58 – 13.46 Teacher Narjit Basnet arrives at school
13.46 – 14.45 Narjit Basnet: “Suddenly four men appeared - two in front, two behind. They grabbed me by the neck, threw me down into the river and cut my leg. Then they cut my hand off – I was pleading with them not to kill me. Then they cut me on the head, my leg and the fingers of my other hand. I curled up into a ball and they left me for dead.
14.45 – 15.02 Children playing in school ground
15.02 – 15.52 Maoists in east Nepal continue training
15.20 – 15.29 Comrade Dipesh: “This is just an exercise. We are practicing how to overrun an enemy bunker from all four sides.
15.39 – 15.47 Comrade Bihani: “Yes. This is exactly the strategy we use when we attack the enemy.
15.52 – 16.18 Comrade Bihani
16.18 – 16.47 Comrade Bihani: “No I don’t think I am wasting my life. I just don’t allow my personal feelings to stand in the way. That is why I am prepared to give everything I have for the liberation of the people.
16.47 – 17.15 Maoist controlled town of Chisapani
17.15 – 17.27 Dalit (untouchable) caste workshop
17.27 – 17.41 “Our situation is much better than before – we used to be discriminated against because we are Dalits. And we are hoping for even more improvement in the future.
17.41 – 18.05 Ganesh Pokharel last saw his son as he set off with a friend to find work in the valley.
18.05 – 18.28 “I heard that he and his friend were beaten with iron rods. They were beaten until they were unconscious, but it was only his friend who regained consciousness.”
18.28 – 18.50 Kapil Raj, English teacher.
18.50 – 19.09 “Common people are trapped between two stones. If the government side comes here we must accept. If the Maoist group comes here we have to accept.
And our request is please let us freedom.”
19.09 – 19.31 School
19.31 – 20.03 Kunda Dixit “ Nepal has always been on the brink of a humanitarian crisis even before the war began. Look at our maternal mortality rate, the number of children who die. We’ve always had a huge humanitarian crisis – the insurgency has just made matters worse. And I think now if the world wants to help, the help is really needed to tackle the first problem which is to end the insurgency and then maybe look at the larger background humanitarian crisis that was always there in Nepal.”
20.03 – 20.14 Army Patrol
20.14 – 20.35 Maoists attack an Army truck

20.36 – 41.20 Between Two Stones – IRIN Final Cut

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