Khatmandu pedicab
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Security does not make me feel secure.
When we first entered the airline terminal, all our bags were scanned and I was patted down. After we paid our departure fee, but before we checked in at the airline, all our bags were scanned again by a different machine and I was patted down again. After we went through immigration, our carry-ons went through another scanner, we went through a scanner ourselves and I was patted down again. Before we got on the plane, Air India thoroughly went through all our carry-ons and again patted me down. I don't know enough about the instability of the Nepalese government and the Maoist situation to speculate why the security procedures are so numerous.
Friday, May 25, 2007
Khatmandu airport
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The greatest threat to the stability of post-revolutionary Nepal is continuing to come from an unexpected quarter: not Maoists, royalist officers or the Hindutva movement, but the violent unrest among ethnic Madhesi separatists in the Terai region. Although the violence has not yet reached the level of a general uprising or civil war, riots and protests are taking place throughout the region, and the clashes have claimed at least 21 dead and hundreds of injured.
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