b'TOP thought, We had to look afterFrom 1996 to 2006, a civilrecruited both Gharti and Pun.Pun and Gharti,the goats whether we rearedwar swallowed rural Nepal, andIts quite fresh, Pun said, in their backyard garden behindone goat or two goats or more.families were caught betweenand I would never ever want the house. So why not turn it into state forces and Maoist rebels.those days to return again.RIGHT a business? During the 10-year period, Pun walks downNow, Gharti and Pun18,000 people died in theCHILDREN OF WARthe path near hishave about 55 goats, and theyconflict, and, according to aIn the latter part of the 1990s, home to tend to the familys goats. spend the better part of their2006 article in The Guardian,an offshoot of the Communist days raising and caring forNepal also led the world inParty of Nepal launched what them. Its hard work, but itsnumber of daily abductions.they called a peoples war to a far cry from the difficultiesIt was during the middle ofoverthrow the constitutional they both faced early in life. the civil war that Maoistsmonarchy and establish 32| SPRING 2021'