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Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Promoting Democracy Abroad: Does Nepal Count?
"In recent years, Asia's deadliest conflict has not been in Afghanistan, North Korea, Kashmir or Indonesia," says John Norris of the International Crisis Group. "Instead, Asia's most lethal war has been waged largely unnoticed in the mountainous Hindu Kingdom of Nepal." Despite the great scale of suffering in this country of more than 24 million people, our Western media has consistently ignored Nepal's conflict. Learn more on Wednesday, April 13, from 2:20 to 3:30 p.m., at the Institute for Policy Studies (733 15th St. NW, Suite 1020). For more information, click here and here.
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