{"id":66027,"date":"2024-08-05T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T06:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/05\/devi-khadka-rebel-fighter-maoist-mp-rape-survivor-sexual-violence-campaigner-nepal"},"modified":"2024-08-05T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T06:00:08","slug":"rebel-fighter-maoist-mp-rape-survivor-the-many-lives-of-devi-khadka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66027","title":{"rendered":"Rebel fighter, Maoist MP, rape survivor: the many lives of Devi Khadka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Nepal\u2019s bitter conflict ended in 2006, Khadka hoped to make a difference in parliament. A new documentary charts the disappointment and the passion of one of the most outspoken advocates for the country\u2019s forgotten women<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere is your brother?\u201d the police shouted as they began to lay into Devi Khadka. \u201cWe know you\u2019re going to meet him. Tell us where he is!\u201d One of the officers kicked her hard in the stomach and she crumpled to the ground. \u201cFor a few seconds, I blacked out,\u201d says Khadka. \u201cI thought it was the end for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was 1997, a year into Nepal\u2019s brutal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2006\/nov\/23\/nepal\">decade-long conflict<\/a> between Maoist insurgents and government security forces, and the police were after Khadka\u2019s brother, Rit Bahadur, a local Maoist leader. Khadka had gone to the market in her home district of Dolakha in the east of Nepal, on an ordinary shopping trip. Now she lay in the dust, blood seeping from her nose \u2013 a 17-year-old girl surrounded by a squad of male officers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/05\/devi-khadka-rebel-fighter-maoist-mp-rape-survivor-sexual-violence-campaigner-nepal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Nepal\u2019s bitter conflict ended in 2006, Khadka hoped to make a difference in parliament. A new documentary charts the disappointment and the passion of one of the most outspoken advocates for the country\u2019s forgotten women\u201cWhere is your brother?\u201d t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4363,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[707,59,241,242,440,61,83,617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary-films","category-global-development","category-nepal","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-sexual-violence","category-south-and-central-asia","category-war-crimes","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66028,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66027\/revisions\/66028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}