Children go missing on a daily basis in Nepal, where kidnappers, who are usually neighbors or relatives, hope to make money through ransoms. Police say underreporting, caused by parents’ fears of kidnappers murdering their children, keeps them from doing their job. Others say law enforcement and punishments are inadequate.
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by Tara Bhattarai Senior Reporter, Monday - April 4, 2011
KATHMANDU, NEPAL – For the last three days, neighbors and relatives have gathered in Anju Acharya’s house north of Dharan, a city in eastern Nepal. Everyone who comes in looks sad or is crying. Acharya herself has been in the hospital, traumatized from the abduction and murder of her only son, Raj Acharya.
“After Raj’s death, [the] whole Dharan [townspeople] are in great shock,” says Abhiyandra Niraula, a local attorney.
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