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'Devi' follows Devi Khadka’s journey from surviving wartime rape to working for justice in her country’s transitional justice movement.

KATHMANDU, April 23: Devi Khadka, born in Dolakha, displayed an early passion for learning, despite societal norms that limited girls' education in her village. While her brothers attended school, Khadka, like many other girls, took on responsibilities as a farmer and a shepherd. However, her thirst for knowledge led her to secretly learn the alphabets from her brothers' books.

Records at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission show that among the 63,700 cases it received, 314 are related to rape or sexual violence from the insurgency.

17 years since Peace Accord, torture victims lack adequate means to seek justice and hold perpetrators to account.

KATHMANDU, June 22: “A girl who was under the control and detention of the government security forces for three years had a one-and-a-half-year-old child in her arms when she was freed. Who is responsible for finding out the father of the child born in state captivity?

Beaten and raped by police officers as a child, Mira was among the many victims of sexual violence during Nepal’s civil war and is now one of the few to recount her ordeal. Guerrilla attacks and forced disappearances were daily facts of life on both sides of the Himalayan republic’s decade-long Maoist insurgency. The conflict ended in 2006 with a peace deal that brought the rebels into government and promised justice for those who had suffered in the fighting.

Beaten and raped by police officers as a child, Mira was among the many victims of sexual violence during Nepal's civil war -- and is now one of the few to recount her ordeal.

Silent no more: Nepals wartime rape survivors demand recognition