After Nepal’s bitter conflict ended in 2006, Khadka thought she could make a difference in parliament.
‘I need to speak up because it’s the only way to get justice’: Devi Khadka, whose remarkable story has been turned into a documentary, Devi. Photograph: Pete Pattisson
The police, determined to drag information about her brother’s whereabouts out of Khadka, hauled her off to jail, hung her upside down and continued the assault with bamboo canes. It lasted for hours. “I was vomiting blood. There were bruises all over my legs. I hoped they would just kill me quickly,” she says.
The film is also the story of a country struggling to face up to its past. The war ended in 2006, and in 2014Yet the process was widely criticised for allowing amnesties for serious human rights violations and was accused of being designed to “” for those who should have been held accountable for wartime abuses but who had taken on positions of power in the new government. A decade on, there has not been a single successful prosecution under the act.
After her assault, she joined the Maoists and, as the war raged on, rose up through the ranks to become a platoon leader. Then, in 2002, she was hit with a devastating blow when her brother was killed by government forces. After his death, Khadka took on her late brother’s political role within the Maoist party and then, afterKhadka has been accused of failing to speak up for conflict-era rape survivors while in office, a charge she accepts. “I regret it.
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