Monday 24 April, 2006
Sad times
It's terrible what is happening in Nepal at the moment. Thanks to Boing Boing to this link to a photoblog on the demonstrations. Here's a photo I took when I was there in more peaceful times.
The situation in Sri Lanka is disheartening as well. It seems like they will be back to living with fully fledged civil war again in the near future which will further devastate an already devastated country.
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