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Little Princess (Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition)
Little Princess - Doubleday Large Print Home Library Edition Author:Conor Grennan The decade-long civil war of Nepal(1996-2006) claimed more than thirteen thousand lives. The devastating economic consequences destroyed hundreds of thousands more lives in one of the poorest countries in the world. In the remote regions of the country, the Maois rebels, who had taken up arms against the king, used intimidation and murder to con... more »trol villages. They abducted children, forcing them to join the rebel army in the fight against the royal government. Children traffickers, preying on villagers' fears of Maoist abductions, deceived families by promising to take their children to the safety of the Kathmandu Valley, one the few regions left in Nepal that was still free from Maoist control. For this "service," they collected vast sums from impoverished families. The traffickers then abandoned the children in Kathmandu, hundreds of miles from their mountain villages. These children, who could be as young as three years old, effectively became orphans. There are ten of thousands of children still missing in Nepal.« less