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Award of Excellence
Jonas Bendiksen Magnum Photos / National Geographic Magazine
"Nepal's Maoist Rebellion"
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In the Maoist-run village of Babiachaur, in Western
Nepal rural life is short and violent. With ever-increasing population
densities, soil erosion and less and less resources to go around violence
often erupts among villagers. Here, a young 23-year old man was stabbed to
death by his neighbor after fighting about the rights to a tiny trickle of
water to irrigate their adjacent potato-fields. Such economic desperation is
what enables the Maoist insurgency to florish across all of rural Nepal.
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