Nepal's poorest villagers sought basic rights from their government. Instead of medical services and transportation, they got a bitter fight called the "People's War." Since 1996, more than 11,000 people have been killed. Caught between two sides that demand undying loyalty, peasants in the once peaceful Himalayan Kingdom suffer the most from the power struggle between the King's Royal Nepalese Army and Chairman Prachanda's the Maoist forces.
