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Sushma Joshi is a writer and researcher in Nepal. She has worked recently for the UN, but insists that her analysis is her own. Her blog is at www.sushma.blogspot.com
The three metre long red wooden pole is an instrument of humiliation for convicted criminals that is chillingly reminiscent of the Chinese Red Army. It has made its appearance, not under Maoist inspiration, but because of the absence of a functioning state legal system.