One comrade explains that this village is on the boundary of a large area of about 150,000 people which is developing towards becoming a base area. Within five to seven hours, he says, they can mobilize a mass meeting of 5,000 people. In such instances, the local police will not dare come in without reinforcements. And by the time they arrive, the meeting will be over and people will have already dispersed. We stay in this village for several days, but because of security concerns, we're confined to the inside of the house during the day.
Many people can only travel in the dark, and even then they are risking their lives.
We even have to be careful when making quick trips to the outside latrine. The People's War is strong here. But this also means government repression is intense. The house we are staying in has been raided many, many times by the police. Compared to Kathmandu, life is very different for the 90 percent of the people in Nepal who live in the countryside.