Quotes of the Day
Tuesday, Sep. 09, 2008
Anyone who practices the system will be punished.
- JANARDAN SHARMA,
- Nepal's Peace and Reconstruction Minister, on the Maoist-led government's decision to abolish the slavery-like Haliya system by freeing about 20,000 poor people from the hands of moneylenders and landlords
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