SALYAN, Feb. 14 -- Pokhar Raj Kunwar of Guranse in Chhatreshwori Rural Municipality-1, Salyan, lost his father during the Maoist insurgency. A few days ago, Kunwar was tilling his farmland where he found six bullet shells. Finding these bullet shells in his farmland took him back to the Maoist insurgency era.

Victims of the decade-long conflict still live in the shadows of the war. Some of them still have bullets lodged in their bodies, a cruel reminder of what the war did to them.

Kamala Kunwar, a resident of Chhatreshwori-1, said, "I escaped the battle with my three-year-old daughter, but not without getting a shrapnel lodged in my head. Aside from the physical pain from my injuries, I have to deal with the emotional trauma sustained ...