Amazing photos!

I spent a month there in around 2014, not long before the giant earthquake killing tens of thousands. I remember seeing some armed soldiers scattered around in various areas while I was hiking the Annapurna mountains. Our guide told us some were from one side, the maoist commies, and the others more established protectors or something like that. I was too young and uninformed to really understand what was going on all around me.

But it's fair to say, this has been something a long time coming, rather than some single event as is being reported at the moment.