Rickshaw drivers wait for passengers attending the inauguration of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) general convention in Hetauda, about 130km south of Kathmandu,

A Nepalese Maoist suppoter carries a child while heading to attend the inauguration of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) general convention in Hetauda, some 100km south of Kathmandu

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