Wang’s wife, Ruan Guoqin, wrote a letter to Bush accusing him of being “too cowardly to voice an apology.” The White House confirmed that Bush received the letter. “What is incredible is your and your government’s apathetic attitude toward my husband’s life,” Ruan is understood to have written.”Can this be the human rights and humanism that you have been talking about every day?”. Crouched outside a bamboo hut, at the edge of a small rice paddy, the old man clutches a letter from his eldest son. Police constable Arjun Kharel wrote home for the last time three weeks before he was killed on Monday night.

Maoist rebels in Nepal carried out their third bloody attack on police in a week yesterday, killing at least 27 in an attack on an outpost in Dailekh district, 340 miles west of Kathmandu.
More than 70 policeman have died since last Monday, at the cost of fewer than a dozen militants, stepping up the long-running strategy of the Maoists to demoralise the government and its agents, and show Nepalis they are a force to be reckoned with.The plight of Nepal’s hapless police was spelled out in a letter from Constable Arjun Kharel, who wrote home for the last time three weeks before he was killed on Monday night. “He knew he was going to die, he knew the Maoists would kill him,” his father, Raj Pradhan, tells visitors to the family’s village, 100 miles west of Kathmandu. “Here is his letter and he writes that he will die.” The old man broke down in tears, and was comforted by his six remaining children.Arjun Kharel was the only member of his family with a job. His prediction of his own death came true on an exposed hilltopcalled Rukumkot. “Kot” means fort in Nepali, but the rickety walls of the police station offered no protection when more than 500 guerrillas emerged from the valley, hurling bombs and firing semi-automatic assault rifles.The Maoists began fighting what they call a “Peoples’ War” in February 1996.

Six years earlier, fighting beside centrist and mainstream Communist parties, they helped to replace Nepal’s authoritarian government with a constitutional monarchy and multi-party democracy They even had a few MPs. But now, inspired by Peru’s vicious Shining Path movement, they attack the very system they helped to create.Just under 2,000 people have died so far. About 700 were police officers ­ the Maoists’ favoured target. “They know the police are increasingly demoralised and unwilling to fight,” a respected human-rights activist, Professor KapilShreshta, said.