Kalimati Banda

Kalimati Banda
Today there was a banda only in the Kalimati area. It was in response to the death of a college student woman. She was raped murdered then cut into 8 pieces and shoved into a bag. It took the police 17 days to find her body. It was found on the outskirts of Kathmandu yesterday morning.
Yesterday when we were walking to get ice cream we saw several people protesting and carrying signs. The signs were pictures of the girl that was kidnapped. Today the students in the area that knew her again held protests. The road was not accessible by car or motorcycles and there were police everywhere. When we were walking to the daycare we saw a huge group of people congregating in the middle of the road. About an hour after we arrived at the daycare one of the employees who is usually there around the same time we are got there. She told us that the group of people were all students and they were now throwing bricks and stones at one another to get attention from the government for the issue.
From what it sounded like from the woman that was telling me the story was that they we either not going to punish the man or they were not planning on giving him a punishment that fit the crime and the people were upset.
This was the first time since being here that had we been on the road we may have been in danger. I never felt at all threatened and there were tourist police everywhere as well to help us if we needed any. It was interesting to be so close to something like this. All of the area did not have work or school because of it so we did not have to go to the school so once we were done at the daycare and we knew that the streets were safe we headed home.