Nepal remains in the grip of a nine-year insurgency battle between its governmentand Maoist rebels. Thousands of lives have been lost in the conflict, but the most heart-wrenching victims are often children being used as pawns.         Rebel territory, western Nepal, is one of the most remote regions on earth. We camehere to meet the insurgents who are fighting to topple the government of the Himalayankingdom. Soon there are no roads, no bridges. The only way to cross this river to enterthe rebel heartland is this box, suspended from a cable, the bridge blown up a long timeago in the fighting.         Here we were approached by a girl in her school uniform. It quickly becomes clearshe and two friends have been hiding in the jungle since the previous day from the rebels,they say, notorious for abducting children to become insurgents.        For the past 10 years, these Maoist rebels, among the last in the world, have beenfighting to overthrow the monarchy here and establish a socialist state. More than 12,000people have died in the fighting, but even more disturbing are the children targeted byboth sides, according to human rights group --- thousands of them, by some estimates,abducted, tortured, and killed. The government says the rebels kidnap children to recruitand indoctrinate.         The rebels deny it, calling it slanders spread by the government, but the story ofthese children says otherwise. She is 16 and scared, Ganga says she thought the rebelswould kill her. She worries her parents don’t know where she is. She herself doesn’tknow where she is. They have no money and no food. They stay the night at thevillager’s house. Khum is 15. He says that rebels beat students at his school with sticks and stones when some try to escape. Shobba says she worries about her exams, andworries that rebels will kill her.        The children are in desperate need for help. We abandon our plans to try and meetthe rebels to try to get the children home.        We suspect there may be some rebels among the villagers here who might want totake the kids away. That’s why we have to get out of here very quickly, and this is howwe are going to do it.        But we may have already been too late. The woman in pink acts in a suspiciousway, leading us to think she may be a rebel. She appeared from nowhere and has alreadybeen in deep conversation with the children, and tried to convince them to go with her.She claims to be a cousin and says she will take them home through a shortcut in therebel territory. Out of hope or more likely out of fear, Shobha and Khum decide to gowith her. But Ganga joins us in the precarious journey to safety across the river, wherethe government is in control. Here at the roadside café, Ganga has her first food in twodays. We put her on a bus for home, a two-hour drive and then two more hours’ walk.It’s been a terrible ordeal for Ganga and she’s far from alone. Increasingly on thebattlefield in Nepal between the government and the rebels are this country’s children.
【題組】41. Which country is Himalayan kingdom?
(A) India
(B) Nepal
(C) China
(D) Bangladesh