Arrested on the age of 17 throughout the early days of Nepal’s civil conflict within the late Nineties, Devi Khadka was accused of being a insurgent, tortured and raped in custody. Insurgent leaders uncovered her as a “rape sufferer”, marking her with a taboo that led to melancholy and social ostracism. Battling these horrors, Khadka joined the insurgent entrance strains and rose by the ranks.
After the conflict ended, she was elected to Nepal’s new parliament however grew to become disillusioned upon discovering that Nepal’s leaders sought to bury the painful fact of wartime rape. As the general public face of the survivors, Khadka can now not keep silent. Pushed by a fierce willpower for justice, she units out to unite Nepal’s forgotten ladies and to reconstruct the historical past that has been intentionally erased.
Devi Khadka: The Undefeated is a documentary movie by Subina Shrestha.
