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TO GO WITH Nepal-Maoists-UN-conflict-children by Deepesh Shrestha.

This photo taken on January 6, 2010 shows a former Nepalese Maoist combatant checking her new identity card issued by the United Nations after the reverification process of disqualified combatants at a camp in Dudhauli of Sindhuli district, some 180 kilometres east of Kathmandu. Thousands of former child soldiers who fought for the Maoists in Nepal's decade-long civil war will begin leaving January 7, 2009, the UN-monitored camps where they have spent the last three years. Around 250 young men and women are due to swap their blue People's Liberation Army (PLA) uniforms for civilian clothes and begin their journey home after an official ceremony at the Sindhuli camp in central Nepal. AFP PHOTO / Prakash MATHEMA

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Uploaded on January 7, 2010
Taken on January 6, 2010