Beaten and raped by police officers as a child, "Mira" was among the many victims of sexual violence during Nepal's civil war -- and is now one of the few to recount her ordeal.<br /><br />Guerrilla attacks and forced disappearances were daily facts of life on both sides of the Himalayan republic's decade-long Maoist insurgency. The conflict ended in 2006 with a peace deal that brought the Maoists into government and promised justice for those who had suffered in the fighting.<br /><br />Sixteen years after the war ended, only two convictions have been handed down for civil war-era crimes in civilian courts, while rape survivors are frustrated that their own traumas have been met by official indifference.
