Despite the ceasefire and the peace agreement, journalists in Nepal continue to receive death threats from the Maoists and their rights continue to be abused. But such excesses do not deter some journalists. This documentary report (21:09 mins) by the US-based Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) presents an eye-witness chronicles by Aaron Goodman. Guna Raj Luitel, who is described as "the smiling sweet-natured" person, and who is an editor from Kantipur, the country's largest newspaper, accompanied him in his rural reporting trip while the war still raged in 2005.• IFJ Calls for Protection of Journalists' Rights, Himalayan Times
• Press freedom abuses growing despite peace agreement, Asia Media
• Protect the rights of the journalists, experts say, Asia Media
• PBS Report: Caught in the People's War, PBS
• Two journalists and their families receive death threats, IFEX
• Nepal's Media for War, Oh My News
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