Across Asia: Nepal

Child soldiers sent home

Scores of former child soldiers, many in tears, boarded buses yesterday for home, leaving a jungle detention camp, where they have been held for three years, and their lives as fighters behind.

The 155 children were among some 3,000 minors known to have been affiliated with the Maoist rebels, who fought the Nepalese government for 10 years before laying down their arms in 2006 and joining mainstream politics.