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Government ministers met with the victim's family over the weekend and promised to review laws and create a memorial in honor of the little girl. "Will erecting a statue bring back the life of a 3-year-old girl?" Pramila Kumari Gachhadar, a lawmaker with the opposition Nepali Congress party, asked in parliament Monday, criticizing the government's handling of the case. "An agreement paper may temporarily stop protests, and relief may ease momentary pain, but it cannot restore long-term perception of justice and trust in the state." Another lawmaker, Prakash Pathak of the prime minister's Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), urged the government to consider the death penalty for convicted rapists, according to The Himalayan newspaper.
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