A tiny group of Islamic extremists cruelly murders 12 innocent Nepalis.

But 11,000 Nepalis have died at each others' hands in a senseless war brought on by the cruelty, exploitation, corruption and neglect of the ruling elite.

And every day hundreds of Nepalis die of hunger and treatable disease, victims of the structural violence of a feudal Hindu society.

Enraged but irrational people vent their anger on Nepal's innocent Muslims, imagining that they are responsible, not realising that this just endangers other Nepalis in west Asia by provoking a cycle of retaliation.

As Gandhi taught us, 'An eye for an eye leaves the world blind.'

Let light banish the darkness and love banish hate; the future of our world hangs on it.