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Nepal went through a people’s uprising between 1996 – 2006 AD. It has received many names, the Maoist conflict, a civil war, the People’s war, a Maoist Insurgency, etcetera. It was between the Revolutionary forces of the Communist Party of Nepal – Maoists, and government security forces backed by the Royal Nepal Government. The conflict went on for a decade. More than 17000 lives were lost to the conflict. After the comprehensive peace accord between both sides in 2006, the war officially ended and paved a way for the Maoists to enter mainstream politics. It also ended a feudal system under the Shah dynasty of 240 years. It was seen as a dawn of a promising new beginning of change, reconciliation and hope. However, it’s been 14 years since the war ended. And still, there are many who still live with grief and feeling of disenchantment. This work is based on the traces of the visual history of Nepal’s various political Agreements that happened after the initiation of the conflict on 13 Feb 1996 and a response to the general conundrum that despite the political changes that came in the past years hasn’t brought any substantial change in the lives of the people. For this work I have seen the internet as an archive that lay between the public and the private archives. I have scouted the internet, gathered and manipulated images and derived my title from a part of the audio where the interviewer’s had asked a question regarding the lives that were lost to the chairman of the Nepali Maoist party. To which he responds, “…Sorry for that!”.