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The post-conflict Trojan horseon the internet and cases related to intellectual property rights. 19 Afterrepeated cases of hacking and fake credit card rackets, the call for atechnically sound anti-cyber crime bureau was strongly felt in Nepal.Youths occupy the bulkiest part of the cyber transaction. Sharma (2009)puts forth that the teenagers take up 82 per cent of the total internetvisitors in Nepal. In the same regard, 98 per cent of teenagers in urbanNepal visit pornographic sites (Sharma 2009). It means that 80.36 percent of the total internet visitors in Nepal are accustomed to visit pornosites.This leads the young ones to think about sex and associated thingsfrequently, thereby increasing the rate of related crimes.Of course, psychic orientation is largely shaped by where people live andwhat socio-political circumstances take place around. The post-conflictsociety in Nepal has begun to show that they have been bearing graveimpacts of the decade long conflict. The level of suspicion and criminalityhas spiraled up to the level that people beat someone who is playing withunknown kids or is giving something to the children at unknown setting.There is no chance for the victims even to defy. One case of Koteshwor,Kathmandu in 2009 and some other cases of alleged kidnapping in theTerai belt are glaring instances that people are heavily suffering undermental torture, fear, suspicion and terror. This shows the aggravatingpost-conflict psyche. Nepal has not yet devised any concrete plan to dealwith such things. One has to know, the war psyche, for sure, has positivecorrelation with the increment of crimes.7. Factors that affect crimePost conflict crimes and the future they herald are very sensational andsensitive as well. Handling the fragile security remains always a toughjob in such a situation. But most of the classical security strategies lookat crimes from a very narrow angle. They simply do not pay attention,or ignore even if they know, the structural causes behind the occurenceof crimes. Thus, classical security approaches focus only on bullets andbatons. Putting them aside, post-conflict security has to focus principallyon the proxy causes of crimes the addressing to which can indeed make adifference in security. Some of them are discussed as following.19Visit http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-33614516_ITM for more details. Thedata was accessed on 9 April, 2010.224