http://www.anikolouli.gr/index.php?pathID=1_118_119_126_129&aid=2571
From the above link:
Disappearances in Tunnel --
He got lost in Nepal[by Angeliki Nikolouli]
Greek-English Zisimos Souflas 27 year old traces lost at Nepal lost on April 24th.
The young man traveled from England to Nepal in mid-February 2012 to attend the wedding of a friend, son of former Prime Minister of Nepal, Kathmandu. After the marriage, he remained there to "explore" the country.
One day prior he contacted his mother [April 23, 2012], telling her that he will return to England on May 14th. The next day, he left the hotel [April 24, 2012] where he was staying in the village Namke taking only his passport.
In July, the family received a call from the town of Pago Myanmar, which is headquarters of Buddhists, but does not know if it is related to the missing person.
His family fears for his life. His height is 1.85.
We have two pieces of evidence that ZS did not have plans to deliberately disappear as of April 24, 2012:
1. the email to Ford Nepal requesting return of volunteering fees;
2. the email to his mother (if the above source is correct).
Previous disappearances in Nepal have had political overtones; but since ZS had only been in Namche Bazaar at most one night, and since this town's successful economy has been built on foreign tourism going back several decades, politics seemed an unlikely motivation to abduct or harm ZS. However, if ZS were close friends with the family of a former Prime Minister, possibly politics is a factor.
Goenka Vipassana (GV) has a branch in Pago Myanmar:
http://app.server.dhamma.org/en/schedules/noncenter/bago.mm.shtml
Although Goenka himself is an ethnic Indian; he was born and raised in Myanmar (also known as Burma).
Reference:
http://www.vridhamma.org/Teachers-4
In Vipassana, Mr. Goenka found the way out of his miseries experienced in his early life. Born in Mandalay, Myanmar, in a business family of Indian origin, he became one of Myanmar's ranking business leaders, with offices in many countries. By age 30, he was elected president of the Yangon (formerly Rangoon) Chamber of Commerce and head of many social, educational and cultural organizations.
Mr. Goenka had outstanding success, but not inner peace. Instead, stress brought on crippling migraine headaches, which the world's best doctors were helpless to treat, except with addictive and debilitating drugs. Besides, Mr. Goenka said, he was a very short-tempered, egoistic, person making himself and others around him miserable.
It was at this point that Mr. Goenka met and was inspired by a unique personality in post-war Myanmar: Sayagyi U Ba Khin, the first Accountant-General of independent Myanmar. U Ba Khin also taught Vipassana and worked to spread its practice in public life.
Could ZS have been coerced into joining GV subsequently to April 24, 2012? The meditation group may have invited him to attend a 3-day session in a mountain retreat at high elevation. They would have advised him to hike up to Namche Bazaar for acclimatization purposes, then perhaps they would have provided a helicopter ride to the retreat.
ZS likely would have expected to be back in Namche on the 27th April, but possibly the helicopter never returned, leaving him stranded in the wilderness with the group.
One suggestion might be to try contacting helicopter pilots who work in the Himalayas. If GV runs a compound in Rolwaling, they would likely notice the traffic, as well as the design and make of the helicopters.
GV seems to be politically connected. Many countries including the US have used their 10-day class in prisons; easy government money for the group.
How do they get those connections? Perhaps they bluebug all the electronics of the 10-day students, and monitor conversations to discover which students have ties to people with political or business influence. And, then, just as other cults do, they follow those particular individuals, and try to persuade them, or even coerce them into joining or supporting their group.
My guess would be that ZS himself made the call from Myanmar.
