While the father of one of the dead said the teenagers were coming home from a sleepover at a friend's house, the mother of another boy killed said that her son and his best friend had lied about staying over at each other's homes that evening.
And it goes without saying that we wouldn't be seen dead on those ridiculously small bikes popular with teenagers, which are designed for performing undignified tricks.
Elsewhere, in Palpa in the south-west, three teenagers following a tradition of raising money for a Hindu festival on March 24th were shot dead when they approached a car carrying plain-clothes soldiers.
Already, the army has tarnished its modest battlefield success by routinely inflating the number of enemy dead, and making a triumphant and gruesome display of any guerrilla corpses it finds, many of them women and teenagers.