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Rohit Bhandari isn't a natural rebel. He has a good job as a technician in a Kathmandu medical laboratory and is the son of a bureaucrat and mid-level leader for Nepal's pro-monarchy Rashtriya Prajatantra Party. And yet Bhandari, 26, found himself in a mob of thousands last week demanding "King Gyanendra, leave the country, or we will kill you," part of a tide of violent protests ripping across the mountain kingdom. Bhandari isn't sure why he is risking his life, beyond an unformed belief in "freedom" and a burning sense that Gyanendra, Nepal's absolute...
Rohit Bhandari isn't a natural rebel. He has a good job as a technician in a Kathmandu medical laboratory and is the son of a bureaucrat and mid-level leader for Nepal's pro-monarchy Rashtriya Prajatantra Party. And yet Bhandari, 26, found himself in a mob of thousands last Thursday shouting, "King Gyanendra, leave the country or we will kill you," part of a tide of violent protests ripping across the mountain kingdom. Bhandari isn't sure why he's risking his life, beyond an unformed belief in "freedom" and a burning sense that Gyanendra, Nepal's absolute...
...live up to his pledges. Instead, he locked up thousands of politicians, human-rights activists, journalists and students, while doing little to stop the Maoists. He almost reveled in his disdain for public opinion-H.M. KING GYANENDRA DOES NOT SEEK CHEAP POPULARITY, reads a propaganda billboard in central Kathmandu. Last fall the opposition parties entered into a loose alliance with the Maoists and began a program of mass protests as the rebels enforced national strikes, a campaign they planned to climax on April...
...away before medical teams could arrive. Bhandhari says the parties and the Maoists are trying to claim credit for the movement, but it's beyond either's control. "This is the people," he says. Nepalese of all persuasions have joined in the protests. Police have arrested lawyers in Kathmandu and professors in the resort town of Pokhara. In the capital, 25 civil servants at the Home Ministry shouted slogans at their desks demanding the King's ousting...
...shirts who have no leader, no organization and few goals beyond throwing rocks at authority figures. Cars, shops and the Hyatt Regency Hotel have all been attacked in the past weeks. "There is no mechanism in place to create a new government," says Ohashi. "The Maoists could walk into Kathmandu by default." At the very least, says the friend of the royals, "Autocracy would switch to anarchy." It's a scenario that Nepal's neighbor, India, which has an open border with the kingdom, particularly fears. Earlier last week, New Delhi dispatched two envoys to Kathmandu to persuade Gyanendra...