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...SENTENCED. SHER BAHADUR DEUBA, 59, former Prime Minister of Nepal; to two years in prison for embezzlement; in Kathmandu. After Nepal's King Gyanendra seized power this February, he established a controversial corruption commission that charged Deuba with involvement in a $5.3 million fraudulent deal to award a road construction contract. Deuba has denounced the verdict as "political assassination" and has vowed to fight his conviction. He is the highest-ranking Nepalese leader ever to be found guilty of corruption...
...CLEARED. SHER BAHADUR DEUBA, 59, Nepal's former Prime Minister; of corruption charges; by the Royal Commission for Corruption Control (R.C.C.C.); in Kathmandu. Six other former ministers were cleared of similar charges. Deuba was sacked in February when King Gyanendra seized power and accused him of failing to put down Nepal's bloody nine-year Maoist rebellion. Arrested in April after he refused to be questioned by the R.C.C.C., Deuba remains in police custody pending a decision on a separate embezzlement charge...
...King or the Maoists, because they are not the prime causes of the discord. The only way that the parliamentary processes can be revived is for party leaders to hand over leadership to the younger and more competent generation. Democracy cannot be synonymous with anarchy and whim. Rishav Shrestha Kathmandu...
...government bureaucracy functions more efficiently. Additionally, corruption is being rooted out. Sometimes a benevolent dictator is required to govern the less developed. If King Gyanendra turns out to be benevolent, he will be remembered in history as the father of modern Nepal. Give him a chance. F.A. Hutchison Kathmandu...
...LIFTED. STATE OF EMERGENCY, by Nepal's King Gyanendra, three months after he dissolved the government and suspended civil liberties in a move widely condemned by human-rights groups and foreign governments; in Kathmandu. Despite the end of emergency rule, the King will maintain the controversial Royal Commission for Corruption Control, which last week arrested former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba amid alleged irregularities in multi-million dollar drinking-water contracts awarded during his tenure. Mr. Deuba has denied the charges, calling the Commission "unconstitutional" and "illegal...