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...capitulating to popular protests by restoring Nepal's parliament - an announcement that put an end to a nineteen-day cycle of protests, curfews, tear gas, rubber bullets and several deaths - the people of this ancient town of temples and palaces, which was once the capital of a medieval kingdom of Nepal, are offering thanks to the gods...
...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 monarch, is keeping his kingdom in the Dark Ages. "Everybody feels Nepal is being left behind," he says, as a Royal Nepalese Army helicopter buzzes overhead...
...next evening, the King seemed to partly agree. In a brief televised address to the nation, Gyanendra offered to return "executive power of the kingdom of Nepal ... to the people," and asked the seven main political parties to nominate a Prime Minister, a position that he had suspended. But the King's statement was short on specifics. There was no mention of restoring Parliament, suspended for four years, of making changes to the constitution to prevent him seizing power again, or of surrendering command of the powerful army-demands that his political opponents had been making for months. The response...
...Nepal, Himalayan kingdom, home to Mount Everest, backpacker heaven, is a nation in crisis. A country of around 25 million people, Nepal used to have three centers of power: the King, the political parties, and a rebel Maoist army holed up in the mountains. Now there's a fourth: an angry population fed up with the other three and determined to strip all power from a monarchy that has reigned for more than two centuries. Gyanendra is supposed to be only a constitutional ruler. He inherited the throne when his nephew, Crown Prince Dipendra, shot dead King Birendra and eight...
...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 to compromise-and welcomed his Friday statement. Gyanendra's offer, said Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna, "should now pave the way for restoration of political stability...