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...against Pyongyang in no uncertain words, those in Seoul have exhibited criminal indifference to heinous and unnecessary suffering. Good people doing nothing? They cannot even be called good. Hancho C. Kim Seoul Obsolete Monarchy Re your thought-provoking report "Battle of Wills" [May 1] on the political turmoil in Nepal: The country is one of the poorest in the world, and its people have suffered a lot. Their anger is targeted at not only King Gyanendra but also the entire edifice of monarchy, an anachronism in the present day. Gyanendra should follow the example of contemporary royals who are confined...
...Murder in the Court Last month Nepal's King Gyanendra agreed to reinstate the country's parliament, ending weeks of violent pro-democracy protests but not the monarchy's political crisis. TIME's June 11, 2001, issue related the shocking massacre of members of the Nepalese royal family by Crown Prince Dipendra, pictured, the event that brought Gyanendra to the throne...
VIRUS BEATERS Across Nepal 50,000 mothers, most of them illiterate, battled measles by delivering medicine and going door to door to publicize vaccinations at clinics. Result? The number of Nepal's measles-related deaths dropped 90% last year...
Four years after it was dissolved, Nepal's Parliament re-opened on Friday with two minutes of silence commemorating the 14 protesters killed during the weeks of bloody protests against King Gyanendra that finally forced him to relinquish power on April 24. It was a historic occasion, but given how contentious Nepalese politics remain, it may also be the last time for awhile that the halls of Parliament display such tranquility...
...constitution, which could eventually allow the people to decide the fate of the unpopular King. Many observers worry that the Maoists, who announced a three-month ceasefire last week, will never settle for anything less than a pure republic. But with the rebels operating across large parts of Nepal, the new government may have no choice but to cooperate. "The fact that the Maoists have got guns makes it all the more imperative that the new government try and deal with them," says Rhoderick Chalmers of the International Crisis Group. "They have to be brought into the mainstream." The Maoists...