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...eyewitness to the murders, Rajiv Shahi, son-in-law of Birendra's brother, went before the press last week to tell what he saw. TIME has contacted two other survivors who corroborate nearly every detail of Rajiv's story: that Crown Prince Dipendra entered the suite of rooms and cold-bloodedly gunned down his parents, brother, sister and five other relatives. The other witnesses are both uncles of Dipendra. Ravi, a widower, was married to a daughter of the late King Tribhuvan. Maheshwar Kumar Singh, 66, is married to another daughter of Tribhuvan. None of the three witnesses...
...guests were on time. The younger set included Dipendra and his cousin Prince Paras (who should have been named as Crown Prince when his father was crowned King Gyanendra?but pointedly was not). An open question is why Dipendra departed so early, 45 minutes after the guests arrived. Rajiv has said Dipendra was "very intoxicated," and that's why he was escorted home and deposited in his bedroom by his brother Rajiv and Paras. But his uncle Ravi disagrees, saying Dipendra got him a drink, seemed sober?and even claimed not to be drinking because there was no Grouse whiskey...
...without any sign of intoxication. At the first burst of fire, "I instinctively plugged my ears with my fingers and closed my eyes," recalls Maheshwar. Opening his eyes, he found the King "had a very strange look on his face, and then he began to lean to the right." Rajiv, a medical doctor, rushed over from a corner and tended to the fallen King, as did Maheshwar. Ravi, a retired general, did not think these first wounds were fatal...
...Indians are sick of corruption in government, but they've also learned to accept it as a fact of life. But what still gets people very angry is when guns and graft come together. That's viewed as venality that compromises national security. The late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi suffered a humiliating electoral defeat in 1989 after he was accused of accepting kickbacks from a howitzer deal with Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors. The Bofors scandal still haunts the Congress Party...
...somebody wants to kill you." And it's not as if 34-year-old Bashar has exactly coveted the job, telling anyone who'd listen until a few months ago that he harbored no presidential ambitions. But in a scenario eerily reminiscent of India's Gandhi family - in which Rajiv found greatness thrust upon him after Indira's preferred heir, Sanjay, died in a plane crash - Bashar may have had no choice after his elder brother, Basil, died in a car crash. Like Rajiv Gandhi, Bashar had been educated in Britain before returning home to reluctantly fill a deceased parent...