- Title: NEPAL: SILENT PROTES IN KATHMANDU AGAINST KING'S RULE
- Date: 2nd June 2005
- Summary: (W2) KATHMANDU, NEPAL (JUNE 2, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF PEOPLE, HANDCUFFED AND WITH THEIR MOUTHS COVERED, LYING ON THE STREETS IN A MOCK PROTEST 0.034 2. SLV PEOPLE LYING ON GROUND IN PROTEST 0.09 3. SCU A MAN SPEAKING INTO MICROPHONE 0.17 4. SLV PHOTOGRAPHERS TAKING PICTURES OF PROTEST 0.20 5. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WITH EYES AND MOUTH COVERED 0.24 6. VARIOUS OF HANDCUFFED WOMAN WITH EYES AND MOUTH COVERED AND FEET CHAINED TOGETHER 0.40 7. CLOSE OF PROTESTOR WITH CARD READING "ROYAL DEMOCRACY" 0.43 8. SLV DEMONSTRATION WITH PEOPLE CHAINED TOGETHER 0.51 9. SLV THREE MEN CHAINED TOGETHER 0.54 10. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WALKING ON THE ROAD, WITH EYES AND MOUTH COVERED AND HANDCUFFED 1.11 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: KATHMANDU, NEPAL
- Country: Nepal
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- Story Text: Silent protest marks the streets of Nepal against
the King's rule.
Hundreds of Nepalis held a silent protest on the
streets of Nepal's capital Kathmandu on Thursday (June 2, 2005)
demanding the reinstatement of multi-party democracy.
The protestors, which included women, covered their eyes
and mouths and were handcuffed in a mock demonstration of a
prisoner.
The protestors carried placards reading "royal democracy
is a sham". No arrests were made during the protest.
On February 1, King Gyanendra assumed all executive
power, jailed leading political figures and instituted a
draconian state of emergency saying the government had
failed to quell the insurgency by Maoist guerrillas. He
promised to hold parliamentary elections within three years
and hand over power to an elected government but still
retains sweeping powers.
Most arrested leaders were released and state of
emergency was withdrawn on April 29, two days before it was
due to expire, but the king retains sweeping powers.
The Maoists, inspired by the preachings of Chinese
leader Mao Zedong, have been fighting since 1996 for a
communist republic in the impoverished Himalayan nation,
crippling the economy.
More than 12,000 people have been killed and tens of
thousands forced to flee their homes to escape the fighting.
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