King Of Nepal Surrenders Absolute Power

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Just read it: King of Nepal has surrendered absolute power.

They are going to have elections.

Now wait for the other shoe to drop; the Maoists unhappy with open elections.....But this is GODD NEWS.



munk
 
Fingers crossed, and also prayers/smoke up from the ATL.
 
Excelent! fingers crossed!

I Hope its not just another Kings statement to keep the western politicians happy?

He sometimes does that.

time will tell.

Spiral
 
I hope that this true, and that he actually does cede power. Has the UN stepped in to mediate? Not that it would do much good...
 
Not Yet Brother " Nepalease people can breath fress air of democracy.
!! King has not yet hand over the power to the people.
Might take few more days...Let's keep our fingure cross....
Thank You,
Gyanendra Gurung
 
Gyanendra said:
Not Yet Brother " Nepalease people can breath fress air of democracy.
!! King has not yet hand over the power to the people.
Might take few more days...Let's keep our fingure cross....
Thank You,
Gyanendra Gurung
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Welcome! Where are you located? Yes, we need to keep our fingers crossed on the King following through on his promises.
Smoke and prayers from Boise

Dick
 
Gyanendra said:
Not Yet Brother " Nepalease people can breath fress air of democracy.
!! King has not yet hand over the power to the people.
Might take few more days...Let's keep our fingure cross....
Thank You,
Gyanendra Gurung
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Welcome to the Cantina! I hope you have a long, enjoyable stay. We certainly will pray for the best in Nepal.
 
Is Gyanendra a common Nepalese(sp?) name? It's the same as the kings. Must make life a little odd right now for Gyanendras' actually in Nepal.
 
Hi Bill,
My internet is out most of the time for the last couple days so I have to make this very brief...

Gurung is a common sur name. Gyanendra is just a first name.

We are under curfew again today... the King didn't go far enough yesterday so they are trying to let him know... this morning there were processions around town so the authorities called another curfew. Lame.

Gotta run.

Steve
 
Gyanendra is also the King's name.



Today the Communists were fighting the police in Nepal, protesting, saying they would not accept the King's turn towards democracy.

munk
 
I hear the opposition leaders said he hasn't gone far enough. Apparently, he hasn't let them make a constitution. But still, this is a step in the right direction, and I am so very glad to hear of it. I hope people will now do what's right and figure out that democracy would be the best future for Nepal, and that the senseless bloodshed must cease. And I hope they realize that those Maoists really don't have their best interests at heart.

Chris
 
Good to hear, let's hope the Maoists calm down and things can get smoothed over right quick-like.
 
The king has made lots of promises in the past. The issue is really whether he turns over power to anyone.
He promised he would restore democracy years ago. It hasn't happened yet.
The police were shooting protesters in the streets again, so actions and words do not always agree.

The army took over from elected officials in Burma in 1995, and the elected president is still under house arrest there.

We can always hope.

If there were oil in Nepal, we would have been there 3 years ago.
 
I hear in Kathamando its rather scary today.{My Nepali friend has never said that before.}

The Nepali population wouldnt welcome Forign soldiers I think. There a proud race.

The Indian army does have around 100,000 Nepali solders though. Gorkhas, Assam Rifles, Bodyguard units etc.}

Spiral
 
Out of all the revolutions in the past millenium, how many were completely peaceful?

Change hurts. Hopefully the results will be worth the pain. I'm sending some smoke up for Nepal today, just in case.
 
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