[pf] Nepal news, from someone on-the-spot.

· This was sent to one person on GreenNews-NZ, Tuesday night.  D.

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Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 19:28:40 +1200
From: Rosalie Steward
To: GN-GreenViews <gN@greenLists.org.nz>
Subject: [GN]personal account from Nepal

Hi everyone,  this came through via a friend:

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Subject: The truth from Nepal - all hell is breaking loose
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 9:35 PM

MOnday June 4.  Anniversary of Tianman Square massacre

Dear Friends -

Today is a dark day in the history of the world and about to become darker.
 Friday night the entire royal family of Nepal and their body guards were
brutally murdered in cold blood at the regular friday night family
gathering. ( this included the 9 month old princess)  What has been
reported as a family squabble  with the crown prince killing
everyone and then shooting himself , and even a gun going off by itself
(somehow killing 30+ people, some of whom were not in the same room?!) are
outright lies.    Immediately the royals were burned, much sooner than
would be normal practice.  The crown prince, the supposed killer, was made
king while lying brain dead.

Ironically, the king's brother, Gyanendra was out of town.  At the same
time his nephew, Paresh, a known murderer  of at least 5 people(!) was in
the place .  So was the king's other brother Direndra, who has been living
in London since  1990 and has been estranged from the royal family.  Both
brothers are criminals who have been involved with stealing and selling the
antiquities of Nepal, drugs selling, and who knows what else.  Both
brothers vehemently were against democracy in Nepal and there was a huge
fight between them all when King Birendra gave up the powers of the
Monarchy in 1990 and declared a democracy for Nepal.  It has long been
known that Gyanendra has had a CIA link as well as ties to the government
of India.   What those connections are in this whole affair remains to be
seen. There are no secrets in Nepal!

Since Saturday most people have known the prince was dead even though the
official news was saying otherwise.  People knew they were being lied to
but they were in shock so the streets were fairly quiet for 2 days.  But as
early as saturday afternoon, crowds were gathering outside the palace and
at the funeral chanting, "Kill the criminals, Kill Gyanendra. "  In the
meantime, more and more inside news was leaking out and it was fast
becoming clear that this was a carefully orchestrated plot by at least the
2 brothers and nephew to seize control of Nepal.

This morning, the prince was officially declared dead.  One hour later, as
I am writing this, Gyanendra has just been crowned king with full regalia,
the Prime Minister and political leaders standing mutely by.  Clearly this
was all planned WELL in advance to be able to pull this off so quickly!
And clearly the Prime Minister is either afraid to say anything or else is
in collusion. And Paresh has already been sent to London for safety.

I can hear the shouts of crowds in the street heading toward the palace.
People are furious that Gyanendra,  murderer of his own family and their
king, has  now been made king.   And this anger has been building for a
long time as a totally corrupt government has been running this country
into the ground since the advent of "democracy" in 1990.

The army is in the street along with hundreds of thousands of people, roads
are closed, and no one knows what will happen.  We fear a blood bath as
Gyanendra  now controls the army. The lastest report from a friend on the
street is  that tear gas is being fired into the crowds.

Democracy was struggling in Nepal, at best, but now it is sure to die a
swift death.

Perhaps it doesn't matter to you what happens in this far away tiny
country, so unrelated to your own lives. But at least you can know the
truth and tell others so these people will not have died in vain. If you
have a computer, go to Nepalnews.com.np and click on NepaliTimes  - it is
our most radical paper we have though we don't yet know if they will be
brave enough to print the truth.

I have no idea will become of me and other foreigners  here. Only time will
tell.  It's pretty frightening right now and hopefully they will not target
us in their frustration but go after the real criminals now holding the power.

Please pass this on to others so the world knows what is really happening
here, or at least as far as we can figure out.  But please don't believe
the foreign press!

Pray for us all
cynthia [Cynthia Edwards <.-.-.@wlink.com.np>

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David. {Abramowitz (WashPost): ask me for Rosalie's address.}
(David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz 
http://www.geocities.com/davd.geo/index.html#top
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