Nepal: Political Crisis Deepens

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | April 18th, 2006 | Trackback

The political crisis between the king and a coalition of opposition parties and Maoists is growing more dangerous. Police fired on demonstrators in Chandragadi, some 310 miles southeast of Kathmandu, on April 19, killing four. In Kathmandu, authorities imposed an 18-hour curfew in and around Kathmandu April 20 in an effort to stop a massive demonstration. Demonstrations occurred in Thamel, the tourist district in the heart of the city April 17, with riot police reluctant to put down the protest but arresting four. In Pokhara, a popular tourist city in the west, authorities imposed a daylong curfew April 19 after two weeks of daily protests, and ordered the military to shoot violators on sight. Supplies of food and other necessities have grown short in Kathmandu.

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