It is unimaginable as to how a person under drunken spell who can't take out his clothes on his own and has already vomited could collect that much of strength and courage as to suddenly change the dress on his own and carry such heavy lethal weapons and shoots his entire family members after travelling some distance from his personal shelter?

 

Teligraph, Kathmandu, Nepal June 20, 2001

CJ report nothing more than compilations of events of June 1 massacre!

Kathmandu: The anxiously awaited report submitted by the Royal Probe Commission headed by Chief Justice Keshav Prasad Upadhyaya last week instead of convincing the lay men regarding the reasons behind the massacre of June 1 at the Royal Palace has compounded the whole affair through contradictory statements contained there in the report.

The report thus could only be called as the compilation of the events as seen by the eyewitnesses.

To cut it short, the Nepali population finds it very difficult to digest the theory that Crown Prince Dipendra was the man who summarily wiped out his own family members first and later shot down other royal relatives.

Consider the report, which at one point says that Crown Prince Dipendra was heavily drunk and hence four persons carried him to his shelter. The report also admits that Dipendra used the bathroom for vomiting whose sound some of the attendants heard. It also says that Dipendra was lying unconscious on the carpet and was seen making efforts to take out his clothes of the upper portion of the body. The report finally concludes that it was Crown Prince Dipendra who later within minutes came out in combat dress with four heavy lethal weapons and indiscriminately fired at his father and the rest of the relatives.

It is unimaginable as to how a person under drunken spell who can't take out his clothes on his own and has already vomited could collect that much of strength and courage as to suddenly change the dress on his own and carry such heavy lethal weapons and shoots his entire family members after travelling some distance from his personal shelter?

We are told that a drunken person prefers sleep. We are also told that a person after vomiting again would wish to go to the bed. We are yet again told that a person under heavy intoxication of the sort of Crown Prince Dipendra becomes pretty weak who finds it difficult to stand on his own. Question arises now how Dipendra could gain Himalayan courage and where from he collected that much of the strength which enabled him to withstand the entire load of the four weapons which total some where about thirty to forty kilos?

Question also arises as to why Princes Shobha Shahi did not allow King Birendra to fire at Crown Prince Dipendra when the latter had already fired the first shot at the former? This means that had King Birendra been given the opportunity, he would have subsided or even reduced the number of killings inside the Palace on that fateful evening.

The report very mysteriously does not touch upon the figure that could impress upon the doctors at the said hospital not to go for any sort of post mortem? In our opinion, this was very important.

The report in essence compiles the version of the incident from the survivors of that tragedy who summarily converge and accuse Crown Prince Dipendra. How could thirty different brains say almost the same thing.

Forensic and medical experts opine that had the post mortem of the dead bodies carried out, the killer could have been easily traced through the tests of the blood, hairs and the likes.

More horrible was the manner in which the report was presented before the weeping population.

Speaker Tara Nath Rana Bhat took the whole affair as if it were a gathering of politicians at his private residence wherein he wished to impose his version of the scheme of things to the attending media men.

The irresponsible manner in which he submitted the details of the ghastly killing was simply unacceptable.

In essence, the TV watching population lost their temper the laughing manner Speaker Bhat tried to explain the whole event last Thursday evening. The whole affair was yet another shock to the nation in the fashion the honorable Speaker very lightly took the event that visibly made the entire nation to go in for a state of sleeplessness for at least two weeks.

The report in essence should have answered all the W's! Should we expect yet another probe Commission to get the answers of yet unresolved mystery behind the killing?

Democratic rights to be curtailed?

Kathmandu: Hardly had the Nepali citizens come out of the trauma caused by the killing of the Nepali Royales on June 1, 2001, Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has been kind enough to put onto the heads of the common men yet another shock that has come in the form of enactment of some laws and the rules that practically caps all the existing privileges the people had been enjoying in democratic system.

The stringent draconian measures have already come into effect since June 4 last month which interestingly coincides with the date when His Majesty King Gyanendra had been declared the King of this Himalayan Kingdom.

The measures now brought into effect will henceforth not permit the political parties or for that matter groups or associations to come out in the streets demanding the redressal of their grievances and the likes.

Some newspapers guess the new restrictive rules brought by Prime Minister Koirala were solely to defame the new King.

The General Security Laws and regulations", as it is called is aimed at containing the threats of the Maoists.

This law now summarily restricts the citizens to gather at a place without weapons, expression of one's views freely and also caps the rights of coming into the streets, The law also does not allow for calling a Nepal closure.

In essence, if this law comes into total effect, it would remind many a brains to have been the revival of the erstwhile regime.

Constitutional experts say that the new laws and regulations brought into effect by the government would end the beauty of the democratic system.

However, the competent political forces currently active in national politics, other than the ruling party indeed, are yet to furnish their comments regarding this new draconian measure of the government.

Staunch democrats expect that various sectors would react to these new overtures of the government.

Critics say that Girija Prasad has almost revived the good old days of the Panchayat through the enactment of the laws which are generally considered not fit for a system what we have now.