Nepal palace massacre
Yoshie Furuhashi
furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Mon Jun 18 05:54:15 PDT 2001
>A Commission consisting of the Chief Justice and the Speaker of the
>Parliament has now issued a report. It repeats the incredible story that
>the crown prince (frustrated in his desire to marry the girl he loved),
>while drunk and stoned massacred his entire immediate family. But the
>report does not deal with how the crown prince himself was killed, an
>omission that discredits the entire exercise, since it has been reported
>that his wounds were either in his back or in his left temple (he was
>right handed).
>
>The right wing communists, the Communist Party of Nepal (United
>Marxist-Leninist) - normally referred to as the UML or the "mailais" -
>who form the official opposition in the parliament to the Nepali
>Congressi government, announced yesterday that after a review of the
>commission's work that they have "taken the report in a positive note."
>But according to the quite reactionary South China Post, lots of Nepalis
>are not going along with the official script.
>
>john mage
Is the widespread disbelief of the official "explanations" a chance
for the Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) to expand their influence to
urban areas?
Yoshie
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