FROM INSEC.ORG TODAY:Crown prince Paras vandalized police headquarters,
>beat up three police IGPs
>
>INSN, Kathmandu/Delhi, December 3, 2005. According to very reliable sources
>in Kathmandu, Crown Prince Paras Shah vandalized Nepal Police headquarters
>at Naxal, Kathmandu and beat up three Inspector Generals of Police (IGPs)
>this afternoon. He reportedly accused them of not being able to provide
>security to him yesterday as he was on his way to the airport to receive
>his father Gyanendra who returned from a lengthy visit to Africa.
>
>Violence erupted yesterday afternoon in Kathmandu after a group of
>pro-monarchy vigilantes attacked demonstrators at New Baneshwor who were
>particpating in a mammoth yet peaceful pro-democracy demonstration
>organized by the Communist Party of Nepal (UML). The enraged demostrators
>retaliated by pelting stones at the royalist vigilantes. The police used
>force against the pro-democracy activist while providing security to the
>royalist vigilantes. The angry demonstrators also pelted stones at the
>security convoy that passed through the road while the clash was taking
>place, to receive the royal couple at the international airport. Paras Shah
>was also on his way to receive the royal couple, protected by the security
>convoy.
>
>Paras reportedly went to the police headqaurters around noon today, banged
>his car on the main gate, enteterd into the compound, called up the IGP of
>the Janpath Nepal Police Shyam Bhakta Thapa at his own office, broke
>chairs, and slapped him on his face several times. He then reportedly
>ordered the IGPs of the Armed Police Force and the National Investigation
>Department to report themselves imemdiately Nepal Police headquarters,
>lined them up, shouted at them and slapped all of them on their face and
>kicked them several times. Reportedly, he did this in full view of other
>police officers and personnel. He was reportedly, repeatedly asking them,
>â??What if the stones had hit me? I could have died. Why did you not
>provide security?â??
>
>Paras also reportedly assaulted a Colonel of the Roayl Nepal Army, in
>charge of the security convoy yesterday.
>
>The three police IGPs have reportedly complained about the insulting
>behaviour of the prince to the king, but have not made public the details
>of the incident.
>
>Several major media houses in Kathmandu have reportedly confirmed with the
>police sources about the incident. But fearing action by the royals, they
>have not carried the news yet, at the time of writing this report (7:30
>pm).
>
>Some human rights activists and journalists in Kathmandu expressed the fear
>with INSN that a few dozen civilians arrested by the police after the
>incident yesterady may be tortured or even disappeared. Immediately after
>the incident, the police randomly arrested people from the surrounding
>area, accusing them of engaging in violence. The government has not made
>public the list of the people arrested, let alone their whereabouts as yet.
>
>It is publicly known in Nepal that prince Paras has murdered and asslauted
>people several times in the past, before he became the Crown Prince, and
>has assualted journalists and businessmen after becoming the Crown Prince.
>
>Posted under General, Torture, Illegal detention, Royal Coup, NEWS,
>EXCLUSIVE on Saturday 3 December 2005 at 7:59 pm
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>Comment by Anonymous â?? 12/3/2005 @ 8:12 pm
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