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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's King Gyanendra, facing sweeping anti-monarchy protests, said on Friday he was handing over political power to the people and asked a seven-party alliance to choose a new prime minister.
"There was no immediate reaction from the parties which have spearheaded more than two weeks of violent protests to force the restoration of democracy."
It wasn't the demonstrators who made these demonstrations violent--it was the security police.
No front-page coverage of this historic democratic overthrow in our local papers--Have to wonder why. Guess they don't want us to thinking about people power.
SIRATYST (Stuff I Read and Thought You Should Too) -- “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” (Calgacus, as quoted by Tacitus, Agricola 30-31)"
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