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Increasing violence in disorders against the King of Nepal: internal flights suspended

Katmandu, Nepal - Three dead and 40 injured people in yesterday demonstrations

Nepal situation is getting worse and worse and the protest against King Gyanendra harder and harder. A coalition of seven parties, allied to Maoist rebels, asks for abdication of the king, who assumed command in 2005 dissolving the Parliament and imprisoning his opponents. Gyanendra justified his acts saying that the executive power had not stopped Maoist guerrillas riot, which has made 13,000 victims...

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Rome, Italy, 04/21/2006 11:59
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