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Nepal's pro-democracy protests gain strength PRINT FRIENDLY EMAIL STORY
PM - Friday, 21 April , 2006 18:18:00
Reporter: Brendan Trembath
MARK COLVIN: Tension's been getting higher by the day in the mountain kingdom of Nepal with a curfew and shoot-on-sight orders announced in the capital, Kathmandu.

Three people were killed during protests against the monarchy yesterday. Today people were ordered off the streets after political parties announced they would hold fresh protests and try to march on the palace.

King Gyanendra is facing his biggest test of public confidence since he took the throne in 2001 - that was after the murder of his older brother in a palace massacre.

Rhoderick Chalmers from the International Crisis Group is in Kathmandu.

He told Brendan Trembath that the latest pro-democracy protests probably signalled the end of the King's direct rule.

RHODERICK CHALMERS: I think we can now say with some confidence that the days of the King's direct rule are nearing their end. He's already lost control of most of the country.

Let's not forget this is now more than two weeks that there's been a nation-wide general strike which has been held solidly.

And apart from Kathmandu, where we all tend to focus, there have been vast demonstrations day in, day out, around the country, in regional headquarters, in some of the most rural areas, the security forces are for the time being just about holding the line. But even they have realised that the public mood has tilted very decisively against the monarchy.

Now, there's a chance the King could yet salvage some sort of ceremonial role for the monarchy and preserve the institution, but time is very tight. If he doesn't manage to hand over power unambiguously to the democratic parties, it's very hard to see a future for the monarchy.

BRENDAN TREMBATH: Yet you talk about it as an institution, which it certainly has been in Nepal, a revered institution. How has such a revered institution lost the support of many people?

RHODERICK CHALMERS: Well, I think you've hit the nail on the head with your question there. The monarchy is an institution but it's characterised by the person on the throne.

And until 2001, under the last King Gyanendra, there was a reasonably solid accommodation between the monarchy and democratic parties and he was a much-loved man who had earned a great deal of popular respect, which translated into a great image for the monarchy as an institution.

Now, after the palace massacre that saw him and all of his family wiped out, Gyanendra took from the outset a very different line. He said I'm not going to be silent like my brother.

He's implied that his brother was a weak man who gave in too easily to democratic protests and made it clear that he would play an active role and seek to lead the country.

Well, he went and did that, he took control of the country directly, he abolished all democratic institutions, locked up hundreds of politicians, human rights activists, writers, and of course, therefore now stands squarely to blame for the problems besetting the country. There's no prime minister in between, there's no government to speak of.

Here's the man in charge and people now see that he has delivered nothing but increased chaos, a strengthened Maoist insurgency, and ever more distant prospects for peace.

BRENDAN TREMBATH: What is the international community doing in an attempt to resolve this situation without more violence?

RHODERICK CHALMERS: Well, much of the world has effectively given a de facto lead to India, Nepal's large neighbour to the south, to make its own efforts first.

India sent a special envoy of the Prime Minister to Kathmandu, he met the King yesterday morning and instead of staying on today, as was scheduled, he headed straight back to Delhi, to deliver what I gather was a fairly grim message that the King still didn't appear to have understood the gravity of the situation and was still hoping to put together some sort of a cosmetic compromise that could mean him retaining a large degree of real power.

BRENDAN TREMBATH: Your group, the International Crisis Group, suggests sanctions could be used to put pressure on the Government. What sort of sanctions are you talking about?

RHODERICK CHALMERS: One would be simply a full travel ban on members of the royal family, ministers and others in key positions in the current regime.

What that would mean is simply not allowing them to get visas to visit western countries, not allowing them to have any protocol interactions with foreign governments, so putting the squeeze on them politically and personally. That can be done very easily, it doesn't involve any of the complications that came with the Iraq sanctions.

On the second front we've also suggested investigating the assets held by the royal family and others overseas. Now one of the features of the King's direct rule has been a looting of the state coffers.

Billions of rupees have been taken out of miscellaneous budgets that were meant to be allocated for development work and have gone… well, disappeared presumably into the hands of the King and his cronies.

A lot of that money is being stored overseas, we suspect, so the US, the UK and others have the capacity to start investigating where that money is.

MARK COLVIN: Rhoderick Chalmers from the International Crisis Group speaking from Kathmandu to Brendan Trembath