Democracy??? freedom of speech: ...remember gyanendra khadka... the journalist was who murdered by the maoists....remember the president of the maoists victims association who was gunned down. right to security: people were either killed by RNA or the Maoists right to own property: maoists were busy consficating land from landowners. access to judiciary: people were kidnapped by RNA or Maoists and were kept in detention for periods more than 3 months, in some cases they were not before a judge. elections: leaders were shit scared to go for elections, because they didnt want to turn up dead like thousands of their party workers. they also knew they were very very unpopular. parliment: deuba dissolved parliment in a show of upmanship against girija. judiciary: toooooo slowwww to do anything..... Corruption: without paying money under the table the files in the ministry didnt move fwd. so the king didnt usurp any system.....he usurped a broken system