Nepe - I am neither interested to know about you nor any explanation about republicanism. I am just curious to know why you are so much miser to write against Maoists attrocities whereas you are always in the forefront to mention even a nonsignificant incident of national army. If you talk about democracy then your views should represent the majority of Nepalese people back home who are suffering from Maoists problem. You should not become spokeperson of handful of corrupt leaders whose credibility have been lost due to: 1) their inability to hold general election when they were in power, 2) thier involvement in corruption, 3) their duel role in addressing Maoists problem, 4) their shaky stand on future of monarchy 5) their hesitancy to participate in upcoming election, and 6) their inability to mobilize the mass. Merely protesting the King, RNA and other security forces is not a means and ways to solve nation's problem. If you do not believ on Maoists kind of republicanism then that is fine, but in that case you should be able to tell what is the best way to solve this problem? If you belive that, by sidelining RNA and King, Maoists can be brought in to mainstream then you are probably too much optimistic. They have waged the war since last 10 years and they have started this when the government was run by a party which was enjoying majority in the parliament. Maoists are too much clever, if you minus the security forces (while not forcing Maoists rebels to disarm) then they will kick your political leaders easily and introduce communist form of republicanism. May be instead of getting your wise ideas, I tried to write more. Bottomline is that republicanism is not a priority of ordinary people back home (may be it is yours' and anti-monarqi"s priority in the USA as you don't have to suffer anything from Maoists problem here in USA), Maoists problem is the main problem and all efforts must be concentrated to solve this problem. To achieve this all must unite, and all elements of national power must be utilized in concentrated manner. If your efforts in 16 Sep should focused on these lines, then only we can believe that you are fighting for ordinary Nepalese people, otherwise you are just fighting for the cause of .....