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- Comparisons Between Recent U.S.-Backed Coups: Caracas and Kathmandu-by Wayne Madsen at http://www.monthlyreview.org/0902madsen.htm - HIGHLIGHTS: On June 1st, 2001, King Birendra, his wife and all his children, were assassinated. His younger brother, Gyanendra, was conveniently absent from the from the palace at the time of the massacre of all those who were ahead of him in succession to the throne. At first, Gyanendra and Prime Minister Girija Koirala announced that the worst royal massacre since the assassination of the Romanovs of Russia in 1917 had been caused by an automatic weapon that had gone off by itself. Soon, the explanation for the massacre was changed to a story befitting any Hollywood script. It was then announced that the King's oldest son, Crown Prince Dipendra, had murdered his entire family and then shot himself because his mother had forbidden him to marry a commoner. The new King Gyanendra's only son, Paras, an unpopular brute, was at the palace during the slaughter but managed to survive without so much as a scratch. Gyanendra himself has long been a CIA and U.S. corporate stooge. For example, he has a relationship with Henry Kissinger that goes back to the 1970s and the Ford administration. On the other hand, King Birendra wanted to open peace negotiations with the rebels and was also known to be a stauch anti-Indian Nepali nationalist..
The CIA's Death Squad Body Count Continues to Pile Up- Wayne Madsen - AT - http://cryptome.org/bush-kills.htm
HIGHLIGHTS: Today, a former U.S. intelligence asset, Dr. Jonas Savimbi, was killed by Angolan Army units in eastern Angola. His is the sixth major assassination of a political leader since Bush unleashed his CIA death squads. If one includes the late Royal Family of Nepal and the late Congolese President Laurent Desire Kabila (assassinated just 4 days before Bush was sworn in as President), the number of those dispatched climbs even higher.
- http://www.sangam.org/PIRABAKARAN/Part36.htm : According to the BBC, the state Police Intelligence Chief Kishore Jha, said the killing of Mr.Hrangkhawl was ‘a major success’. Indian intelligence is now pressing Bhutan and Bangladesh to arrest and extradite separatist refugees in those countries. The King of Bhutan and Prime Minister of Bangladesh might want to look at what happened to the entire Royal Family of Nepal last June when the late King decided to negotiate with leftist guerrillas rather than fight them. According to unblemished sources in Kathmandu, the king and his family were quickly dispatched by a Nepali army commando unit trained at the time by US Special Operation forces sent by US Pacific Commander in Chief Adm.Dennis Blair (he’s the same guy who propped up Gen.Wiranto with special training while the good general was committing genocide in East Timor). What was to become the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Influence (PSYOPs division) prepared a story, with the assistance of India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) intelligence agency, that the King and his family were murdered as a result of the Crown Prince going nuts with automatic weapons after being forlorn over his mother’s refusal to allow him to marry a commoner. The entire Western media bought that story faster than George Bush nosediving after choking on a pretzel. The media also bought that one.â€
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http://www.sangam.org/PIRABAKARAN/Part36.htm : Some may still naively believe the story that Dipendra’s romance with Devyani Rana, a daughter from a noble family in India, sealed the fate of Nepal’s King Birendra and his immediate family as plausible. But, more convincing is the fact that there has been ‘bad blood’ between India and Nepal since Rajiv Gandhi’s prime ministerial period, due to the ‘plumbing activities’ perpetrated by the muscle-flexing intelligence operatives manned by the RAW agency. During the hearing of the M.C.Jain Commission, which investigated the Rajiv assassination trial, embarrassing evidence buttressing this fact was produced from an agent’s report of RAW’s station reporting an unverified source that the then Queen Aishwarya of Nepal had negotiated a ‘hit’ on Rajiv Gandhi through one Major General Aditya Shamser Jang Bahadur for 10 crore Indian rupees! [Source: India Today magazine, Dec.1, 1997]. I should not be misunderstood. I’m not advocating that Queen Aishwarya of Nepal was instrumental in Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, and that her assassination was a ‘return hit’ instigated by the Indian operatives. Rather, it is my contention that Rajiv Gandhi assassination should not be viewed as an isolated killing of a member of a prominent Indian family, but as a single damaged spoke of South Asian wheel of political intrigue.