The authorities took the body of Basu Ghimire, one of the protesters killed, to a cremation ground on the banks of the Bagmati river in Kathmandu earlier on Friday.



Police in full riot gear stood on the cremation bank while Mr Ghimire's colleagues from the Nepali Congress Party held a minute's silence and then chanted pro-democracy slogans on the other side of the river.

Mr Ghimire's brother-in-law was the only family member present.

He said that police had taken the body to the cremation site without the family's permission and violated a holy site by not letting a family member light the funeral pyre.

Geeta Shahi, one of those present at the cremation, described the haste with which the funeral was held as "brutal".

"This just shows how insensitive our government is," she told the BBC. "I'm sure this cremation has been held on the direct orders of the king."


source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4929102.stm