Till now I had slim hope inside me that kings this move was to take Nepal to brighter side.... but reading this news article in Reuter news.... my heart broke in pieces..... This deed is similar to what Saddan Husain did to his opposer...... Hope Gyane and his Dhundukari son will die a slow and painful death.... http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DEL256896.htm Army choppers shoot Nepali students - media 04 Feb 2005 04:14:41 GMT Source: Reuters NEW DELHI, Feb 4 (Reuters) - The Nepali army, under direct control of the king after he sacked the government and assumed power, fired from helicopters at student protesters, wounding at least 15, an Indian newspaper reported on Friday. It is the first report of violence from the Himalayan kingdom since the king's Feb. 1 move, which has drawn widespread global condemnation. The Hindustan Times said the shooting took place in the town of Pokhara hours after King Gyanendra fired the prime minister, declared a state of emergency and took charge of the country himself for the next three years. Immediately after the royal proclamation, students at Pokhara's Prithvi Narayan College came out in protest and prevented soldiers from entering the campus to halt the demonstration, the daily said, quoting unidentified sources in a despatch from Kathmandu. Held at bay on the ground, the army responded with helicopters, firing at the protesters from the air, it said. About 15 students were shot and then moved to army barracks rather than hospital, it added. The detained students were being tortured and it was not known if any had died of their wounds, the daily said, calling the incident Nepal's "own version of Tiananmen Square" after the 1989 Chinese military crackdown in which hundreds were killed in Beijing. Pokhara, a tourist resort about 200 km (125 miles) west of Kathmandu, is popular for its stunning views of the Himalayas. "We have information that there was such an incident from very reliable sources," the Hindustan Times report quoted Kedar Prasad Poudyal, secretary of Nepal's National Human Rights Commission, as saying. Nepal has been largely cut off from the world as Gyanendra has shut down all communications and Internet services and imposed strict media censorship, banning reports critical of the monarch's decisions. Several political leaders have been placed under house arrest or jailed to prevent street protests against the king.