Isolatedji, Due to time restrictions, I am unable to give a comprehensive reply to your comments today. We shall discuss on all of those issues next time. First you haven't provided any basis of correlation between Lee Kuan Yew and King Gyanendra. You have totally ignored the pretext of events that led to Lee's success and at the same time you have ignored the differences in personality, style and ideology between the two people. If you repeatedly compare Lee with Gyanendra just because Lee suppressed his opposition while bringing prospertity for Singapore out of chaos, I can compare King Gyanendra with dozens of despots like Augusto Pinochet, Ferdinand Marcos, Hassan Turabi, Hafez Al-Assad, Charles Taylor, Idi Amin, Jonas Savimbi, Suharto etc because he has followed their path of dictatorship. While you have 2/3 examples to CHASTISE GYanendra, I can provide you with dozens and dozens of examples to VILIFY him. So lets not make exaggerated comparisons between Lee and Gyanendra. I think you know lot more about Lee than me. However, let me bring some facts about Lee's career (My knowledge about him is very limited so I can present very few of them) so that you could explain me later how Gyanendra could be compared with him. Lee is the son of a commoner. Lee is a Cambridge university educated lawyer. Lee is a witness of the atrocities committed in the world war II. Lee saw colonial rule of Britain as well as he accepted merging with Malaysia. Lee founded a political party, contested election and became an assembly member. Lee held referendum and got an overwhelming majority (70%?) from the people to implement his decision. Lee founded modern singapore. Lee's Singapore suppressed communists but didn't forced ban on other liberties except freedom of political expression. Lee opted the policy of neutrality and non-allignment. (I have put this one just to ask you to take note of how Gyanendra explicitly rejected Taiwan's existence) Lee advocated a distinct political idealogy of Asian values. Apart from being a successful leader, he is widely respected as a political thinker. Now please enlighten me how Gyanendra can be compared with Lee. And did you forget that King Mahendra tried to become a South Asian Lee Kuan almost 50 years ago and desperately failed? If all dictators were as succesful as Lee, there would be no problems in Africa, Latin America and Asia today. Please try to convince yourself first about seeing Lee Kuan Yew's statesmanship in Gyanendra before trying to pursue me to believe you. Desperate insistence doesn't work my friend. Otherwise, I can provide you plenty of similarities between Gyanendra and infamous dictators of the world. On rest of the issues, we shall discuss later on.