When the Nepalis Know the Truth,
They'll Hate Us

Murder
at the Palace

By
JOSEPH PIETRI

What really happened the night of June
1, 2001 at the Palace? Was the coup engineered by the Bush administration?
In the days before the massacre a team of Muscular Americans
were observed at the Hyatt Hotel in Boudha. They told everyone
that they were their building a hospital in Patan but in the
days after the massacre they left Nepal never to be seen again.

It was reported that the Black
Prince was in Pokhara taking care of his conservation projects.
The reality is he was at the Kathmandu airport awaiting the news
of his coup. The Crown Prince was all ready arrested and taken
to Balaju Army barracks. Prince Paras and Military Officers carried
out the assassinations at the Palace. There was a tremendous
shoot out at the Palace between King Birendra's staff and Paras
and his assassins. Helicopters were observed all night taking
bodies of Birendra's staff and dumping them in rivers along the
border. This I know as well: anyone having any first hand knowledge
of this is either dead or out of Nepal.

Those who did make it out live
in fear.

Gyanendra waited at the airport
while Paras did the dirty work and in case the coup did not succeed
he planned on escaping from there. The Crown Prince was kept
alive until after his father was killed. Then he was executed
by the military. He was kept as a bargaining chip by the Military
Officers involved in the coup in the case it did not succeed
they would bargain the Crown Prince's life for exile.

Were the Americans just observers,
or did they take part in this obviously well engineered plot?

The British and the Indian
governments must have been in on it as well, but made sure they
distanced themselves from the actual event. After all India is
a Hindu country and Birendra a Hindu king, and there is a long
relationship between Nepal and England and both royal families.

King Birendra never unleashed
the Royal Nepalese Army on the Maoists and the gains they made
led to the Coup. Gyanendra had the support of the military and
the blessings of the Bush and Blair administrations as well as
the Indian Government. Again they are now building a road from
the Indian border to Lo Mothang. Lo Mothang on the Tibetan plateau
bordering China was the jump off point for American-trained Tibetan
guerillas fighting the Chinese. The CIA maintained a base there
throughout the 1960s and 1970s--the Tibetan plateau being perfect
for a forward airbase against China in the future.

Gyanendra is the Saddam Hussein
of Nepal who killed his own brothers and family so he could be
King. It's time for the awful truth to be known and our Governments
part in it must be exposed. This is another chapter in our bloody
history and again we have supported a heroin-dealing murderous
despot/king/dictator.

I will all ways love Nepal
and have many fond memories of my youth there and I am ashamed
of what is obviously my own country's hand in this murderous
affair in the land of Lord Buddha. American foreign policy has
ruined Nepal. The thought of B 52s based in the land of temples
makes me shudder.

This is how we create Osamas;
this is how we create terrorism; this is how we create hatred
for America. Say what you must against Birendra, the Nepali people
loved their King and Queen and when they come to know the truth
they will hate us for our part in this tragedy,

Jai Nepal! Free Nepal!

Joseph Pietri author The
King of Nepal. He can be reached at: jpietri@msn.com

Source: http://www.counterpunch.org/pietri03052005.html, retrived Jan 13, 2010