FROM INSEC.ORG TODAY:Crown prince Paras vandalized police headquarters,
beat up three police IGPs
INSN, Kathmandu/Delhi, December 3, 2005. According to very reliable sources
in Kathmandu, Crown Prince Paras Shah vandalized Nepal Police headquarters
at Naxal, Kathmandu and beat up three Inspector Generals of Police (IGPs)
this afternoon. He reportedly accused them of not being able to provide
security to him yesterday as he was on his way to the airport to receive
his father Gyanendra who returned from a lengthy visit to Africa.
Violence erupted yesterday afternoon in Kathmandu after a group of
pro-monarchy vigilantes attacked demonstrators at New Baneshwor who were
particpating in a mammoth yet peaceful pro-democracy demonstration
organized by the Communist Party of Nepal (UML). The enraged demostrators
retaliated by pelting stones at the royalist vigilantes. The police used
force against the pro-democracy activist while providing security to the
royalist vigilantes. The angry demonstrators also pelted stones at the
security convoy that passed through the road while the clash was taking
place, to receive the royal couple at the international airport. Paras Shah
was also on his way to receive the royal couple, protected by the security
convoy.
Paras reportedly went to the police headqaurters around noon today, banged
his car on the main gate, enteterd into the compound, called up the IGP of
the Janpath Nepal Police Shyam Bhakta Thapa at his own office, broke
chairs, and slapped him on his face several times. He then reportedly
ordered the IGPs of the Armed Police Force and the National Investigation
Department to report themselves imemdiately Nepal Police headquarters,
lined them up, shouted at them and slapped all of them on their face and
kicked them several times. Reportedly, he did this in full view of other
police officers and personnel. He was reportedly, repeatedly asking them,
â??What if the stones had hit me? I could have died. Why did you not
provide security?â??
Paras also reportedly assaulted a Colonel of the Roayl Nepal Army, in
charge of the security convoy yesterday.
The three police IGPs have reportedly complained about the insulting
behaviour of the prince to the king, but have not made public the details
of the incident.
Several major media houses in Kathmandu have reportedly confirmed with the
police sources about the incident. But fearing action by the royals, they
have not carried the news yet, at the time of writing this report (7:30
pm).
Some human rights activists and journalists in Kathmandu expressed the fear
with INSN that a few dozen civilians arrested by the police after the
incident yesterady may be tortured or even disappeared. Immediately after
the incident, the police randomly arrested people from the surrounding
area, accusing them of engaging in violence. The government has not made
public the list of the people arrested, let alone their whereabouts as yet.
It is publicly known in Nepal that prince Paras has murdered and asslauted
people several times in the past, before he became the Crown Prince, and
has assualted journalists and businessmen after becoming the Crown Prince.
Posted under General, Torture, Illegal detention, Royal Coup, NEWS,
EXCLUSIVE on Saturday 3 December 2005 at 7:59 pm
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