“Return, King! Except for the nation!” He sang the crowd gathered at the Katmandu airport on March 9. That day, about 10000 followers of the monarchy, abolished almost twenty years ago, gathered to welcome Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev. He returned from the city of Pokhara, west of the capital, after the passage in pro -monarchies meetings in several regions of the country. “Living our dear king,” their followers fervently proclaimed. Many observers expressed with the “ghosts of the monarchy” possible by returning to “Nepal Persecution”, as stated by the local newspaper, Nepali times.
The former 77 -year -old sovereign had demanded his older brother in 2001 after almost the entire royal family was massacred in circumstances that remain today. In the twilight of his authoritarian reign in 2005, they suspended the constitution and the dissolved Parliament. Weeks of prodemocratic protests and the union of the Maoist rebellion, which was in certain regions, finally forced him to abdicate in 2006. The 240 -year -old monarchy was abolished two years later, in 2008, in favor of a secular republic, which ended a civil war of a decade that recruited around 17,000 lives.
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