Nepal’s five parties in the coalition government have agreed to launch an investigation in to the royal carnage that took place in the Narayanhity royal palace on 01 June 2001 when all the family members of King Birendra were massacred within minutes. Birendra’s younger brother Gyanendra declared himself king after the tragedy.
While the entire family members of Birendra were wiped out in a weekly family dinner party, Gyanendra’s wife and son,also present there, survived. The Nepalis have ever since taken it as a mystery to be unfolded accurately.
Immediately reacting on the incident, Gyanedra said that it happened due to a gun accident, he later changed his version and blamed the then Prince Dipendra for the incident. Palace sources were quoted by media as saying that Dipendra killed himself after he massacred all of them. However, the Nepalis have always demanded a serious and independent investigation on the case in order to prevent any future crimes of the scale.
Former King Gyanendra is in India now when the parties have expressed their commitment to investigate into the massacre.
Monarchy in Nepal was abolished on 28 May 2008 after the election of the Constituent Assembly on 10 April of the same year.
Nepalis had given their street verdict to abolish monarchy by storming into streets across the country by defying army curfews continuously for 19 days in April 2006.
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