[SEDXC] Fw: Nepal ( 9N )-This qualifies as both HAM and World News

[Bill Barr]

Gang,

I am sure this will be on our news channels.

73
Bill N4NX
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> Nepal's king dismisses government, assumes power, cuts nation off 
> from world
> February 01, 2005 11:51 AM EST
> KATMANDU, Nepal - King Gyanendra dismissed Nepal's government on 
> Tuesday and declared a state of emergency, cutting off his Himalayan 
> nation from the rest of the world as telephone and Internet lines 
> were snapped, flights diverted and civil liberties severely 
> curtailed.
> 
> The move was the second time in three years that the king has taken 
> control of the tiny South Asian constitutional monarchy, a throwback 
> to the era of absolute power enjoyed by Nepal's monarchs before King 
> Birendra, Gyanendra's elder brother, introduced democracy in 1990.
> 
> King Gyanendra denied his takeover was a coup, although soldiers 
> surrounded the houses of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and other 
> government leaders.
> 
> The king also suspended several provisions of the constitution, 
> including the freedoms of press, speech and expression, the freedom 
> to assemble peacefully, the right to privacy, and the right against 
> preventive detention, according to a statement from the Narayanhiti 
> Palace.
> 
> View the article in its entirety:
> 
> http://start.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20050201/41ff0cd0_3426_133
> 5020050201-1852779233
> 
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