US Calls on Nepal's King to Restore Democracy Immediately

[WhiteTara]

http://voanews.com/english/2006-04-10-voa63.cfm
I'm not sure I trust this source since it's our official propaganda channel.
The United States said Monday the effort by Nepal's politically besieged King Gyanendra to rule the country by decree has been a total failure. The State Department called on him to restore democracy and open dialogue with the political opposition.

The Bush administration is watching the political unrest in Nepal with growing concern, and is trying to increase the pressure on King Gyanendra to lift the state of emergency he imposed more than a year ago and engage with the democratic opposition.

The State Department began its daily press briefing Monday with an unusual public appeal to the Nepalese ruler to scrap his effort at direct rule, which department spokesman Sean McCormack said has only added to the Himalayan country's serious problems. "As a friend of Nepal, we must state that King Gyanendra's decision 14 months ago to impose direct palace rule in Nepal has failed in every regard. The demonstrations, deaths, arrests, and Maoist attacks in the past few days have shown there is more insecurity, not less. The king's continuing failure to bring the parties back into a process to restore democracy has compounded the problem," he said.
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Spokesman McCormack said the United States calls on the king to restore democracy immediately and begin dialogue with Nepal's constitutional political parties. He said it is time the king recognizes that the best way to deal with the Maoists is to return peace and prosperity to the country.

The State Department last week condemned the king's ban on public gatherings and detention of opponents, and said the dialogue the troubled country needs cannot occur in a climate in which freedoms of assembly and speech are suppressed.

[Jack Rabbit]

1. Jack Rabbit concurs and adds . . .

. . . his own call on the US to restore democracy immediately.

[Zenlitened]

2. *irony meter explodes*

:nuke:

[saigon68]

3. Its more of KindaSleezy Rice's noisy blatherings from her Pie-Hole

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[LynnTheDem]

4. Dear US; GUESS how much credibility you have in anything to anyone.

ESPECIALLY when it's anything to do with "democracy".

[Sinti]

5. Do they have any natural resources we'd like to exploit?

We could trade them our Democracy for their salable goods. oh wait... we already traded ours for insecurity

Never mind

[David__77]

6. Maoist-parties alliance will win.

And it should win. They are fighting for freedom against an autocratic monarchy that will not abide the people's wishes.

[David in Canada]

8. King Gyanendra is toast...

King Gyanendra's regime is dead. It just doesn't know it yet. The only thing left to see is whether Gyanendra flees into exile or ends up like Ceausescu.

This is a HUGE fall from grace for the Nepali monarchy, who a mere half-decade ago were worshipped by the populace as de facto gods!

[David in Canada]

7. Response:

The Democratic Underground has officially called upon the Bush-Cheney-Rice-Rumsfeld junta to restore democracy and human rights to the United States of America.

This is bizarro world! :crazy:

[pinniped]

9. Is there an ahole at the wh whose job is to find all countries....

and people who are missing their so-called demockracies?

I hear they're gonna tell the Asmat people to restore their demockracies.

[Ecumenist]

10. These cheeky bastards have no shame...

Pot meet kettle....