Nepal ex-king told to pay bills

[Coventina]

Source: BBC

Nepal's former royals must pay unpaid bills of more than $1m within 15 days or power to their homes could be cut off, the state utility company says.

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It is a further blow to a family which ruled for centuries before the monarchy was abolished in May.

There was no immediate response from ex-King Gyanendra or his family.

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"We have given him 15 days to clear the bills," said a senior official at the NEA, Deepak Prasad Upadhyay, Reuters news agency reports.




Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7686621.stm

[David__77]

1. They should live as normal citizens.

I think a good solution is what the Chinese did: maintain him in a modest home at state expense, provided he doesn't make trouble. If he makes trouble, put him on trial for his crimes, which include murder.

[Taverner]

2. Yeah, he killed all of the royals but his own family right?

I think I remember something like that going down...

[David__77]

3. That's never been cleared up, but many Nepalese think so.

If it weren't for that act, things would have gone very differently. His father was actually thought to be a Maoist sympathizer, and refused to dispatch the army against the rebels. Perhaps peace could have come sooner rather than later.

[derby378]

4. You're thinking of the late King Dipendra

While still the Crown Prince, he gunned down his own family at a royal dinner using a full-auto MP5, then turned the gun on himself. He never regained consciousness and died three days later from the self-inflicted GSW, but during that time he was indeed King of Nepal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipendra_of_Nepal