Trials of the Mountain Kingdom: The Agony of Nepal

T. Kumar, Director of Advocacy of Asia and the Pacific with Amnesty International

On the first of February 2005, King Gyanendra of Nepal effectively cancelled his small nation's fragile experiment with democracy. He did it to better contend with the Maoist insurgency, underway since 1996. That insurgency has only increased and the Nepalese population is growing restive over its loss of liberty. T. Kumar, Director of Advocacy of Asia and the Pacific with Amnesty International, describes what the international community can do to reverse Nepal's current course.