(28 Mar 2025)
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Kathmandu, Nepal – 28 March 2025
1. Protesters supporting the ex-king standing in a pickup truck that is ramming through police barricades
2. Riot police firing tear gas shells at protesters
3. Protesters throwing back the shells at the police
4. Various of police officers firing tear gas shells
5. Police firing water canon at the protesters
6. Low angle shot of riot police, street littered with shells and rocks
7. Injured police officer being taken by emergency workers
8. Emergency workers looking after man
9. Protesters apparently shot by the police being carried to get medical help
10. Various of clashes, protesters and police at scene
11. Various of tyre burning
12. Building near the protest site vandalised and then set on fire by protesters
13. People gathered at rally venue in front of stage
14. Various of rally
15. SOUNDBITE (Nepali) Rajendra Bahadur Khati, one of the participants:
"We need the country to return to monarchy and the king to come back because the political parties and system have failed in the country. When the source is so polluted, the entire system has gotten rotten.”
16. Various of police in riot gear keeping watch on the rally
17. Separate rally in another part of Kathmandu featuring people who oppose monarchy and support the present system
18. Police at rally
19. SOUNDBITE (Nepali) Ram Kumar Shrestha, a Maoist supporter:
"It is impossible for the monarchy to come back. It is ridiculous to even think that some thing that is already dead and cremated could come back to life."
20. Various of rally
STORYLINE:
Supporters of Nepal’s former king clashed with police in riot gear on Friday during a rally in the capital to demand restoration of the Himalayan nation’s abolished monarchy.
The government imposed a curfew in the areas where the clashes happened in Kathmandu after the police used tear gas, batons and water canon against the protesters.
Several protesters and police officers were injured in the clashes, but no serious casualties were reported.
Protesters vandalised nearby buildings, setting fire to at least two.
Thousands of supporters of former king Gyanendra Shah had gathered at the eastern edge of Kathmandu for the rally organized by an alliance of different groups supporting the ex-monarch.
The gathering on open ground near the airport had been planned as a peaceful rally, but trouble began after some protesters in a white pickup drove at a police barricade, colliding with several officers.
Police resorted by shooting tear gas shells and spraying the crowd with water canon.
"We need the country to return to monarchy and the king to come back because the political parties and system have failed in the country," said Rajendra Bahadur Khati, one of the participants at the rally.
On the other side of the capital city, thousands of people who support the present system of republic nation gathered Friday for a counter rally.
The rally participants were from the opposition parties led by Maoists party, which fought armed rebellion between 1996-2006 to oust the monarchy.
“It is impossible for the monarchy to come back. It is ridiculous,” said Ram Kumar Shrestha, a Maoist supporter.
There has been growing demand in the recent months for Shah be reinstated as king and Hinduism brought back as a state religion.
Royalist groups accuse the country’s major political parties of corruption and failed governance and say people are frustrated with politicians.
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