The state of emergency

In June, 2004, the king names again Sher Bahadur Deuba Prime Minister once again. February 1st, 2005, he dismisses the Prime Minister, takes the full powers, create a new Council of Ministers consisted of believers, decrees the state of emergency, establishes the censorship and suspends the fundamental rights to muzzle the opposition. many political actors are arrested and iput in jail.

During this period, the rebellion takes advantage of the political instability of the country (which saw 15 governments succeeding one another since 1991). it increases more and more its influence. now it takes for target not only polices but also some public and private infrastructures among which the centres of communication. During ten years of guerrilla warfare, the conflict made about 13 000 victims in Nepal.

At the beginning of 2006, seven main parties of opposition conclude an informal alliance with the Maoist rebels in the term of which they decreeted an one-sided cease-fire for indefinite duration in the Katmandu Valley to allow the parties to organize a bandh ( general strike) aiming at pressing king for the rétalissement of the democracy.

KATMANDOU, 17 may 2009

The CPN-UML (the communist parties of unified Népal-marxiste léniniste) gave sunday the signature of 350 deputies at the president of Constituent Assembly (AC) in the purpose to open the way at a new government.
Madhav Kumar Nepal should be the new prime minister of Nepal. He was support by 22 parties of AC.

But Prachanda (the president of the unified parties communist of Nepal (UCPN-M)) clash with this new government. Indeed, he said that the attempt to put in place a new government will not help to establish the peace in this country.
So, sunday, Prachanda told in the same time that his parties launch a national uprising for establish the supremacy civilians in the country and the peace.

Kathmandu : 13/03/2009

Prachanda, the prime minister and the party communist Nepal's president met thusday the president of principal opposition's party ( party of congress nepalian ), Girija Prasad Koirala.

Apparently, Prachanda made a claim at Girija Prasad Koirala, to join the coalition government. The meeting had taking place in katmandou.

Koirala had asked that a parliamentary session was convene and that the promise of the restitution of the property seized during the civil war unleashed by the former communist nepal's party (maoist ) was kept.

Murder of the royal family

The first June 2001, the king Birendra, queen Aishwarya, and at least eight other persons are murdered in the royal palace. The crown prince, Dipendra is hurt and the authorities accuse it. He is however proclaimed a king but dies the four of June following his wounds. The brother's Birendra and uncle's Dipendra is crowned king the same day. But the population does not believe the Nepalese authorities. The Nepalese require the truth because they had a lot of respect for dead king. Furthermore, Gyanendra is accused of wanting to restore the absolute monarchy and thus being set against the multiparty system ,accepted by Birendra in 1990.
The Maoist guerrilla accuses it of being the author of the massacre of the royal family because his son was saved and because himself was absent in the palace the first june, during the slaughter.

Why the country have entered in civilian's war ?

Before 1990, the country hadn't political parts. In 1990, implementation of "multipartisme" and had like effect an increase of violence.

It's in this situation that in February 13'th 1996, the communist part of maoïste Nepal activated the civil war and created the army of the people's liberation.

In june 2001, the crown prince Dipendra killed the king Birendra, the keen Aishuarya and six others members of the royal family. Furthermore, the deployment of the army in autumn activated a new civil war.

Introduction to the civil war

The Nepali Civil War (the maoists called it People's war) started by a conflict between government forces and Maoist rebels. The war was started by Maoists from the Communist Party of Nepal on February 13 1996, the goal was to establish the "People's Republic of Nepal." It ended with a Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed on November 21 2006, which is now monitored by United Nations Mission in Nepal.

The history of Nepal's flag

The Nepal's flag is the only one among the national flags who is not rectangular. The red is the national color of Nepal, but it is also the color of the rhododendron which is the national flower of Nepal.The crescent moon in cradle represents the perpetuity of the royal family and the sun symbolizes the Rana family (Family which took the power of the népal in 1845) .
Both points evoke the summits of Himalaya.