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Kathmandu Friday June 15, 2001 Ashadh 01, 2058.
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SPECIAL EDITORIAL
No politicization, please
No matter how difficult it may be, the truth about the slaying our dearly
beloved King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya has finally come out. The high powered probe
committee headed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Keshab Prasad Upadhyaya and
comprising the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Taranath Ranabhat, has named the
then Crown Prince Dipendra as the one who pulled the trigger, unleashing one of the worst
and most gruesome regicide in history and traumatizing this country. The panel despite its
time limitations has obviously done a commendable job interviewing the survivors of the
massacre, Royal Palace officials and guards. But despite the meticulous work done by the
commission, the people who are just not ready to face the truth may find the findings too
difficult to believe. But no panel will be true or impartial if it plays to the gallery
and brings out only those things that the people want to hear and see. Indeed, truth is
always hard to digest and the naming of Dipendra as the one who pulled the trigger that
left so many dead is one such truth.
The bitter truth will have to be swallowed and the nation put back on tracks.
The panel – at least from its press conference – did not attribute a motive for
the killings. And this will ultimately have to be revealed, if there is one and if the
then Crown Prince had merely gone berserk for nothing as it may be his wont. But whatever
be the case, the panel has established without refute that the he sprayed the bullets that
killed so many. The nation, however, has to move forward and it behooves on political
parties not to politicise the whole sad tragedy. If there has ever been a time for the
people and the political parties to unitedly forge ahead, it is surely now. The wounds
have to be healed and the nation has to be put on tracks again. Already the political
squabbling in the past few years has cost the country dear and if similar tendency in this
case is repeated, it may pose a threat to the survival of this nation as an independent
entity, something nobody would ever want. There may be things that needs to be put right,
including carrying of lethal weapons by members of the Royal Family. This, the political
parties and the Royal Palace sitting together can solve. But the important thing now for
all Nepalese is to get on the path of national development which has always been the top
priority of our late beloved king.
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