I won't repeat them here, were offered about the wounds people suffered. The sources were impeccable, if anonymous, and the story was out on international news agencies and broadcast outlets within a few hours. It's the way things work. Journalists from liberal democracies operate in a climate where only libel laws and the requirements of truth dictate what they report. But Nepal is different.
Democracy is young and the monarchy is a mystical and revered institution here.
A much respected king was dead, his son was wounded and in a coma, and accused of his death. Despite that, he was named monarch. Thirty hours after the killings, the authorities lamely tried to explain them away as an accident, or more accurately, the sudden discharge of an automatic weapon. The riots weren't huge, but they caused chaos on top of grief and the authorities imposed a curfew. The conspiracy theories were by now churning furiously.