Pro-Democracy Strike Closes Nepal Capital
<i> Reuters</i>
KATMANDU, Nepal —
A general strike called by Nepal’s banned political parties to back their campaign for multi-party democracy virtually shut down Katmandu on Friday.
Political parties, outlawed 30 years ago as the country moved to a partyless system of elected councils, had appealed for a peaceful strike in the capital and towns across the Himalayan kingdom. Only a few violent incidents were reported.
The government of absolute monarch King Birendra, 44, has shown no signs of willingness to alter Nepal’s political system.
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