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A government-appointed inquiry team named Crown Prince Dipendra as perpetrator of the massacre. [4] Dipendra slipped into a coma after shooting himself in the head. [5] Dipendra was declared King of Nepal while comatose after murdering his father and brothers. He died in hospital three days after the massacre without regaining consciousness.
His motive for the murders is unknown, but there are various theories. Dipendra desired to marry Devyani Rana , the daughter of an Indian princess whom he had met in England, but due to her father's lower caste and her father's political alliances, Dipendra's parents objected; he was told that he would have to give up his claim to the throne in ...
On 1 June 2001, some members of the Shah dynasty were murdered in the royal palace. A High Commission report concluded that the royal family was slaughtered by Crown Prince Dipendra. This remains controversial. [6] Among the dead were the Crown Prince's father, King Birendra and his brother, Prince Nirajan. After the attack, Dipendra was in a ...
On 1 June 2001, the infamous Nepalese royal massacre took place in the Tribhuvan Sadan where ten members of the royal family, including King Birendra, Queen Aishwarya, and Crown Prince Dipendra, were killed in a mass shooting. [5] The Tribhuvan Sadan was demolished after the orders of the Queen Mother Ratna Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah.
Crown Prince Dipendra [24] was accused of the massacre by the Incident Inquiry Committee consisting of Chief Justice Keshav Prasad Upadhaya, and the speaker of the House of Representatives, Taranath Ranabhat. Dipendra, supposedly comatose after a suicide attempt, is crowned king, according to tradition. He supposedly died on 4 June 2001.
The circumstances of death are not clear but Prince Dipendra killed his father and the others before committing suicide. [8] The rebels had three main demands: the abolition of the monarchy, the formation of a coalition government and the election of a constituent assembly. The government refused, and conflict resumed.
On June 1, 2001, ten members of the Nepalese royal family were murdered, reportedly by the Crown Prince Dipendra. Dipendra first shot King Birendra. The wounded king wanted to pick up the weapon that the Crown Prince had left behind and shoot his own son, in an attempt to stop the massacre, but the king was stopped by Princess Shova.
Paras Bir Bikram Shahdev or Paras Shah, Crown Prince Of Nepal (born 30 December 1971) is the former and last Crown Prince of Nepal, the heir apparent to the throne, from 2001 until the abolition of the monarchy by the Interim Constituent Assembly in 2008 following the Constituent Assembly election.