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\"The
In June of 2001 the world was a very different place. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

During the summer of 2001, the world was simpler. Nobody in America had to remove their shoes to board an airliner, and commercial aviation was still kind of fun. The twin towers proudly dominated the iconic New York City skyline, and the Department of Homeland Security was not a real thing. On the other side of the planet, however, there seethed a family quarrel adequate to eradicate a bloodline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
The sordid details of the Nepalese Royal Massacre make the JFK assassination seem tame by comparison. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In case you haven\u2019t yet noticed, I\u2019m not a journalist.\nI\u2019m just a guy who likes guns and owns a word processor. Reading about the\nconspiracy theories that orbit around the eradication of the Nepalese monarchy\nmakes the JFK assassination look like a first-grade field trip to the zoo. I\ndid the best I could to tease out the details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Setting<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"The
The Nepalese King Bihendra was revered by his people. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As Nepal welcomed the new millennium the royal family was wildly popular. King Bihendra was by all accounts a benevolent monarch, and for the most part, his people loved him. Bihendra\u2019s extended clan held a formal family get-together each month at their palace in Kathmandu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
The rigid social mores in Nepal exerted tremendous pressure on young royals in search of love. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The social structure in Nepal was\nsomething we emancipated Americans might have a tough time following. Labyrinthine\npermutations of wealth, connections, and bloodlines defined social strata that\nshaped marriages and subsequently perpetuated itself. Theirs was a heavily\nregulated caste system, and the more conservative members of the royal clans\nfrowned upon fraternizing outside your lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
Prince Dipendra\u2019s love interest, Devyani Rana, was not considered proper marriage material by the Queen Mother. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On June 1, 2001, the Crown Prince Dipendra had romance on his mind and found himself in a particularly dour mood. Apparently, the Queen disapproved of the Prince\u2019s lady friend, a young woman with some unfortunate family connections in nearby India. Traditional family values were about to clash with modern liberated sociology in a manner most chaotic. As the dinner progressed Dipendra purportedly drank heavily and smoked a fair amount of hashish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
Prince Dipendra was apparently a handful when intoxicated. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Thusly lubricated, Dipendra grew obnoxious. The official narrative holds that when the patriarch had had his fill he banished the intoxicated royal to his room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
Dipendra had a fascination with firearms. His position as Crown Prince gave him access to anything in the world. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Dipendra was a gun nerd, and he had the resources of a nation-state driving his firearms collection. He kept his primary counter-zombie stash secured within his bedroom closet. On this fateful evening, Prince Dipendra changed into camouflage fatigues and, in a scene right out of central casting, armed himself most generously before striding back into the banquet hall. He carried an ominous canvas bag over his shoulder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
Dipendra apparently initiated the slaughter with an HK MP5K submachine gun. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The prince\u2019s cousin Paras survived the shooting and reported that Dipendra ignited the massacre by loosing a burst from his MP5K into the ceiling. He then shot his father with another burst of three rounds from his diminutive German subgun. Apparently, the berserk prince then stepped outside to assess the state of palace security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
This is the Colt M16A2 Commando used by Dipendra during his rampage. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When he returned moments later, Dipendra was carrying his M16A2 Colt Commando. Bearing a blank expression on his face he then killed his father with a shot to the head before unleashing his fury on everybody in the room. Paras estimated that the crazed 30-year-old future regent expended about seventy-five rounds before chasing his mother up a set of stairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
The shooter also used this Franchi SPAS-12 shotgun during his bloody slog through the palace. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Over the next few minutes, the Prince supposedly wandered about generally wreaking mayhem. Along the way, he indexed to a SPAS-12 shotgun and a Glock 19 pistol. The story goes that he attacked his mom with villainous intent, inadvertently offing his brother in the process. He then messily and maliciously completed his matricide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
It appears his parents were the primary targets of Dipendra\u2019s murderous attack. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The prince murdered another half dozen\nmembers of the royal family and critically injure a further five. The dead\nincluded Dipendra\u2019s father, mother, brother, sister, uncle,\nand a pair of aunts. His bloody rampage complete, Dipendra then purportedly\nretired to the garden to ruminate on his sins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
Prince Dipendra\u2019s final moments remain shrouded in controversy. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once outside the Prince supposedly shot\nhimself in a fit of remorse. However, he was said to have suffered six separate\nwounds to his back and one to his hand in addition to a bullet wound to his\ntemple. In all my travels I\u2019ve never seen anybody quite that\nflexible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
Prince Dipendra actually ruled the country of Nepal for three days\u2026while unconscious\u2026from a hospital bed. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here our tale gets even weirder. Dipendra, the homicidal prince, was whisked away to an ICU and placed on life support while his body processed the memo that he was done for. He lingered for some three days during which he was actually crowned king while unconscious and dying. Despite the fact that he had slaughtered his entire immediate family and was all but dead himself the line of succession still led inexorably to him. I suppose rules are rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
The resulting investigation was fairly cursory and as a result, failed to satisfy most. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For the three days that Dipendra reigned while unconscious, the official narrative was that the entire royal family had been killed by the accidental discharge of an automatic weapon. After Dipendra\u2019s demise Keshav Prasad Upadhaya, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and Taranath Ranabhat, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, conducted a weeklong investigation, interviewing more than a hundred people. However, forensic data and post-mortem information were either sketchy or suppressed. All this conspired to fan the fires of conspiracy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
Regional tensions remain high in and around Nepal. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

9\/11 detonated some three months later, and the world lost interest in the strangest familial mass shooting in human history. Conspiracy theories threatened to shake the fragile Nepalese government apart. For reasons I don\u2019t quite comprehend the Nepalese and the Indians apparently despise each other. Then as now many Nepalese attribute this most egregious regicide to Indian operatives. For my part, it seems that Dipendra was simply a spoiled young man of privilege unaccustomed to not getting his way. When his parents said he couldn\u2019t choose his own soul mate he let his passions get the better of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
The King\u2019s brother Gyanendra assumed power for a time, but the damage was done. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bihendra\u2019s unpopular brother\nGyanendra ascended to the throne, but the royal family was by this point most\nmortally wounded. Gyanendra\u2019s surviving son Paras developed a reputation\nas a bit of a scoundrel and was accused of killing a popular Nepalese singer in\na hit-and-run accident about a year later. In 2008 the Nepalese parliament\nvoted 597-to-4 to abolish the monarchy. Gyanendra was given two weeks to vacate\nthe palace, and the facility was turned into a museum. Nepal is a Federal\nParliamentary Republic today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guns<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"The
The HK MP5K was a specialist\u2019s weapon designed for a fairly narrow set of applications. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The HK MP5K was a shortened concealable\nversion of the MP5 submachine gun first introduced in 1976. Featuring an\nabbreviated receiver and subsequent accelerated rate of fire along with a\nstubby 4.5-inch barrel, the MP5K was intended for personal security details and\nsimilar covert applications. The gun\u2019s 900 round per\nminute rate of fire makes it a bit of a handful, but its forward vertical\nhandgrip greatly enhances controllability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
The M16A2 Commando, shown here in the hands of an IDF soldier, is a submachine gun version of the product improved M16A2 rifle developed by the Marine Corps. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The M16A2 was an evolutionary development\nof Eugene Stoner\u2019s original 1950\u2019s-era AR15. The A2\nversion of the M16 added a heavier barrel, a redesigned pistol grip, improved\nsights, a flash suppressor left closed on the bottom to minimize dust signature\non firing, and a three-round burst mechanism in place of its original full auto\nfunction. The shortened Commando variant featured an 11.5-inch barrel and a\nbrass deflector built into the upper receiver. Dipendra\u2019s gun also included\na 3X telescopic sight mounted to the carrying handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
The scary visuals of the Franchi SPAS-12 shotgun placed it in the hands of the Terminator. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Franchi SPAS-12 was produced in Italy\nfrom 1979 until 2000. 37,000 copies rolled off the lines before it was\nsuperseded by the magazine-fed SPAS-15. The scary paramilitary vibe of the\nweapon landed it any number of film and TV roles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
The SPAS-12 is an effective but complicated combat shotgun. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The SPAS-12 will operate in either pump\nor gas-operated semiauto modes and is both heavy and ludicrously byzantine. The\ntop-folding stock is uncomfortable, and the gun\u2019s internal polymer\nbuffer tends to crumble to pieces over time, subjecting the receiver to an\nunacceptable battering. The action is reliable enough, but I find the gun to be\nway too complex for practical use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
The Glock 19 pistol is one of the most popular combat handguns in the world. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Glock 19 is the runt brother to Gaston Glock\u2019s eponymous G17 semiautomatic pistol. First produced in 1988, the G19 features a barrel and grip each one-half inch shorter than those of the larger G17. Sporting an abbreviated 15-round magazine and identical controls to the larger Glock, the G19 has been fabulously successful. As of 2007, more than 5 million Glock pistols had seen service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denouement<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"The
One conspiracy tale purports that Prince Dipendra was setting himself up for life after the monarchy via an arms deal that involved HK G36 rifles. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Prince Paras claims that the attack was a\ncalculated affair driven by King Bihendra\u2019s stated intent to\nabolish the monarchy, effectively putting the love-starved Dipendra out of a\njob. Dipendra was known to shoot lizards around the palace with assault rifles\nas a form of recreation, so he was quirky on a good day. There were even rumors\nthat a kickback from a pending arms deal set to choose between the American\nM16A2 and the German G36 might have helped precipitate the rampage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
Nepal is best known as the jumping-off point for assaults on Mount Everest. In 2001, however, it played home to the bloodier sort. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the West, Nepal is likely best known for its small yet fierce Gurkha soldiers and a certain unusually large mountain. However, in 2001 an apparent family squabble over a girl escalated into a massacre of majestic proportions. Whether it was forbidden love, a gun deal gone sour, or simply an ill-tempered brat behaving poorly, the resulting bloodbath irrevocably altered the course of the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The
In the aftermath of Prince Dipendra\u2019s assault, the Nepalese monarchy was ultimately dissolved and the royal palace, shown here, became a museum. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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