In Nepal, the country´s king Gyanendra has committed a coup and made himself a kind of latter day Louis XIV. In doing so, he may have doomed his dynasty, the world last ruling Hindu monarchy. Now the interesting question is, will there soon be a third side, the democratic parties, in the country´s civil war?

Several foreign countries have condemned the coup, many - like the country´s neighbouring giant India - of them backers of the government of Nepal in the country´s bloody civil war, that have cost the lives of some 8000-15 000 people. More.