Security Officials Express Concern Over Potential Action Following Commissions' Recommendations on Protest Crackdowns

Twenty-six people lost their lives during the Second People's Movement, which began on Chaitra 24, 2062 BS, under the leadership of the then seven political parties and concluded on Baisakh 11. An inquiry commission was formed under the chairmanship of former Supreme Court Justice Krishna Jung Raimajhi to investigate the matter. Commission officials summoned and questioned the then SSP of the Armed Police Force, Madhav Thapa, who was deployed for crowd control in the Gongabu area of Kathmandu, asking, 'Why did you open fire? Why are you always deployed only in Kathmandu?'Thapa, who was personally deployed in the Gongabu area...