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19 September 2025

Pro-monarchy supporters stage a protest at Maitighar Mandala in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 19, 2025, demanding the scrapping of the current constitution. Demonstrators hold placards with slogans like ''We don't accept the constitution, only the King'' and ''Asoj 3, Black Day.'' During the protest, supporters set fire to copies of the constitution while urging justice for Gen Z protesters and security personnel impacted by recent unrest.

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19 September 2025

Pro-monarchy supporters stage a protest at Maitighar Mandala in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 19, 2025, demanding the scrapping of the current constitution. Demonstrators hold placards with slogans like ''We don't accept the constitution, only the King'' and ''Asoj 3, Black Day.'' During the protest, supporters set fire to copies of the constitution while urging justice for Gen Z protesters and security personnel impacted by recent unrest.

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19 September 2025

Pro-monarchy supporters stage a protest at Maitighar Mandala in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 19, 2025, demanding the scrapping of the current constitution. Demonstrators hold placards with slogans like ''We don't accept the constitution, only the King'' and ''Asoj 3, Black Day.'' During the protest, supporters set fire to copies of the constitution while urging justice for Gen Z protesters and security personnel impacted by recent unrest.

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19 September 2025

Pro-monarchy supporters burn copies of the constitution during a protest at Maitighar Mandala in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 19, 2025, demanding its abolition. Demonstrators carry placards with slogans such as ''We don't accept the constitution, only the King'' and ''Asoj 3, Black Day,'' referring to the day Nepal's constitution is promulgated in 2015. They also call for justice for Gen Z protesters and security personnel affected during recent unrest.

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19 September 2025

Pro-monarchy supporters stage a protest at Maitighar Mandala in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 19, 2025, demanding the scrapping of the current constitution. Demonstrators hold placards with slogans like ''We don't accept the constitution, only the King'' and ''Asoj 3, Black Day.'' During the protest, supporters set fire to copies of the constitution while urging justice for Gen Z protesters and security personnel impacted by recent unrest.

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#12773620

19 September 2025

Pro-monarchy supporters burn copies of the constitution during a protest at Maitighar Mandala in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 19, 2025, demanding its abolition. Demonstrators carry placards with slogans such as ''We don't accept the constitution, only the King'' and ''Asoj 3, Black Day,'' referring to the day Nepal's constitution is promulgated in 2015. They also call for justice for Gen Z protesters and security personnel affected during recent unrest.

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#12773622

19 September 2025

Pro-monarchy supporters stage a protest at Maitighar Mandala in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 19, 2025, demanding the scrapping of the current constitution. Demonstrators hold placards with slogans like ''We don't accept the constitution, only the King'' and ''Asoj 3, Black Day.'' During the protest, supporters set fire to copies of the constitution while urging justice for Gen Z protesters and security personnel impacted by recent unrest.

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#12773623

19 September 2025

Pro-monarchy supporters stage a protest at Maitighar Mandala in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 19, 2025, demanding the scrapping of the current constitution. Demonstrators hold placards with slogans like ''We don't accept the constitution, only the King'' and ''Asoj 3, Black Day.'' During the protest, supporters set fire to copies of the constitution while urging justice for Gen Z protesters and security personnel impacted by recent unrest.

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#12773624

19 September 2025

Pro-monarchy supporters stage a protest at Maitighar Mandala in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 19, 2025, demanding the scrapping of the current constitution. Demonstrators hold placards with slogans like ''We don't accept the constitution, only the King'' and ''Asoj 3, Black Day.'' During the protest, supporters set fire to copies of the constitution while urging justice for Gen Z protesters and security personnel impacted by recent unrest.

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#12773625

19 September 2025

Pro-monarchy supporters stage a protest at Maitighar Mandala in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 19, 2025, demanding the scrapping of the current constitution. Demonstrators hold placards with slogans like ''We don't accept the constitution, only the King'' and ''Asoj 3, Black Day.'' During the protest, supporters set fire to copies of the constitution while urging justice for Gen Z protesters and security personnel impacted by recent unrest.

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#12773627

19 September 2025

Pro-monarchy supporters stage a protest at Maitighar Mandala in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 19, 2025, demanding the scrapping of the current constitution. Demonstrators hold placards with slogans like ''We don't accept the constitution, only the King'' and ''Asoj 3, Black Day.'' During the protest, supporters set fire to copies of the constitution while urging justice for Gen Z protesters and security personnel impacted by recent unrest.

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19 September 2025

Pro-monarchy supporters stage a protest at Maitighar Mandala in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 19, 2025, demanding the scrapping of the current constitution. Demonstrators hold placards with slogans like ''We don't accept the constitution, only the King'' and ''Asoj 3, Black Day.'' During the protest, supporters set fire to copies of the constitution while urging justice for Gen Z protesters and security personnel impacted by recent unrest.

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19 September 2025

Pro-monarchy supporters stage a protest at Maitighar Mandala in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 19, 2025, demanding the scrapping of the current constitution. Demonstrators hold placards with slogans like ''We don't accept the constitution, only the King'' and ''Asoj 3, Black Day.'' During the protest, supporters set fire to copies of the constitution while urging justice for Gen Z protesters and security personnel impacted by recent unrest.

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19 September 2025

Pro-monarchy supporters stage a protest at Maitighar Mandala in Kathmandu, Nepal, on September 19, 2025, demanding the scrapping of the current constitution. Demonstrators hold placards with slogans like ''We don't accept the constitution, only the King'' and ''Asoj 3, Black Day.'' During the protest, supporters set fire to copies of the constitution while urging justice for Gen Z protesters and security personnel impacted by recent unrest.

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#12536580

7 July 2025

Deposed Nepali King Gyanendra Shah (center) addresses the media at his private residence in Kathmandu, Nepal, on July 7, 2025, on his birthday. The 79-year-old deposed monarch comes to power for the second time in 2001 following the royal massacre where the entire family of his brother, Birendra Bir Bikram Shah, is assassinated. In 2005, Gyanendra Shah stages a royal coup, taking over all power, dissolving the parliament and cabinet, and ordering political leaders to be kept under house arrest. A year later, following a mass uprising, Gyanendra, unable to face international pressure, steps down from the post, reinstating the parliament. The successful movement, which changes the political landscape of the Himalayan nation buffered between India and China, is called the ''People's Movement II.'' Gyanendra at the time tries to suppress the movement by deploying all levels of security forces, resulting in the death of 18 people over a span of 19 days and injuring more than 4,000, which mainly includes children, as per the record of Human Rights Watch in 2006. It is then that the insurgent CPN-Maoist comes to mainstream politics in Nepal, ending a decade-long insurgency by signing a comprehensive peace accord on November 21, 2006. Two years after abolishing the nearly two-and-a-half-century-old monarchy system, the Himalayan nation becomes a republic and a secular state on May 28, 2008. Within less than two decades into the new practice of governance, the Himalayan nation is now divided into two factions of pro and anti-monarchs. The monarch of the Himalayan nation follows the lineage of the Shah dynasty and is revered as an incarnation of the Hindu god Bishnu. With the abolishment of the monarchy, it becomes limited to a very small group, which now again is reemerging.

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7 July 2025

Deposed Nepali King Gyanendra Shah (center) addresses the media at his private residence in Kathmandu, Nepal, on July 7, 2025, on his birthday. The 79-year-old deposed monarch comes to power for the second time in 2001 following the royal massacre where the entire family of his brother, Birendra Bir Bikram Shah, is assassinated. In 2005, Gyanendra Shah stages a royal coup, taking over all power, dissolving the parliament and cabinet, and ordering political leaders to be kept under house arrest. A year later, following a mass uprising, Gyanendra, unable to face international pressure, steps down from the post, reinstating the parliament. The successful movement, which changes the political landscape of the Himalayan nation buffered between India and China, is called the ''People's Movement II.'' Gyanendra at the time tries to suppress the movement by deploying all levels of security forces, resulting in the death of 18 people over a span of 19 days and injuring more than 4,000, which mainly includes children, as per the record of Human Rights Watch in 2006. It is then that the insurgent CPN-Maoist comes to mainstream politics in Nepal, ending a decade-long insurgency by signing a comprehensive peace accord on November 21, 2006. Two years after abolishing the nearly two-and-a-half-century-old monarchy system, the Himalayan nation becomes a republic and a secular state on May 28, 2008. Within less than two decades into the new practice of governance, the Himalayan nation is now divided into two factions of pro and anti-monarchs. The monarch of the Himalayan nation follows the lineage of the Shah dynasty and is revered as an incarnation of the Hindu god Bishnu. With the abolishment of the monarchy, it becomes limited to a very small group, which now again is reemerging.

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