Gyanendra blamed for deadly crackdown: Panel

Nepal probe commission blames King Gyanendra for crackdown on pro-democracy potests which left 19 dead.

A government commission has found Nepal's King Gyanendra responsible for a deadly crackdown in April on pro-democracy demonstrators that left at least 19 dead and several hundred injured, officials said on Monday.

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The commission handed the report to Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, who said those found guilty in the report would be punished.