Storming?
| 10:24 UK time, Thursday, 20 April 2006
There are some places you would not want to be reporting on a crowd intent on overthrowing a king.
Nepal is not one of those places.
You could expect the thousands of people determined that King Gyanendra's grip on power must end to behave with restraint, and even when under fire from the police or army to have the welfare of visitors in mind - even journalists.
Even the guerilla leaders I met in Nepal were polite. I have no illusion about their violent attacks - but they do not see foreigners as the enemy.
We hope our correspondent Charles Haviland and other foreign news reporters benefit from that tradition.
Comments
"Reporting" is hazardous duty just about everyplace these days. Passions run from high to dangerously crazy where any two sides are opposed on anything. (British football fans are an apt if exagerated example.) Few are seen as neutral. Including reporters. Including ´óÏó´«Ã½. In Napal the guy on the yak may not like what he hears about his country on the radio at 10:AM BS time. But is he violent about it ? The best of British luck to Charlie out there.