Index World Press Photo
August 2008 | Edition Ten     


Pro-democracy activists lie injured on the ground after a police baton charge, in Kathmandu, Nepal on Saturday, April 22, 2006. Nepal's King had promised the previous day to return multi-party democracy to his Himalayan nation - fourteen months after he had seized control, setting off a bloody political crisis that engulfed the country and left his government deeply unstable.



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