Nepal, April 3 -- Since the ouster of former King Gyanendra Shah after the 2006 People's Movement, pro-monarchists have been engaging in periodic political rallies. However, protests supporting the Shah dynasty have become rampant recently, with the latest occurring on March 28. Two innocent lives were lost, and millions worth of property were damaged on the day.

Royalists became violent particularly after Shah made a public appeal on this year's Democracy Day-the very system he destroyed with a coup d'etat on February 1, 2005-to support his movement to restore monarchy. Pro-royalists have since threatened the current political system on the streets, in Parliament, in the media and beyond. And with it comes a flood of disinformation and ...