Kathmandu, April 1 -- Sujani Magiya was busy preparing for a family gathering that fateful Friday at her home in Chandragiri as her husband, television journalist Suresh Rajak, got ready to head to work.

Sujani reminded him to be home early for the get-together. "I'll come back early," Suresh promised and left to cover the royalist rally at Tinkune.

As confrontation between riot police and demonstrators unfolded, he had climbed up an office building for a vantage point to film the events below. Just then, some in the crowd shouted that there were police on the roof of the building and started stoning the green glass facade.

Suresh was last photographed filming through the broken windows, and kept on filming even as the rioters set fire...