Can armed uprising in Nepal lead to democracy?
In western countries like France, USA etc armed struggles by mainly their own people for abolishing monarchy or for independence ended in democracies but there is not a single instance in Asia where it has happened so.
For example in India or Pakistan there was no armed independence struggle, in China the armed struggle did not bring democracy but communism, in Bangladesh armed independence struggle was not mainly by its own people but mainly with the help of armed forces of India.
Hence it will be interesting to watch whether present turmoil in Nepal which was triggered mainly due to armed uprising of Maoists will ultimately end up in actual democracy or not?
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