Who Knew It Was the Army!

From the April 26, 2006 issue of The Economist:

IT WAS Nepal's army that finally called time on King Gyanendra's disastrous attempt at absolutism. Faced with the prospect of either mowing down unarmed demonstrators or seeing the palace stormed, the generals went to the opposition and asked them to form a government on the eve of a huge rally planned for April 25th that would have been in violation of a near-total curfew.

Although foreign diplomats and others were involved, it was almost certainly the army that brought the news to Nepal's deluded sovereign that the game was up.