Unsuccessful attempts were made to implement reforms and a constitution during the 1960s and 1970s . An economic crisis at the end of the 1980s led to a popular movement which brought about parliamentary elections and the adoption of a constitutional monarchy in 1990 . The 1990s saw the beginning of the Nepalese Civil War ( 1996 – 2006 ) , a conflict between government forces and the insurgent forces of the Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ) . The situation for the Nepalese monarchy was further destabilised by the 2001 Nepalese royal massacre , in which Crown Prince Dipendra reportedly shot and killed ten people , including his father King Birendra , and was himself mortally wounded by what was allegedly a self-inflicted gunshot
Nepalese royal massacre
Nepalese royal massacre
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