Talk:Kot massacre

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I added the NPOV tag, when I spotted the phrase "The queen was obviously at fault". What's the source for this claim?

The queen called the audiance because her favorite patron Gagan Thapa was murdered allegedly by Jung Bahadur

Also the claim of thousands dying is much to be disputed. The numbers estimated are as less as 30 nobles.

Actually, the Queen was angry because her lover was Gagan Singh, who was killed in a duel with Jung Bahadur (my Great Great Grandfather). The duel took place because Gagan Singh was the mastermind behind the death of Jung's maternal uncle. The outcome of the Kot massacre was a surprise since the Queen had expected to have the Rana brothers killed that night by other Nepalese nobles, what happened instead was Jung and his six brothers defeated the lot and in total approxiamately 80-90 people were dead. I can't recall how many exactly but I know for sure it wasn't 90 or above, I'll check on that later. Gorkhali 08:37, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright issue resolved

In my opinion, the Library of Congress seems to be a part of the US Federal Government, and its reports are therefore public domain and can be used as a basis.

That said, when quoting sources, it is far better to write it as quotes and reference them using footnotes than simply to copy the text and have a generic reference. The easier it is to see what's quoted and what's not, the better. --Alvestrand (talk) 20:13, 22 November 2007 (UTC)