Nepal's palace massacre on June 1, 2001 led to the deaths of 10 members of Himalayan kingdom's royal family, including King Birendra and Queen Ashwarya. It was the worst mass killing of royalty since the 1918 murder of Tsar Nicolas of Russia and his family by Bolshevik revolutionaries.

Crown Prince Dipendra, the man blamed for carrying out the shootings, was briefly named monarch after the killings, but he died two days later from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Prince Gyanendra, King Bihendra’s brother, is now head of a country still wracked by shock and mourning. More than a year later many questions still surround the incident -- was it an accident or did a bitter division in the family play a part? And how was the country's government unable to inform or protect a now decimated royal clan? More >>