Nepal's Maoist rebels are determined to see the back of the monarchy and are unlikely to give up their weapons until the king has gone for good, the Maoist second-in-command has said. "The king is down but not out. He has all the privileges, he has all the money, billions of dollars... The army is still loyal to him," Baburam Bhatterai said in an interview on Tuesday. "There is tremendous pressure from the masses of the people not to lay down the arms until and unless the feudal system and the monarchy is abolished.”