According to a report by Nepali media outlet Khabarhub, the incident occurred outside the former PM and his wife's residence in Dallu. Protesters reportedly trapped Rajyalaxmi Chitrakar and set the house on fire.
This is being referred to as the Gen-Z Protests by all media, not just the above. It comes from Nepali media (जेन-जे विरोध, literally ‘Gen-J protests’) and possibly has a different tone or connotations in Nepali, I don’t know.
There’s been some discontent in Nepal for a while now, the government being viewed as authoritarian and corrupt.
But what’s kicked this off is the government banning social media apps.
So, all these social media companies had a week to register with the government, because of a new law, but most didn’t. So the government banned them and blocked access (nearly all the big ones - apparently tiktok registered and stayed up, as far as I can tell). This happened on the 4th September.
Some people think that curtailing social media use is a direct attempt to stop people drawing attention to corruption: the leading hashtag in Nepal was apparently ‘#NepoKids’ (as in nepotism). I don’t know if that is in English or in translation though.
Yesterday, on the 8th, there were big protests and demonstrations. It’s hard to get a breakdown of what exactly happened - I don’t speak Nepali - but protesters tried to enter parliament, the military responded with tear gas, and before long 19 protesters had been killed.
This obviously sparked a reaction, and it’s still ongoing. The PM has resigned, some officials have apparently fled or tried to flee the country. Lots of places are being set on fire, including prisons (it seems like prisoners are escaping rather than being burnt alive). Some sites say that the social media apps are back online and unblocked now, I don’t know.
It turns out that a lot of false information was deliberately spread, and several groups in Nepal tried to hijack the demonstrations carried out by Gen-Z. They incited the masses to vandalize and burn buildings.
This is somewhat a bit different from what happened in Indonesia, where armed forces intelligence infiltrated, incited, and mobilized the masses to carry out vandalism.
Word coming out of Nepal is suggesting that this wasn’t / isn’t about social media, it’s just being reframed as such to minimise what’s happening, as if it’s just silly kids (being that it’s Gen z and Gen alpha) who can’t cope without social media. But what happened was the two party system they’ve been running on, since abolishing the monarchy, formed a coalition and then ran everything so as to profit for themselves, and flaunted that lavish lifestyle, while there were no jobs and they’d cut all essential services to the people. People were having to travel to other countries for jobs and send money home for their families. The nepo baby hashtags are the politicians kids, flaunting their lavish lifestyles. The people could have just used vpns, it’s not about the social media ban, main stream media is trying to quash what’s happening in case other people who are currently similarly oppressed, become emboldened by what’s happening in Nepal. Their government is very corrupt.
This is being referred to as the Gen-Z Protests by all media, not just the above. It comes from Nepali media (जेन-जे विरोध, literally ‘Gen-J protests’) and possibly has a different tone or connotations in Nepali, I don’t know.
There’s been some discontent in Nepal for a while now, the government being viewed as authoritarian and corrupt.
But what’s kicked this off is the government banning social media apps.
So, all these social media companies had a week to register with the government, because of a new law, but most didn’t. So the government banned them and blocked access (nearly all the big ones - apparently tiktok registered and stayed up, as far as I can tell). This happened on the 4th September.
Some people think that curtailing social media use is a direct attempt to stop people drawing attention to corruption: the leading hashtag in Nepal was apparently ‘#NepoKids’ (as in nepotism). I don’t know if that is in English or in translation though.
Yesterday, on the 8th, there were big protests and demonstrations. It’s hard to get a breakdown of what exactly happened - I don’t speak Nepali - but protesters tried to enter parliament, the military responded with tear gas, and before long 19 protesters had been killed.
This obviously sparked a reaction, and it’s still ongoing. The PM has resigned, some officials have apparently fled or tried to flee the country. Lots of places are being set on fire, including prisons (it seems like prisoners are escaping rather than being burnt alive). Some sites say that the social media apps are back online and unblocked now, I don’t know.
It turns out that a lot of false information was deliberately spread, and several groups in Nepal tried to hijack the demonstrations carried out by Gen-Z. They incited the masses to vandalize and burn buildings.
This is somewhat a bit different from what happened in Indonesia, where armed forces intelligence infiltrated, incited, and mobilized the masses to carry out vandalism.
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Word coming out of Nepal is suggesting that this wasn’t / isn’t about social media, it’s just being reframed as such to minimise what’s happening, as if it’s just silly kids (being that it’s Gen z and Gen alpha) who can’t cope without social media. But what happened was the two party system they’ve been running on, since abolishing the monarchy, formed a coalition and then ran everything so as to profit for themselves, and flaunted that lavish lifestyle, while there were no jobs and they’d cut all essential services to the people. People were having to travel to other countries for jobs and send money home for their families. The nepo baby hashtags are the politicians kids, flaunting their lavish lifestyles. The people could have just used vpns, it’s not about the social media ban, main stream media is trying to quash what’s happening in case other people who are currently similarly oppressed, become emboldened by what’s happening in Nepal. Their government is very corrupt.
Thanks for the explanation