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.
If we’re at the point where politicians are being killed and fleeing the country, we might be moving past mere “riots” and into civil war territory.
I haven’t seen any reports on whether there’s an organized opposition, I expect that’ll be the key to turning this into some sort of positive change rather than a paroxysm of violence followed by even more extreme repression.
Edit: I went and did a little digging. There are opposition parties, but many of them are apparently just as entrenched into the network of corruption that these protests are about at their root. There’s one newer party, the Rastriya Swatantra Party, that could potentially be an actual “anti-establishment” party. But it’s untested, nobody knows how genuine their stance is. Otherwise peoples’ hopes seem to be left in the hands of a collection of smaller regional and ethnic parties that’ll have to suddenly find a lot of unity to pull off any reforms.
The Nepali army is also a major factor, we’ll have to see what “side” they end up backing.
I went and did a little digging. There are opposition parties
Tnx for your digwork. Haven’t done that myself now.
What I do remember from some older tv documentary was basically that Chinese Gvement was using local politicians for greater CCP dogma into Nepal via schoolchildren books. Locals mentioned the fear of the eradication of Nepalese culture and lenguage, iirc.
" According to the Chinese embassy in Nepal, there are more than 900 Mandarin teachers in Nepal who are already teaching the language in various parts of the country. Additionally, China is also promoting its films, arts, and culture in Nepal through various means"
If we’re at the point where politicians are being killed and fleeing the country, we might be moving past mere “riots” and into civil war territory.
I haven’t seen any reports on whether there’s an organized opposition, I expect that’ll be the key to turning this into some sort of positive change rather than a paroxysm of violence followed by even more extreme repression.
Edit: I went and did a little digging. There are opposition parties, but many of them are apparently just as entrenched into the network of corruption that these protests are about at their root. There’s one newer party, the Rastriya Swatantra Party, that could potentially be an actual “anti-establishment” party. But it’s untested, nobody knows how genuine their stance is. Otherwise peoples’ hopes seem to be left in the hands of a collection of smaller regional and ethnic parties that’ll have to suddenly find a lot of unity to pull off any reforms.
The Nepali army is also a major factor, we’ll have to see what “side” they end up backing.
Tnx for your digwork. Haven’t done that myself now.
What I do remember from some older tv documentary was basically that Chinese Gvement was using local politicians for greater CCP dogma into Nepal via schoolchildren books. Locals mentioned the fear of the eradication of Nepalese culture and lenguage, iirc.
Add: found this link
" According to the Chinese embassy in Nepal, there are more than 900 Mandarin teachers in Nepal who are already teaching the language in various parts of the country. Additionally, China is also promoting its films, arts, and culture in Nepal through various means"