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Kids protested social media ban and corruption, government forces open fired killing 16 people in the capital city. Won't put pic here but you can go see in Nepali fb pages of the dead. A school kid that was returning home got shot in the head and died. There were some other high school victims. Total injured was over 300 in a protest largely consisting of 18-28 yr old.

Yeah just took 5 violent hrs for the government to collapse. No one could have expected it either. Knew today was going to be bloody but damn never seen such power of people.

Don't even know if even national media let alone a foreign media can really give today's event a justice. The target were all political elites and even the local media hasn't given proper coverage. Most of the reporting is done through fb pages and independent media house.

There was also a recent trend on social media that overlapped with the ban called 'Nepo Kids' where people share politicians children living in absolute luxury in the west, their lifestyle and products they wear like luxury watch, shoes, etc. That also promoted the anti corruption view in the gen z protest. Living such life with government worker salary is just impossible so just an open question of where did their money came from.

Its Nepal Workers Peasant Party

The communist iconography that was vandalised might be the current ruling party's flag and icon.

And the protest is over to hijacked anymore. There is not much left to destroy or to support.

The power vacuum could be fillied by the independent candidates that rejected party politics due to its ineffectiveness. Everything related to the old system has been torched.

The only remaining group that want power seemed to be monarchist. But that because people wanted change and Royals were different than current system. Now that things have changed, so can't say for sure how popular they will be.

There is still many communist parties but they are all in local level and didnt have enough support like the big three to enter national level. The national level was a game between just three parties with recent rise in independent candidates over affiliated-candidates since people were tired of same dance. Now the two biggest parties are wiped out with the third one Maoist being not welcomed any more.

they have lost all the good-will. Even the current ruling party was United Marxist Leninist. i doubt people will entertain any new communist party, even if everything before wasn't really a communist party. It might just be some left-leaning populist rule now, but better to avoid 'communist' label since most people are sick of it.

I genuinely have no clue. The whole system is a mess that i have been mostly dissociating with the entire thing. I have tried to understand the heads and tails of the system but it feels like the highest form of liberal democracy. Only the face change, everything remains intact. Even though most parties got 'communist' or 'socialist' in their name and a communist flag, don't think there is any real ideological, economic or political commitment from any party except maybe few. I just know one communist party that will be considered communist here.

Social media got banned. When students started protest, government response cause 19 death with +300 injured.

people were always sick with the political system here. But this is unique due to just how unpolitical it was. Having any affiliation with the major party meant you were looked on with suspicion and distrust. Student Unions member/leader resigned from their post to take part today to not appear like they were affiliated with any party.

Thats fair since its how things went. Its called 'Gen z' protest because the instagram page that promoted the protest is called 'Gen.z' and its name is 'Gen z' protest that supposed to mostly include 18-28 yr old

And there is no politics because there isn't any. It started because students wanted access to social media and the government's inability to manage the protest lead to the chaos yesterday. I feel like cops are really trigger happy here, just because its rubber bullets doesn't mean its not dangerous.

They were sidelined by Marxists-Leninist party a year ago. For detailed info

Yeah the social media ban was due to them being unregistered in Nepal. I have no any idea what that means and don't think anyone really does. The whole thing was a clusterfuck with smug politician giving smug answer for the reason behind the ban.

The most coherent answer I read is due to the lack of direct line of communication between the government and the media company, Nepal government wasn't able to gather evidence or obtain relevant information in time for cyber crime investigation. The Information minister wanted the companies to be 'registered' here as in have a office in here which is pretty valid.

Now you have whole population depending on VPNs and the growing dissatisfaction led to Gen Z protest in sept-8 which turn very very bloody leading to today's response.

The whole thing was just kids wanting access to internet and 'corruption' angle was slapped on top since its just supposed to be a peaceful march.

The current government is coalition between Marxist-leninist party (just in name really) and social democrats. The protest wasn't affiliated with any org or a political party so People only carrying flag of Nepal.

Kathmandu Today:

There were clashes between protestors and police all over Nepal ~~but no any death today~~. Currently two dead are reported