Young Nepalis led a mass protest in Kathmandu on Monday and have paid for it with bullet wounds or their lives
The whiteboard listing the names of patients at a hospital in central Kathmandu tells the story of a protest gone badly wrong. Beside each name is written their age: 18, 22, 20, 18, 23. The list goes on.
By Wednesday morning there were still scores of Nepal’s young being treated for gunshot wounds and injuries sustained when police opened fire on protesters in Kathmandu on Monday.
Written by Pete Pattisson in Kathmandu
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/10/nepal-gen-z-protests-corruption under the title “‘This is our revolution. It’s our turn now’: Nepal’s ‘gen Z protesters’ speak out against corruption”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
