Thousands of young Nepalis have taken to the streets to protest their government over a ban on social media platforms. The protests have garnered national attention as Prime Minister Sharma Oli resigned, and the Nepali parliament was set on fire.
Rudabeh Shahid, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center, told Newsweek the protests are a "generational reckoning against a culture of political impunity in the South Asian region as a whole."
Why It Matters
Nepal, the Himalayan nation that borders both China and India and is home to 30 million people, has faced years of political upheaval. While the protests directly follow the ban on social media, protesters say years of government corruption and failure to provide young people with economic opportunities are at the heart of the unrest.
At least 22 people have died and hundreds of others have been injured in the unrest.
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