Nepal protests on the repair of social networks of anger, which caused the prime minister

Katmandú – Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, announced Tuesday that he would resign as the country was shaken for a second day of disturbances in the middle Protests on a reproduced ban on many important social networks Platforms The clashes between young protesters and the police became violent on Monday, and the police allegedly killed 19 people.

The protesters in the capital of Nepal challenged a curfew on Tuesday to continue venting their anger in the government a day after the mortal repression.

The protests, which began on Monday with the demands that the government lifted a prohibition of social networks and addresses corruption, revived despite the applications allow to be online again.

Katmandú police spokesman Shekhar Khanal said several groups had refused to obey a curfew on Tuesday, telling News that there were protesters in the streets in many areas, including “fire cases and attacks.”

Some went to the properties of politicians and government buildings, according to an News photographer and local media reports. According to News, the houses of the leader of the largest political party in the country, the Nepali Congress, together with President Ram Chandra Poudel, Interior Minister, Ramesh Lekhak and the leader of the Communist Party of Nepal, were among those burned. A private school owned by the Minister of Foreign Affairs was also burned.

Prime Minister Oli, 73, had ordered investigation into violence and on Tuesday said he would direct conversations to all parties in an attempt to achieve a “significant conclusion” to violence. But not long after, the local media said he was renouncing, and the Reuters news agency cited his assistant Prakash Silwal as confirming the news.

The Interior Minister resigned on Monday, according to a government statement, while two other members of the cabinet had previously resigned on Tuesday, according to the Nepalese media.

“The social media platforms have been opened, which was among the demands of generation Z,” said the News of the Minister for Communication of Prithvi Gurung, which refers to young people to a large extent mostly of the 20 years who have led the protests.

What are protests in Nepal?

The prohibition of social networks fed the existing anger towards the government in a country with a youth lump. People aged 15 to 40 represent almost 43% of the population, according to government statistics, while unemployment is around 10% and GDP per capita in just $ 1,447, according to the World Bank.

The slogans that demand the responsibility of the authorities have been a characteristic in the protests.

“Almost 20 people were killed by the State, which shows the scale of police brutality,” the 23 -year -old student Yujan Rajbhandari said on Tuesday, who participated in the demonstrations one day before, on Tuesday. “The Government … has to take responsibility for the lives that were lost.”

Several social media sites, including Facebook, YouTube and X, were blocked on Friday in the Nation of the Himalayas of 30 million people, after the Government reduced access to 26 platforms that, he said, had not been recorded as required. In addition to the formal registration, the Government had required the platforms to publish a local link in Nepal.

Amnesty International said that live ammunition was used against protesters on Monday, and the United Nations demanded rapid and transparent investigation.

The police in Katmandú faced Monday with the crowds when the protesters pushed through the barbed wire and tried to assault in a restricted area near Parliament. Seventeen people were killed in Katmandú, police said, and two more in the east district of Sunscari, according to local media.

Police said about 400 people were injured, including more than 100 police officers.

Since Friday, the videos that contrast the struggles of ordinary Nepalese with the children of politicians who flaunt luxury products and expensive vacations have become viral in Tiktok, which was not blocked.

Popular platforms such as Instagram have millions of users in Nepal who trust them for entertainment, news and businesses. Others trust messages for messages.

“It’s not just about social networks, it is confidence, corruption and a generation that refuses to remain silent,” wrote the Katmandú Post newspaper. “The Z generation grew with smartphones, global trends and promises of a federal and prosperous Nepal.”

“For them, digital freedom is personal freedom,” said the newspaper. “Cutting access feels like silencing an entire generation.”

Nepal has restricted access to popular online platforms in the past, even to Telegram in July, citing an increase in online fraud. He raised a nine -month prohibition of Tiktok last year after the platform agreed to comply with the Nepali regulations.

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