Nepal's brave youth exposed decades of corrupt nepotism, only to face PM Oli's authoritarian social media ban and brutal state violence. Nineteen young lives — students in uniform — were callously gunned down for demanding accountability from their leaders. Their toppling of Oli's regime proved that democracy's future belongs to those courageous enough to die defendingin defense of it.
The protesters in Kathmandu cloak themselves in the language of freedom, yet their violence betrays only recklessness and manipulation. To burn streets, defy curfews, and spill blood over social media apps is neither courage nor conscience — it is sabotage. These riots reekseem less ofdriven by genuine grievancegrievances than ofby external meddling, which is dragging Nepal into chaos, and jeopardizing its own future.
There's a 50% chance that at least 1.07 billion people will be living in liberal democracies in the world in 2032, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
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