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Nepal is just the most recent country in Asia where the ruling elite have been toppled by young people fed up with politics as usual and a lack of opportunities.
A protester wearing a police flak jacket and carrying a shield shouts slogans in Kathmandu this month. AP
The streets of Kathmandu are marked by the signs of revolution. The stains of crusted blood on the footpath being washed away by the late monsoon rains; crushed china inside the ransacked residences of politicians; the stench of smoke from torched public buildings.
But it is an inscription with black marker on a marbled wall of the charred parliament building set on fire in Nepal’s capital this month that encapsulates the moment: “From now, only Gen Z youth will be in this place. Corrupt leaders will be sent out of the country. Long Live Nepal. Long Live Gen Z youth.”
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