{"id":74145,"date":"2025-09-10T21:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/10\/nepal-gen-z-protests-corruption"},"modified":"2025-09-10T21:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:32:11","slug":"this-is-our-revolution-its-our-turn-now-nepals-gen-z-protesters-speak-out-against-corruption-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74145","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is our revolution. It\u2019s our turn now\u2019: Nepal\u2019s \u2018gen Z protesters\u2019 speak out against corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young Nepalis led a mass protest in Kathmandu on Monday and have paid for it with bullet wounds or their lives<\/p>\n<p>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 ages; 18, 22, 20, 18, 23. The list goes on.<\/p>\n<p>By Wednesday morning there were still scores of Nepal\u2019s young being treated for gunshot wounds and injuries sustained when police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/08\/nepal-bans-26-social-media-sites-including-x-whatsapp-and-youtube\">opened fire on protesters<\/a> in Kathmandu on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/10\/nepal-gen-z-protests-corruption\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Nepalis led a mass protest in Kathmandu on Monday and have paid for it with bullet wounds or their livesThe whiteboard listing the names of patients at a hospital in central Kathmandu tells the story of a protest gone badly wrong. Beside each nam&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4363,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[241,80,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nepal","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74150,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74145\/revisions\/74150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}