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News. Last week, deadly protests broke out in Nepal.
Dozens of people were killed and more than 2,000 were injured in clashes with government forces.
The demonstrations were triggered by government decision to ban Facebook,
WhatsApp, Instagram, and other social media platforms.
Authorities said the ban was imposed to tackle fake news and hate speech.
That prompted tens of thousands, many of them teenagers and young adults, to take to the streets.
Because of the sheer number of young people involved in the uprising,
They're being called the Gen Z protests.
You know, we saw tens of thousands of protesters staying on the streets, blocking roads.
They were seen storming government buildings and then setting them on fire,
including, of course, Nepal's parliament building, which we just saw.
The government lifted the social media ban a day later,
but the rallies escalated and morphed into a wider anti-government movement against corruption and youth unemployment.
Within days, Nepal's prime minister resigned, and the army deployed troops to contain the unrest.
A former Supreme Court Chief Justice Shashila Kharki was appointed as interim prime minister.
Parliament was dissolved,
and the president has promised the country would hold elections next March.
Nepal is the latest South Asian country to be rocked by violent anti-government street protests,
driven largely by young people.