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Nepal descends into chaos as protests turn deadly, citizens take control of country (tass.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml to c/worldnews@lemmygrad.ml

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The current government was led by the Communist Party of Nepal. Protests claim to be about Nepal trying to limit access to Western social media. Sounds like a Western operation to me.

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[–] Comprehensive49@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Of course, these two things can both be true, but the US-backed color revolutionaries are louder due to their funding. Nepal's geography sort of dooms it to being a shithole unless China pours a ton of money into it, which they haven't gotten around to yet.

Thus, this is just like the Hong Kong protests, where some of the protesters were legitimately pissed over high living costs, which was not really a problem caused by the Chinese, but rather the native Hong Kong government. And then the U.S.-backed color revolutionaries stirred it up into way bigger shit by just conducting tons of domestic terrorism.

Once the Nepal-China railway is finished tunneling through the Himalayas, Nepali lives will get better. Let's just hope that this color revolution doesn't ruin that opportunity forever.

[–] Commiejones@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

Oh there are reasons for young Nepalese to protest but how do you go from no protests to burning down people's homes with them inside in days?