Nepal’s PM quits as anti-corruption protests spiral
The Nepal Prime Minister resigned after violent protests against social media platforms and the government’s corruption.
Khadga Prasad Oli said he resigned immediately.
His resignation came after the protesters opened fire on a social media ban on Tuesday, one day after the deadly anti -government protests when the police opened fire and killed 19 people.
Local reports and videos shared on social media showed that protesters attacked the houses of the best political leaders in Kade and around.
In the capital and other cities, curfews were implemented and schools in Kathmandu were closed.
Among the houses thrown into the fire, the largest party Nepal Congress leader Sher Bahadur Deuba, President Ram Chandra Poudel, Interior Minister Ramesh Lekhak and Nepal Maoist Pushpa Kamal Kamal The leader of the Communist Party.
A private school of Deuba’s wife Arzu Ban Rana was set on fire.
The mass protest and attack on parliament on Monday began the opposition of the ban on social media platforms, but fueled by people who blamed them for corruption, due to increasing disappointment and dissatisfaction with political parties.
Despite the vague curfew in the capital, several protests were reported on Tuesday.
In Punish the murders in the government. Stop killing children, ”while the protesters use the loudspeakers of the police calling them to return home.
The anger of the protesters turned to the government, which is increasingly, the non -popular oli.
A few commonly used social networks, including Facebook, X and Youtube, was blocked last week after not following a new requirement to register and present in the Himalayan nation in Himalayan nation.
The rallies against the ban on Monday were swollen against tens of thousands of people in Kathmandu, and the police besieged the parliament building before opening fire to demonstrators. Nineteen people were killed.
“Stop the ban on social media. Stop corruption, not social media,” he damaged, shaking national flags.
Seven of those killed in the protests on Monday and the wounded scores were taken at the National Trauma Center of the country’s main hospital.
Dr. “Many of them seem to have been shot in the head and chest, Bad said Badri Risa.
The families waited for their relatives’ news, and people lined up to donate blood.
Oli said in a statement that he had established an investigation committee to submit a report within 15 days and that he would be compensated for the wounded and lost treatment for the wounded.
Interior Minister Ramesh Lekhak resigned at an emergency cabinet meeting late on Monday.
The Nepal government made a wider attempt with a draft law aimed at making social media’s social media platforms “appropriately managed, responsible and accountable and account”.
Expressing the proposal, censorship and protests online, the government was widely criticized as a tool to punish its rivals.
The bill asks companies to assign a contact point in a contact office or country.
Right groups called the government’s attempt to prevent freedom of expression and freedom of fundamental rights.
The registration requirement was applied to approximately two dozen social networks commonly used in Nepal.
Google, the owner of Youtube; Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp’s parent company meta; And Elon Musk’s X platform did not respond to the requests of the Associated Press.
Tiktok, Viber and three other platforms were registered and operated.
In 2023, Nepal banned Tiktok for breaking the “social harmony, honor and diffuse immoral materials”.
Tiktok’s executives have promised to comply with local laws, including the prohibition of pornographic sites adopted in 2018, the law was abolished in 2024.
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