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The Gen Z revolution is spreading in Asia

Nepal is just the most recent country to have seen the ruling elite toppled by frustrated young people.

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A demonstrator shouting slogans outside Parliament in Kathmandu on Sept 8.

A demonstrator shouting slogans outside Parliament in Kathmandu on Sept 8.

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Andres Schipani

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The streets of Kathmandu are marked by the signs of revolution. The stains of crusted blood on the pavement 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 last week

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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