NEW YORK: Human Rights Watch (HRW), a US-based advocacy group, has called on Nepal's interim government led by Prime Minister Sushila Karki to investigate the excessive use of force, as well as arson and mob attacks on people and public properties during the September Gen Z protests.
The advocacy group also called on the current administration to investigate the role of those who may have ordered any unlawful acts.
According to the HRW, police in Kathmandu indiscriminately opened fire on protesters multiple times over three hours on September 8 during the Gen Z protests, killing 17 people who had been demonstrating against political corruption and a sweeping social media ban imposed four days earlier.