Liza Adhikari, a 20-year-old student, carries the wounds of the “revolution” in her left shoulder. Every day, she goes to physiotherapy to regain movement after a bullet shattered the top of the bone in her upper arm. She was shot on September 8, 2025 — the day when Nepal’s Gen Z movement faced a deadly crackdown for trying to reshape the country’s political arena. “I wasn’t pelting stones. I was arranging water for people around me, and blinded by tear gas when the police opened fire,” Adhikari told DW. The youth-led demonstrations, fueled by popular anger against Nepal’s ruling class […]... Keep on reading: Nepal elections: Gen Z hopes for genuine political reforms