A state that uses force on the streets is undemocratic. The state should also respect peaceful and constructive demonstrations and protect them with appropriate strategies. Even if performance is not moderated, world-class security protocols and tools should be used to ensure security.
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74 people have died due to the excessive use of force by the state and the arson caused by the protestors, while around 200 people are still being treated in hospitals. This has made the country sad. This level of human loss in two days is unusual.
The country had to pay such a huge price because the government was not sensitive about the use of force and human losses in the previous demonstrations and was not sensitive to reducing the losses. Will the state learn anything from this man-made disaster? That is also a matter of interest.
The weapons used by the police in demonstrations/movements show how insensitive our state is. Because, non-lethal, non-lethal equipment should be provided to control the demonstration from a safety point of view. As far as possible, the army allows the crowd to assemble in a fixed place or to rally or march in a peaceful manner. does the miking. Contain or disperse crowds as needed. Charges the stick.
hits the water fountain. If not, aerial fire, rubber bullets and shrapnel will be fired. In the end, there may be an order to shoot below the knee so as not to kill. This is the general 'protocol'. But 21 people were killed on the first day when the police fired directly at the Gen-G demonstration, most of them were shot in the chest and head, as confirmed by the forensic report of the University Teaching Hospital.
is the practice of deploying forces with non-lethal weapons, keeping lethally armed security personnel as a 'reserve force' for demonstrations and crowd control. But the Nepal government has been deploying police and armed police on the roads with both lethal and non-lethal equipment in such programs.
Nepal's security agencies do not have enough essential equipment such as riot control gear, tear gas, blank fire, rubber bullets, bolty gas guns, water cannons, fire engines, and ambulances for crowd control. Strangely, the government has not bought such non-lethal weapons in the last 10 years, despite repeated warnings by security organizations.
Instead, Nepal Police has been deploying in the field with small or big weapons for peace and security and demonstration management. This has increased the human toll. When this trend is seen time and again, the government is not sensitive.
While taking control of the demonstration held on 13th December 2010 by the young people who were taking the Korean language test, Birendra Shah of Achham and Sujan Rawat of Dailekh were killed by police firing at Balkumari in Lalitpur. Similarly, a local youth, Jaishankar Sah, was killed when the police used deadly force while controlling the demonstration in Sarlahi's Barhathwa on 20th December 2008.
Savin Maharjan of Kirtipur was killed in a three-corner protest on 15 Chait by police firing. It is not possible to devise a strategy to allow such demonstrations to be organized in a safe manner. Instead, they are shot to kill themselves. Every time the excessive use of force causes human casualties, the government and security agencies are criticized. However, there has been no improvement initiative.
The barbaric suppression on 23 August and the looting on 24 August have messed up the balance of the police's weapons. According to the internal details prepared by the Nepal Police, 1276 rifles/pistols have been looted. Similarly, 98 thousand 491 bullets have not been recorded. It is not clear how many of them were driven by the police themselves and how many were robbed.
Similarly, 1,315 rounds of rubber bullets have gone down in the archives. The police could not reveal how many of them were used. The number and condition of the dead and wounded also shows that the police fired excessively. Excessive use of force is itself subject to investigation and prosecution. On the other hand, large quantities of rifles/pistols and ammunitions are a challenge to law and order due to looting.
The society is still feeling the panic as the court is burnt down, the police station is burnt down and the prisoners have escaped. At the same time, the miscalculation of large number of rifles/pistols and bullets adds to the panic. Only on Sunday, the government has formed a competent commission of inquiry, it is necessary to find out the exact details of the weapons and bullets used by the police or looted.
Mainly all parties need to do serious homework to avoid human casualties in future demonstrations/movements. For this, first of all, the state should develop a tendency and system to listen to the voice of the people. A state that forces people to take to the streets for any issue is itself weak.
Even a state that uses force on the streets is undemocratic. The state should also respect peaceful and constructive demonstrations and protect them with appropriate strategies. Even if performance is not moderated, world-class security protocols and tools should be used to ensure security. The trend of shooting people on the streets like 'enemies of war' must stop, only such a state will be strong.
