Will Nepal’s protests ease following the prime minister’s resignation and deadly clashes with police? Michael Jabri Pickett, Managing Director of This Is Dubai, reflects. #Nepal
00:00Michael, we can't deny the pictures we've just seen in Patrick Fox's report there are absolutely shocking.
00:07But is there any sort of sign of these protests easing?
00:11And we do know that protesters obviously lost their lives.
00:16You know, whenever you see security forces with batons and shields running away from the crowds,
00:24you know it's a bad situation.
00:26And that's a lot of what we saw over the last 24 hours.
00:31I don't think that there's any sign or indication that things are going to slow down.
00:36The reason is it's systemic corruption that's at the heart of it.
00:42The social media ban, that was I think what triggered a lot of it.
00:47But there are too many issues that have affected too many people for far too long.
00:54So unemployment is far too high.
00:56It's at about 12 percent.
00:58And the corruption.
00:59And the corruption.
01:00And, you know, one government leaves and the new government comes in and they play the game to keep themselves in power for as long as possible.
01:09But nothing has really changed.
01:10It's the cliche that gets leveled at a lot of governments around the world, which is they're just doing what they can to maintain the status quo as long as they're part of the status quo.
01:22It's the cliche that gets leveled at a lot of governments around the world, which is what they can to maintain the status quo as long as they're part of the status quo as long as they're part of the status quo as long as they're part of the status quo.
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