Gen Z’s Betrayal: Pawns of External Playbooks – Destroying Today, proving unfit for tomorrow
Nepal’s unrest has exposed the mask of youthful heroism. Each day, footage exposes looting, vandalism, and arson. The very youth who claim to rally for “anti-corruption” cannot even control the chaos they unleash. Yet, they stand on podiums declaring themselves champions of the people, blind to the truth that their own hands are stained — not with money, but with the corruption of duty, discipline, and responsibility. Before pointing fingers at others, they must first confront the mirror.
From the Colored Revolutions in Europe to the Arab Spring and the so-called Asian Spring, one fact is clear: youth are recruited, funded, trained, and deployed with slogans designed to inflame. They are hyped as heroes through speeches and social media theatrics, but once the fire is lit, they vanish. Youth reinforcements fuel outrage from safe havens abroad, while the real victims are ordinary citizens. And when the dust settles, it is never these “youth leaders” who govern — they are discarded pawns, replaced by another hand-picked team for the next agenda.
Their mission is not to build, but to burn. Once the chaos is ignited and the state brought to its knees, leaders flee, their role ends. They fade into obscurity, leaving behind a trail of destruction, while those who engineered the disorder unveil a different, hand-picked team to seize power. They call for justice from the leaders but why have none of these youths been held to account by the justice system for the arson and damage they have caused?
The cycle repeats — nations weakened, societies divided, futures stolen.
The youth that became “stars” in every youth revolt from Europe to Middle East, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Indonesia are not to be seen. Nepal’s youth leaders will equally disappear too. Sri Lanka however had one “jeenie akka” and a “motivation appachchi” and a Pathum – where are they now?
Nepal’s Gen Z have now repeated this same betrayal. Under the banner of “anti-corruption,” they torched buses, ransacked government offices, destroyed vital public records, looted shops, that left 19 people dead. They even set fire to Nepal’s Supreme Court, burning land deeds, pensions, school certificates, and files critical to citizens’ lives. Hotels, businesses, and shops — some uninsured — were reduced to ashes, leaving workers jobless and families destitute.
The mental pattern was unmistakable: jealousy, envy, revenge, and hatred.
Their driving motto seemed to be — “If I cannot have, you shall not either.”
Instead of striving to improve their own lives, they chose the path of destruction, robbing others of what they possessed.
If wealth had been stolen, there were legal avenues to hold the guilty accountable. But storming homes, destroying property, beating people, stripping them of their clothes, and humiliating them in public is not justice. It is barbarism. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BNVZEcmxu/
This is not reform, it is vandalism disguised as revolution.
And if their same ruthless logic were applied to hold the youth accountable for the national loss they have caused — would they accept their fate?
Nepal’s youth did not rise to lead; they rose to ruin.
By wrecking the present, they have disqualified themselves from any claim to the future. The same goes for all the so-called youth who led riots in other nations.
This is not leadership — it is destruction.
A generation that ruins today cannot claim to inherit tomorrow.
Once the chaos is ignited, the first set of “hired hands” — the youth mobilized to burn, loot, and destabilize — complete their role. History shows that they are then discarded. Baton is passed on to a different hired team.
The planners always prepare a second set of operatives to take over, knowing that the first set will comply for money or ideology.
Thus, hired hands 1 – the youth are neutralized or sidelined; they are expendable.
But the damage they caused is irreversible.
The nation bleeds, the streets burn, and the youth are left to vanish into obscurity, while the real agenda marches forward.
The Cost of Gen Z’s Betrayal in Nepal
We have questions for all these youth movements to answer
- Public Property Destroyed
- Will youth pay for the buses, government buildings, and public utilities that were burned?
- Will youth rebuild schools and courts where vital public records — land deeds, pensions, and certificates — were turned to ash?
- Will youth restore the priceless historical documents and archives that cannot be replaced?
- Livelihoods Stolen
- Will youth compensate daily wage earners who lost their income when roads were blocked and shops looted?
- Will youth repay shop owners, especially those without insurance, for goods and property destroyed?
- Will youth provide jobs for hotel workers, restaurant staff, and employees of businesses such as Nepal’s Hilton Hotel that were gutted by flames? https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1AkH7tzwEP/
- Human Suffering Inflicted
- Will youth take responsibility for the hundreds injured — some permanently disabled — during clashes or for the 19 killed?
- Will youth leaders visit these grieving families and offer restitution, or will they vanish into the shadows like their counterparts in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia?
- Economic Collapse Triggered
- Will youth compensate the state for the loss of revenue from tourism and business disruption – transport, trade and other means of revenue for the State?
- Will youth pay the investors and small entrepreneurs now forced into bankruptcy because of their “anti-corruption” protests?
- Will the youth bear responsibility for the inflation, shortages, and price hikes that will follow unrest?
- Moral Responsibility
- If corruption was the excuse to flood the streets, why did their “solution” become looting, arson, and destruction – destroying historic & iconic monuments that were part and parcel of Nepal’s pride & history?
- How does stealing goods from shops or burning offices fight corruption – is the world not laughing at Nepal seeing the footage?
- When history records this uprising, will youth be remembered as reformers — or as pawns who sold their nation’s future for chaos?
The Moral Collapse of Gen Z Protestors
- Disrespect Toward Elders
- Where is the culture of reverence for elders that has guided Asian and Eastern civilizational societies for generations?
- Why were elderly citizens and officials shouted down, insulted, and humiliated in public by these so-called youths?
- What or who gave them the power to raise their hands at elders, based on social media clips circulated to fuel hatred?
- Will they apologize to the parents and grandparents whose dignity they trampled while claiming to “fight corruption”?
- If youth claim politicians or others are corrupt, why did they not raise funds — even from the same foreign sources that trained them to revolt — to take the accused before a court of law? Is this not better than destroying an entire nation?
https://x.com/TheMorningLK/status/1965815028730196053 (Nepal school principal abused by students)
We challenge the youths in other nations — already being lined up to stir unrest and unleash similar chaos — to first prove their courage in courts of law by taking the corrupt before judges, instead of dragging innocent people to the streets and destroying an entire nation.
- Ridiculing the Armed Forces
- What right do these youths have to jeer, mock, and shout at men and women who serve and defend the nation?
- Who gave them the license to ridicule soldiers and police officers sworn to protect the very freedom these youth abuse?
- Do they understand that an army mocked is an army weakened — and a weakened army means a vulnerable nation?
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- Abandoning Duty for Slogans of Rights
- Why do they scream about “rights” while ignoring their most basic duty — to respect the state, the elders, and the defenders of the nation?
- Can those who destroy courts, torch buses, and attack institutions that bring revenue to the Nation claim a moral right to demand anything from society?
- A generation that neglects duties has no ground to demand rights.
Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and now Nepal stands as a warning.
Youth who destroy the present cannot claim the moral right to lead the future.
They have shown themselves not as saviors, but as pawns — and pawns can never be kings or leaders.
Shenali D Waduge
