By Abuchi Obiora
Only about nineteen people died as more than three hundred others got different degrees of injuries from bullet wounds in the recent successful Nepalese revolution.
Why only nineteen, you may ask?
The reason is that the crowd of youths , the GEN Z’s persevered to the point that the security agents, seeing that their lives were at stake, had to either run for their lives because their ammunition was expended or submit and join the crowd.
The psychology of this which other oppressed African youths have not yet articulated is that the security agents, who are human beings with families in the same oppressive system, who also care for their lives, have, where they are always stationed, minimum ammunition per gun to spend and wouldn’t be able to access a reinforcement after expending their loaded live ammunition before the enraged and surging crowd swoops on them.
The reason the security agents have minimum ammunition per person in their stationed positions is because one of the international rules of engagement in the restoration of peace within a civilian enclave, not yet declared as a war zone, is that the law enforcement agents don’t carry munitions more than may be loaded in their weapons.
The second important rule of engagement required for a non-lethal repression of civil protests in a civilian enclave not yet declared as a war zone is that the protesters MUST not be seen to carry weapons against the controlling security agents.
The tactic therefore in achieving success in such protests is to minimize the occupation time by surging on to the security agents fast and not allowing them enough time to expend their munitions or at worst, have a minimum casualty rate as a result of the partial success that the security agents may have had in the use of their weapons.
I have obtained so many video clips of the Nepalese revolution and discovered that those Nepalese youths must have had some training in using SPEED to LESSEN casualty rate in forcing the security agents to either flee or submit.
I compared the video clips I watched with those of the protests of some failed revolutions in Africa (which I have also carefully and most scrupulously watched the video clips) and saw the marked difference between the speed in pursuit and execution of the Nepalese protesters with those other protests that failed to transform into revolutions in Africa.
The little but definitive difference in resilience and speed by the protesters in Nepal therefore made it possible for an impromptu and casual protest engineered by the passionate speech of an innocent but aggrieved sixteen year old Nepalese teenager to spiral into a revolution that eventually liberated the lives and fortunes of more than twenty nine million Nepalese who had long been subjected to abject poverty and penury.
Abuchi Obiora is an Author, Journalist and Media Consultant
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