Incident Reports

Demonstration staged in Kathmandu demanding to list the Khas community as indigenous group

2020-11-22

Members of the Khas community staged a demonstration in Maitighar Mandala of Kathmandu on Sunday, November 22 demanding to list the Khas community as indigenous people and for the formation of a Khas Commission. 

Participants in the protest carried placards with slogans such as listing the Khas community as indigenous, forming a Khas commission, stopping killings and violence, stopping foreign intervention, and stopping corruption in the country.

Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Primary Form Demonstration
Primary Cause Ethnic or caste-based collective tensions
Actor 1 - Number of people n/a
Actor 1 - Affiliations Citizen/Individuals
Actor 1 - Youth na
Actor 2 - Number of people n/a
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Government and civil servants at central level
Actor 2 - Youth na
National/Online Media

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