Kathmandu, Sept. 17 -- After finishing Grade 7, Dipesh Milan Sunuwar left his home in Sindhuli in search of a better life in Kathmandu. He had for the past few years been working with the cleaning department of Lalitpur Metropolitan City.

He was sustaining not just himself with his earnings but also sending money to his family back home where his parents, grandparents and his younger brother lived.

On September 8, the first day of the Gen Z uprising in Kathmandu, 19 protesters were killed in what has been widely condemned as a brutal government crackdown. Shocked and angered by the bloodshed, Sunuwar decided to join the protest the very next day.

He never returned.

Sunuwar was shot in the chest during the demonstration and rushed to C...