Nepal needs development, but not by coercion
Nepal, Oct. 22 -- The country's obsession with bulldozers and excavators as a symbol of development reached an eerie new high yesterday as a viral video sent a chill down people's spines. In the name of building a road in Dashrath Chand Municipality in Baitadi (roads are synonymous with development in Nepal), an excavator was seen gouging into the land even as locals protested and pelted it with stones.
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As the excavator operator pressed forward using brute force in a disoriented manner, the massive machine's toothed bucket knocked down a woman to the ground. What's more, eight other people were injured.
This is sheer madness and it has to stop.
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