Kathmandu, Sept. 9 -- Prominent voices-writers, doctors, artists, former bureaucrats, among others, who have been closely monitoring Monday's Gen-Z protest and ensuing carnage-have warned the government and political parties not to underestimate grievances of youths.

Monday's developments is an outburst of accumulated frustrations of youths caused by corruption, bad governance, abuse of power, and the arrogance of the successive governments and political parties, they say.

"The leaders think that they can do anything when they have a majority in Parliament," said Dr Arun Sayami, former dean of the Institute of Medicine. "Today's youths are not their slaves. Stop acting like King Gyanendra [who was ousted from power in 2008] and remove r...