“Like We Are Not Nepali”

Many of the houses in this area, as well as the Monastic Higher Secondary English
Boarding School, show bullet marks. According to numerous witnesses, the police fired at
the houses where residents were giving water to the protesters. Two witnesses alleged to
Human Rights Watch that a man giving water to the protesters from inside his own
compound was shot and injured.
Some protesters fled into a three-hectare grassy open space behind this row of houses,
which is a disused rice mill. The elderly priest of a small temple in a walled compound in
the area described attempting to shelter protesters and being beaten by the police.
I was in the temple with both doors shut. There are two doors, one on the
south and one on the north. Three boys jumped inside the temple
compound. I said to them, “Why did you come here. The police can catch
you here. Better go to the eastern side. There you will see some bushes
where you can hide.” Two boys jumped to that side. They sat under a
bakash tree. The police came there and searched for those boys but didn’t
find them. The police came to the temple. They asked me to open the door.
I said, “Why should I open the door?” The police said, “Some people are
hiding here. Quickly open the door otherwise I will break it down.” I was
scared and opened the door, after which the police hit me with a lathi on
my head. One boy was in the temple. The police took him away. They were
APF. The boy was 12 to 13. He was called Dharmanath Sah.
According to four separate eyewitnesses, police shot and killed another boy, Nitu Yadav,
14, who was attempting to hide in some bushes on the western edge of the Mills Area open
ground. In the words of one witness,
We saw a child chased by police. That child hid behind some bushes. The
police caught him by his hands, put him on the ground, and shot a bullet in
his head. When police put the child on the ground the child didn’t speak a
word. They shot him in the head, kicked him, and the police went back. The
police had masked their faces. They were wearing black armor. [When they
shot him] the police put a foot on the child’s thigh. The police were saying,
“Shoot this motherfucker [Tok machiknilai].”
39 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | OCTOBER 2015