KATHMANDU (Reuters) -Amid the lights, kite-flying and gatherings to celebrate Nepal’s 15-day festival of Dashain this year, the homes of families such as the Chaulagains are shrouded in grief for their son, killed in the country’s worst civil unrest in recent memory.

“Dashain is supposed to be filled with happiness, but this year I only feel sadness,” said 53-year-old Ganesh Prasad Chaulagain, who lost his son, Shreeyam, 18, in the political turmoil that convulsed the Himalayan nation last month.

He was speaking in the echoing silence of the family’s home in Kathmandu, the capital, as music and the scent of festival feasts filled the surrounding streets.

The high school student was shot in the head on September 8 near parliament after he joined in a peaceful anti-graft protest that spir

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