Five people were injured in a clash between Chinese nationals and police personnel outside the Nepali central secretariat of Singhadurbar in Kathmandu on Friday, May 8. The Chinese nationals had gathered at the site with ‘We want to go back home’ placards. In the ensuing scuffle, five people—four Chinese nationals and a policeman, DSP Hari Bahadur Basnet—were injured.

 

The protestors, who numbered around 20, had earlier protested near the Nepal Tourism Board, asking Nepal government to take the initiative to send them back to China. The NTB had then asked the Chinese Embassy what to do about the protestors. The embassy answered that the protestors would be repatriated when Beijing gave its green signal, says an NTB source.

It is unclear why China has not taken the initiative to repatriate this lot when it has already taken back thousands of other Chinese nationals from Nepal during the Covid-19 crisis. Just on May 7, China had flown over 300 of its nationals back to their homeland.