Nepali Students home from Bangladesh
As of Saturday, according to the foreign ministry, about 800 Nepali students had flown or crossed land borders from Bangladesh to Nepal.
A total of 56 Nepali students departed Bangladesh on Sunday. They went back home due to the violent anti-government protests in Dhaka and other parts of the country. They took a Biman Bangladesh Airlines trip and arrived in Kathmandu.
According to Amrit Bahadur Rai, a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they landed at Tribhuvan International Airport at approximately 11:30 a.m.
“We had anticipated 17 students, but 56 have shown up,” he said. “We have sent ministry representatives to the airport.”
Rai said that the specifics are now unknown due to communication issues with the Nepali embassy in Bangladesh.
Rai claims that “there is no internet at all and a bad phone connection.”
As of Saturday night, approximately eight hundred Nepali students had left Bangladesh for Nepal, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They crossed borders either by land or by air.
In Bangladesh, there has been violent agitation over the past week.
Bangladeshi students increased their demonstrations against government-imposed employment quotas. These quotas included a thirty percent reservation for the kin of those who had fought to free Bangladesh from Pakistan.
Foreign news sources report that the Bangladeshi government has ordered all offices and institutions to close for two days. This decision comes after protests this week resulted in the deaths of over 120 people.
Security forces have set up barricades in Dhaka, the capital city and center of protest, to enforce a curfew.
The Bangladeshi Court has removed the 5% reserve for the warriors’ families in the interim.
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