Foreign visitors won’t leave the Simli Forest
Despite being told to depart within 24 hours, foreign citizens from 38 countries—including China, Japan, India, and the United States—have been living illegally in the Simli jungle of Ghodaghodi Municipality-9, Kailali. Only 45 of the 135 foreign countries that were illegally ascending in the jungle have departed after receiving administrative training, and 95 of them remain there. They declare that they will depart the country on April 2, defying the administration’s directives. They decided not to leave the jungle where they were residing right away, and the cops came back empty-handed. On Thursday, the Kailali District Administration Office issued an order to vacate the forest within twenty-four hours.
A team of police went to ask illegally residing foreign nationals to leave the area after several disobeyed formal orders, but all of their repeated pleas were unsuccessful, according to Police Inspector Dirgha Saud, Chief of the Area Police Office, Sukhad. Only on April 2, according to the ward chair of Ghodaghodi Municipality 9, did the foreigners who had collected in the forest decide to leave. The ‘Rainbow Family Gathering’ brought people from many nations to the Simli forest for a few days. However, after entering Nepal on tourist visas, they have not received authorization from any source to remain in the forest. Residents claim that people have been and still do engage in a variety of half-naked behaviors there.
