Over 200 people of Nepali origin displaced during the violent activities in Meghalaya entered Nepal in order to save their lives.
More than 200 Nepali speaking people who had been living in the northeastern state of India, on Tuesday entered Nepal through the Kakarbhitta checkpoint, according to the National
News Agency (RSS).
The people fled Meghalaya after the ethnic Khasis of the state ordered them to leave the village they have been living.
Over a dozen Nepali speaking people have been killed in the recent ethnic violence in Meghalaya.
"We managed to flee after a series of attacks on the Nepali speaking population there", said Shambhu Rai, 45, a local of Sunsari's Dharan who had been working in a coal mine in Meghalaya.
"Today only five buses of Nepali people entered Nepal, he
added. We were confined indoors for three days, while we made a plan to return to Nepal over the telephone", Rai said. Most of the Nepalese who returned originally hailed from Gaighat,
Dhankuta, Biratnagar and Jhapa.
A few days ago, Khasis had killed 17 Nepalis, spreading panic among the people of Nepali origin and prompting them to flee from Meghalaya.
On Sunday, the Nepali Embassy in New Delhi took up the issue with the Indian government. Around 15,000 Nepali speaking population had been forced by the Khasis to leave Meghalaya.
Maoist spokesman Sharma had issued a statement asking the "concerned government to guarantee the safety and rights of Nepali-speaking Indian nationals" in the wake of the killing of Nepali origin people in Meghalaya.
"We have repeatedly spoken against the oppression of Nepalese speaking people living in the North-Eastern region of India and for their linguistic and national rights," he said in the statement.